Associate Director, Strategic Feasibility

The **Associate Director Strategic Feasibility (ADSF)** role is TA aligned to ensure close partnership with the TA organisations for design and delivery of the portfolio, and to support growing therapeutic knowledge balanced with data analytics/interpretation and technical skills. And a good understanding of global, regional and local country landscape and priorities.

Aligned within Global Feasibility and Site Intelligence team, the ADSF will support data driven strategic design and operational feasibility, site identification, and recruitment and retention recommendations for early to late-stage medicine development across Oncology R&D, beginning at the concept stage through to execution.

Partnering with TA leads and key stakeholders within Oncology R&D, and country SMM, the AD FPD supports predictable delivery, ensuring standardization in use of data, tools and process to advise quality decision making.

**Typical Accountabilities**
- Support Director of Strategic Feasibility (DSF) in the development of early study strategy insights, using data intelligence (historical and Real-World Data RWD), and insights from key external and internal partners
- Support development of site engagement strategy including development of data collection platform such as feasibility questionnaires
- Lead interaction with local Site management organizations, involved in global feasibility, to convey strategy and collect site data and country commitments
- Support modelling of strategy options for the study using relevant internal and external data assets, predictive models
- Support interpretation of data and development of recommendations on operational strategy
- Provides data driven strategic design and operational feasibility, including site identification, and recruitment and retention recommendations at TA/indication/program level taking into consideration unique needs of indication, patient population, study and business priorities.
- Supports the implementation of standardized design feasibility offering, using data intelligence and insights from key authorities to support study teams from program concept to protocol design and study set-up
- Supports planning and delivery of data driven end-to-end operational feasibility in partnership with TA Lead FPD, to advise country, site selection and baseline recruitment forecasts and study milestones
- Expert user for new study design and planning digital platform. Provides input into continuous enhancement of tool features to meet needs of current practice.
- Engages key roles in business involved in feasibility and site selection: Site Management & Monitoring Team (SMM) (TA Heads, Regional and Country Leads), TA and Clinical Program Team (Senior /Global Program Directors), Study Physician, and Study Management (SM) Team
- Supports partnering with Global, Regional and Country TA and Operational Roles to provide early internal pipeline information to enable local markets early evaluation of country participation in programs/studies from strategic and operational perspective.
- Works in partnership with TA and Clinical Project Teams (CPT), Study Team Operating Model (STOM) roles from SM and SMM, as main partners, to plan, develop and achieve recruitment and retention goals via strategic intelligence and data-driven early planning.
- Delivers global patient recruitment KPIs and other performance dashboards for Development Operations. Contribute to innovation projects and continuous process improvement within Clinical

**Essential Qualifications**
- Bachelors degree in relevant field (e.g. life sciences, business management, project management)
- Experience from Drug Development and Feasibility in the pharmaceutical industry
- Proven experience in data analysis, data interpretation to drive inform decision making
- Experience in managing, influencing, building and maintaining relationships
- Clinical trial patient and investigator recruitment and retention experience
- Experience working with Global teams
- Experience working in matrix environment with multiple priorities

**Desirable Skills**
- MA, MBA in relevant field (e.g. life sciences, business management, project management)
- New product development experience within the pharmaceutical industry
- Prior involvement in developing study delivery strategies and tactical/operational plans aligned to commercial and regulatory objectives
- Proven project/program management or other complex/cross-border management experience
- Proven experience working with partners, CROs/AROs

**In-Office Requirement**

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. This role may have the flexibility to be performed at additional AstraZeneca's Oncology SMM offices globally.

**Why Astra