Senior Director, TA Strategy and Portfolio Delivery

Senior Director, TA Strategy and Portfolio Delivery - Vaccines and Immune Therapies

Are you a Strategically skilled Inclusive Leader with a global mentality? If you can envision applying your expertise to impact the pursuit of clinical studies, this might be the role for you!

Development Operations is here to deliver science through a wide range of specialist expertise, operational excellence and data driven innovation. These enable us to drive extensive clinical trial programmes from design to regulatory submission and approval. Providing the key connection between science and commercialisation, we deliver trials to the highest standards of quality, efficiency and ethics to thousands of patients globally.

The Site Management and Monitoring (SMM) department within Development Operations a country-based organisation with staff in over 30 countries, is responsible for leading the delivery of clinical trials at a country level. Our mission is to ensure that high quality study data is collected in a timely and productive way to support Oncology R&D and BioPharmaceuticals R&D strategies.

We are now looking for a Senior Director TA Strategy and Portfolio Delivery, supporting Vaccines and Immune therapies.



What you'll do

You'll provide strategic Therapeutic Area (TA) input to global teams and establish global SMM V&I TA strategies. In addition, we will rely on you to ensure the effective delivery of V&I portfolio key achievements across SMM countries.

You'll deliver robust feasibility insights for right country and site allocation and maintain country and site mapping per TA and Phase landscape in V&I. Furthermore, you'll drive portfolio reviews and oversights within SMM and collaborate with the global teams to align global TA strategy and direction.

As the representative for SMM in V&I TA, you are a trusted member of the global SMM Business Strategy and Portfolio team, playing a key role in ensuring the SMM insights into global TA strategy and supporting the delivery of the V&I Portfolio in the countries across geographies.

Collaboration and partnership is key in this position, and a pivotal accountability is to stay updated, and update on internal and external clinical development trends. You will collaborate with partners on global, regional and country level across therapy areas



Typical accountabilities:

* Develops and integrates end to end early to late phase capability to execute V&I portfolio
* Responsible for issue partner concern and risk mitigation for new and ongoing V&I studies to ensure SMM performance to business-critical achievements across countries at global level
* Continuously provides full visibility of the V&I portfolio of work and organization capacity to shape and influence decisions through Regional Directors to optimize resource within SM&M for short and longer term.
* Embraces digital health, patient centric, and recruitment and retention, solutions for V&I studies within SM&M in alignment with global initiatives
* Engages internally and externally to drive identification of potential new investigators to expand global footprint, in alignment with TA clinical development plans
* Responsible for driving standardization within SMM in conduct of feasibility, site selection, operational projections and processes



Essential for the role

You hold a BSc in a relevant field with substantial experience in Pharmaceutical Industry in Clinical Development and Study Operations. This is complemented by a strategic approach and experience of strategic project management within a clinical or pharmaceutical environment.

To be successful in this role, you need to have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to analyse external trends to influence internal partners. You have a high level of cultural sensitivity and interactive communication - leading to effective cross functional and global collaborations. Furthermore, you are a dedicated and great teammate who manages change with a positive approach to the challenges of change for self, team and the business.

* Proven experience of clinical development and drug development process in various phases and therapy areas and working in a global environment
* Good understanding and keen interest in digital solution and technology
* Proven leadership ability promoting, motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives
* Excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skills
* Ability to look for and champion more efficient and effective methods and processes of delivering clinical trials to plan focusing on key performance metrics of speed, quality, cost



Desirable for the role

* PhD in scientific subject area
* Professional qualification - Mastery of Clinical Development area and multi-disciplinary experience (cross-functional or functional)
* Ability to influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
* Extensive knowledge of the latest technical and regulatory expectations
* Familiarity with the latest research and thinking
* Excellent knowledge of AstraZeneca policies, procedures and guidelines