Data Office Business Partner (CVRM)

Would you like to be a part of a Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DS&AI) group who has direct strategic impact on drug development, playing a key role in getting medicines to patients?

We are looking for a Data Office Business Partner to join our DS&AI group. You will be a part of R&D Data Office and focus on the Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM) therapy area. In this leadership position, you work in the Data Provisioning team where you will be accountable for ensuring that Data Office services are providing value to CVRM. This position will be based at out vibrant R&D site in Gothenburg, Sweden.

AstraZeneca is investing heavily in data management and analysis capabilities, through its long-term Growth Through Innovation Strategy. The DS&AI team collaborates across R&D to drive innovation through data science and AI. Together we seek to:

* Improve our understanding of disease and uncovering new targets
* Transform R&D processes
* Speed the design and delivery of new medicines

The R&D Data Office, within DS&AI, is a key organisation to deliver upon AstraZeneca's strategy. Data Office operates a central capability, with global, R&D wide accountability, to ensure that we harness the power of data to drive innovative science. Data Office will govern data, drive data quality and ensure our data is readied for analytics, crafting paved-paths for scientists to perform research driven by data, without compromising our legal restrictions or ethical principles.

What you´ll do:
In this position, you will use your business partnering strategies, scientific knowledge and portfolio oversight skills to accelerate and enable data science to support the development of innovative medicines. Your activities will involve understanding customer's needs, research strategies and objectives, developing a deep appreciation of value that the Data Office can deliver to CVRM research.

Using your consultancy skills, knowledge and professional judgement, you will ensure that major new flows of work are understood, triaged and prioritized, to form a portfolio of data provisioning projects that you will own. Your portfolio will be executed by coordinators within a project office in the Data Provisioning team, and through your oversight and guidance, you will be accountable for successful customer-outcomes. Your will directly enable CVRM research, allowing AstraZeneca to create new medicines for patients worldwide.

Typical Accountabilities

* Act as a primary point of contact, partner and champion for the CVRM therapy area (up to VP level), to understand their research strategies and associated data needs.
* Perform high-level assessment (feasibility, readiness to deliver etc) from customer research plans, new requests and strategic aims to develop a portfolio of prioritized projects.
* Collaboration with stakeholders and leaders to develop compelling and strategically aligned business cases that will deliver to the data-science needs of CVRM.
* Liaise with project coordinators who will be responsible for delivery activities, guiding and supporting their delivery of particularly complex, larger-scoped and high-priority projects.
* Participate in Data Office and Data Provisioning team initiatives to continually improve our services and delivery for CVRM partners and helping to reimagine our services and processes as our business evolves.

Essentials in this role:

* Significant experience working in pharmaceuticals R&D or related scientific industry.
* Demonstrable experience working in a data management or data-science related leadership position.
* Experienced influencer, with expert relationship and business partnering skills up to senior leadership level.
* Experience in and knowledge of CVRM medical research.
* Knowledge and understanding of the value from application of data science in the R&D domain would be a significant advantage
* Knowledge of scientific data domains (e.g., RWD, clinical, 'omic, molecule, non-clinical models) that contribute to drug discovery and development highly desirable.
* Project portfolio management skills or qualifications would be an advantage
* The ability to travel both domestically and internationally.

Does this sound like the job and work place for you? Apply now!

We look forward to your position no later than 16th August, 2020.

Why AstraZeneca Gothenburg?
Our stunning campus in Gothenburg is one of AstraZeneca's three strategic science centers. The site is home to over 2,500 employees, from 50 different nationalities. Gothenburg includes the complete range of functions, and as such offers plenty of development opportunities for a wide range of professionals. Our science teams in Gothenburg collaborate with academic and industry partners in Sweden and globally. The site itself has been designed with collaboration in mind - from the Coffee Lab to exercise areas, we've built a series of environments where innovation can happen.

Our Gothenburg site: https://www.astrazeneca.com/our-science/gothenburg.html
Life in Gothenburg: https://www.movetogothenburg.com/