Evidence Portfolio Delivery Director

3 days ago


Mississauga, Canada AstraZeneca Full time

BioPharmaceuticals Medical (**BPM**) ensures the best patient outcomes by providing healthcare decision-makers around the world with the evidence and confidence they need on AstraZeneca (**AZ**) therapies and support our internal stakeholders with medical insight and expertise. BPM provides medical leadership with market participation and connectivity while also impacting the life cycle planning and execution of all our products. BPM aims to lead AZ in achieving scientific leadership, being a great place to work, and keeping patients at the core of everything we do.

The BioPharmaceuticals Medical Global Evidence Portfolio Delivery organization is accountable for the operational delivery of global strategic studies required to generate the evidence to build the confidence on AZ therapies and additional observational, interventional and externally sponsored research required by Global Product Teams and Global Medical Teams.

**About the role**:
The Evidence Delivery Director (**EDD**) will be responsible and accountable for the operational planning, delivery, oversight and budget management of company sponsored studies and/or externally sponsored studies and/or Early Access Programs. The EDD will work hand in hand with the scientific study leader who is responsible for all scientific aspects throughout all stages of the study (epidemiologist for observational studies, Medical Affairs Leader for interventional studies).

In addition, the EDD will support BPM Evidence’s continuous improvement by developing expertise in a specific area of study delivery, serving as a point of contact for best practice, and contributing to the development and maintenance of guidance documents and training materials.

Usually, the EDD’s focus will be on one of the three main types of work as described below.

Specific activities/responsibilities per type of study:
**Company Sponsored Observational and Interventional Research**:
Input into Study Design Concept (SDC)
- Responsible to provide the insights on operational feasibility during the SDC development process.

Accountable for protocol
- Drive the process of coordinating protocol development by ensuring input of all relevant cross functional (internal) and external stakeholders
- Responsible to provide input on operational feasibility of the protocol

Manage Study Governance (post SDC)
- Coordinate all internal, study governance processes (e.g. ERT, MARC, LSPC, ClinicalChallenge)

External Service Provider Management
- Lead the process for selection of External Service Providers (ESPs), including Clinical Research Organisations (CROs)
- Collaborate with CRO/ESP to ensure the study operational aspects are effectively undertaken and ensure that study delivery is within time, cost and quality limits
- Manage study specific issues and escalations with ESPs/CROs

Stakeholder Management
- Set up study team and manage study sourcing
- Effective collaboration with the scientific/medical counterpart, the Epidemiologist/Global Medical Affairs Leader (GMAL) respectively, as well as other internal cross functional global roles
- Report study updates from a time, cost and quality perspective to internal stakeholders
- Clarify and document an effective communication approach, as well as roles and responsibilities between the BPM Evidence stakeholders, local AZ and External Service Providers
- Ensure appropriate level of involvement of the external scientific community (e.g. (Inter)national Coordinating Investigators, Steering/Executive Committee) during study design and delivery

Manage study finance:

- Develop and maintain the overall study budget (internal and external study costs)
- Keep transparency on study budget and changes through relevant systems (s.a. ACCORD) and platforms (Planning Performance and Control (PPC) meetings) and obtain approval for budget changes
- Work with procurement on study agreement and manage subsequent out of scope changes for ESP/CRO
- Manage and reconcile Contracts, POs and invoices
- Financial audit readiness and Sox attestation

Other Project Management activities
- Deliver studies to agreed timelines (scorecard), within the approved budget and according to AstraZeneca quality standards
- Ensure global oversight over the operational study start up, implementation and closure and ensure inspection readiness
- Lead study related change management within business strategy, s.a. assessment of scope changes.
- Ensure Compliance with AZ Procedural Documents, Standards and Policies, international guidelines and local regulations at any time, and report compliance breaches
- Undertake feasibility assessments with internal and external stakeholders
- Manage study system reporting
- Lead the study and manage the study team stakeholders (e.g. core team, extended team, delivery team

**Externally Sponsored Scientific Research (ESR)**:
Governance:

- Responsible for leading the review and evaluation of all ESR proposals and protocols, in line with a product’s



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