Senior Director, Alliance Management (CRO Group Lead)

Locations: Gothenburg, SE; Warsaw, PL; Barcelona, ES; Mississauga, CA

Salary: Competitive with excellent employee benefits!

Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe!

Be part of a dedicated Research & Development team. Fuelled by our commitment to help more patients, strengthen our pipeline and grow our area. This is the place to go beyond discovery – we think holistically about patients and are always learning from those living with diseases.

We harness digital, data science & AI to fast-forward our research. Making sure work born in a lab can make a real difference. Everyday, impacting patients’ lives across the world.

The Alliance Management (AM) group sits within BioPharma Clinical Operations and is accountable for setting the sourcing strategy across R&D and managing suppliers to ensure that they deliver what the organisations need; and develop strong, beneficial partnerships with key suppliers delivering full service, functional and technology components of clinical studies.

The Alliance Management CRO Group Lead is responsible for leading a team of Alliance Management professionals whose responsibility is to manage key suppliers delivering both full service and functional components of clinical studies within defined delivery models / ways of working - ensuring the supplier(s) are meeting the needs of the business and are delivering to contract. The team will be responsible for providing visibility of supplier performance to AZ and ensuring that strong relationships with the suppliers are created and maintained.

The Alliance Management Group Lead will also act as the senior level point of contact for key strategic suppliers. They will drive innovation and future aligned development of key suppliers to ensure that we are maximising value for both parties - connecting the business needs with the suppliers’ offerings and ensuring sharing of key strategies.

As an expert in your field, you will ensure you and the team stay up to date with industry trends enabling R&D to make informed sourcing strategy decisions.

Essential criteria:

• University degree in related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated global line management experience
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills, especially without authority
• Extensive knowledge of clinical and pharmaceutical drug development process at various phases of development
• Extensive experience working collaboratively with external partners to enable delivery
• Demonstrated experience of directing alliance governance frameworks and processes (including performance metrics)
• Excellent networking and collaboration skills with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders (incl senior level stakeholders) across global and functional boundaries
• Holistic grasp of complex situations, see the full picture and understand impact of actions, and is confident in making decisions in such situations
• Ability to apply knowledge to solve problems that involve many decision makers, and develop multiple options/recommendations

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

Closing date 12th July

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.