Innovative Patient Recruitment Director - Evinova

Do you have expertise in, and a passion for, improving patient access, awareness, and inclusion in clinical trials?  Would you like to apply your expertise to craft the future of innovative patient recruitment in a company that follows science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines?  Then Evinova, a new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you!   

At Evinova, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide.  Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big, and working together to make the impossible a reality.  If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Evinova is a health-tech business and a fully-owned subsidiary of the AstraZeneca Group, accelerating the delivery of better health outcomes by propelling the life sciences sector forward in digital health, from the inside.  Through our application of science-based expertise, evidence-led rigor, and human experience-driven insight, our digital solutions are deliberately crafted so that everyone can reach better health outcomes together.

We are seeking a passionate strategic Innovative Patient Recruitment Director to join our growing team.  In this role, you will help us transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health.

The focus of this role is to work with Innovative Patient Recruitment Therapy Area (TA) leaders to understand patient recruitment needs, and develop, and implement appropriate solutions.  You will also work as a member of the Innovative Patient Recruitment team to ensure digital strategies are aligned across therapy areas and define enterprise-level investments and external partnerships.

What you will do:

• Work closely with Therapy Area and Clinical Operations Leaders to develop a Digital Recruitment Strategy.  This will include channels such as patient engagement, data platforms, and patient-facing apps.  The strategy will incorporate the broad needs of the therapy area, more specific needs of individual Global Product Teams, and detailed needs of individual studies

• Find opportunities to pilot new vendors and technologies

• Deliver the operational implementation plan for the TA Digital Recruitment Strategy, working closely with Digital Health Implementation Leads to configure specific platform needs.  Develop leading and lagging performance measures to assess and communicate clearly and accurately progress against plan.

• Be an active member of the Innovative Patient Recruitment team developing an industry-leading R&D Digital organization

• Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity, and issues management at strategic, tactical, and operational levels

• Deliver governance-approved business cases within tolerance, on time, cost, and quality working with functional management as required to resolve issues.

• Grow and maintain internal and external relationships, connecting the needs of key customers including TA, patients, health care providers, and technology partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, marketing, or technology-based subject area

• A minimum of 7 years of experience

• Relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry

• A shown understanding of the drug development processes and the impact technology can have on these processes

• Experience in Digital Health with an understanding of healthcare

• Ability to lead and influence strategically and persuade thoughtfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships

• Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership, and hold self and others accountable

• Experience leading a development team and working in a global environment

• Passion for Patients and Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision-making

Why Evinova (AstraZeneca)?

Evinova draws on AstraZeneca’s deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment.  We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider healthcare community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients.  Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector.  Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

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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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.