Learning & Development Director, Digital Health

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to transform healthcare, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most. Now we are further accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we demonstrate the best in new technology and ground-breaking capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.

Digital Health, is the convergence of healthcare with technology, data, and analytics with the aim to transform the healthcare industry and improve human health.

At AstraZeneca, we’ve been working hard to make this a reality, we have accumulated years of experience enabling to embed digital health at scale in our business and lead with our digital patient

solutions.

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to redefine healthcare outcomes for patients. The Digital Health R&D strategy incorporates 4 key areas, underpinned by longitudinal and multimodal global data:

- Area 1 - Transform Our Core Business o drive business value
- Area 2 - Enhance patient and healthcare experience
- Area 3 - Augment Outcomes through earlier diagnosis and patient solutions
- Area 4 - Reimagine Healthcare through digital care pathways end to end

The Digital Health Office is an integrated, objective team, uniquely positioned to supervise the planning, governance, and performance of Digital Health R&D. The role of Learning & Development Director, Digital Health will report to the Head of Digital Health Office.

The Learning & Development Director will play a key role in shaping and delivering the learning strategy for Digital Health and coordinating learning across our key collaborator communities through appropriate “train the trainer” programmes. This experienced professional is expected to make critical contributions to making AZ a great place to work and be able to drive tangible business outcomes that demonstrate the impact of learning to the organisation. The successful individual will be able to work independently to deliver high quality learning interventions in ambiguous, fast paced settings. The successful individual will be highly collaborative and resourceful; able to quickly identify the right learning opportunities for the business, work effectively with and across the R&D enterprise and deliver prioritised L&D projects.

**Typical Accountabilities**:

- Partner with Digital Health business leaders to conduct effective learning diagnosis of business and learner needs and translate into practical development strategy and learning plans.
- Owner for the Digital Health content on the AZ Degreed learning platform; responsible for maintaining and updating content to meet current and future business needs. Align with the R&D / AZ approach to ensure a positive, seamless learner experience.
- Commissions and oversees the design and build of learning content with preferred external strategic partners, vendors or institutions and ensures delivery to agreed business specifications.
- Represents Digital Health on the R&D wide L&D Functional Learning Leads team, bringing a strong voice of the business to evolve the R&D learning strategy and pulling through the R&D L&D frameworks and initiatives for business benefit.
- Strengthens and builds L&D capability in the function by active participation in the R&D Learning Guild (R&D Community of L&D Practitioners) and supports capability development of L&D and technical staff involved in delivering learning solutions.
- Build appropriate training programmes to support key customer and partner groups across R&D to learn and embed Digital Health solutions. Leads “train the trainer” solutions across these teams to enable successful training delivery for the future with appropriate review and follow up.
- Actively engages the learner audience, conducting regular voice of the employee exercises, using social platforms (e.g., workplace) and organising / facilitating learning engagement activities both internal to Digital Health and across the broader R&D community.
- Oversees and manages learning plans for compliance-based Digital Health Cornerstone training, working with Business Learning Leads and the R&D Learning Technology Management team to ensure the appropriate level of consistency, quality and regulatory requirements are met in this space.
- Is responsible for the Digital Health onboarding approach, using the HR global onboarding tools, R&D foundational materials to ensure an impactful and seamless experience for new employees.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience (7 plus years’ experience preferred)
- Higher level qualifications or accreditations in learning and