Director Content Management

**_This opportunity is available at our Gaithersburg, MD (USA), Gothenburg (Sweden), Macclesfield (UK) and Barcelona (Spain) locations._**

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to transform Clinical Development and Healthcare Delivery, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most. Digital Health R&D is reimagining how we work to position AstraZeneca as an industry leader, making the development & delivery of new medicines easier. We’re doing this by harnessing the latest digital innovations working with patients, clinicians and our teams to design and build the technology and working practices at scale.

We are accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we deliver the best in leading-edge technology capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.

The Digital Patient Health & Innovation function is part of Digital Health R&D and works across 4 key areas by defining our digital health strategies, developing and deploying novel endpoints as well as digital patient solutions to support our full R&D clinical development and commercial drug portfolios in partnership with R&D and IT teams. Our mission is to:

- Transform clinical development, through development of patient and site centric digital solutions that improve access to clinical trials for all patients, whilst delivering faster and more efficiently for both site and sponsor
- Improve outcomes for our patients and trials through remote data collection and patient support, providing enriched data sets to support regulatory submissions and differentiated labelling
- Partner with the healthcare industry to determine how digital technologies can improve diagnosis, access to treatments and outcomes for patients with CKD, Heart Failure and COPD, including remote diagnosis tools and multi-modal healthcare data and AI approaches
- Optimise real world medication use by patients and deliver digital interventions to improve clinical outcomes with our medicines

The Director Content Management will lead a team of Content Managers to deliver and implement content management strategies, optimized processes, and excellent delivery to support both core product development and study deployment. The role will work with other content related SMEs to deliver a content strategy for development and implementation as well as re-use of content in DPS products. The role will work closely with technical specialist around digital content management systems and digital asset management processes.

**Your key accountabilities will be**:

- Lead the Content Managers and assign relevant resources and skills to the relevant development squads or Study onboarding teams.
- Develop and optimize our content management process and to be efficient and a high degree of re-usability between studies/products
- Secure high-quality deliveries from the Content Management community into product development and deployment
- Define and agree technical requirements for content related systems like CMS, DAM, etc
- Collaborate with SMEs to develop and deliver a Content Strategy
- Responsible for stimulating conceptual thinking and creativity and challenging the status quo for continuous improvement.
- Maintain a deep understanding of business needs and users’ needs to craft the processes, solution and prioritise improvement needs associated with Content Management.
- Take on all aspects of Line Management including Recruit, Retain & Develop personnel and Manage performance including feedback and rewards
- Resource planning and assignment of task in group
- Support DPS Technology LT with input and develop the Product development capabilities in the organisation
- Facilitate skills and capability training to personnel to support their development
- Ensure personnel have been trained and work within compliance of ethics, company policies and standard procedures
- Role model and embed a performance driven culture and coach staff for optimum performance
- Develop and nurture capabilities of our present and future AZ leaders
- Provide expertise and direction to support direct reports with proactive problem/risk identification, solution building and issue resolution to facilitate achievement of objectives on time and to appropriate quality
- Lead and/or co-lead major initiative(s) for process improvements
- Promote and encourage innovation and creativity
- Ensure quality and compliance to External Regulations and AZ Standards
- Work across the Hubs to develop global efficient ways-of-working
- Provide expert input into functional and cross-functional global processes

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree with 5 years or more experience in a Content Management position ideally from a start-up environment
- Great understanding of the Product development process and deployment of digital solutions to clinical trials.
- Well-developed Project Management skill to be able to support and de