Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacology & Quantitative Pharmacology (CPQP) - ADC

Introduction to role:
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on patients' lives? We are seeking a Senior Director for our Clinical Pharmacology & Quantitative Pharmacology (CPQP) team within the Biopharmaceuticals R&D division. This role is a unique blend of line management and project accountabilities, with the opportunity to lead scientific, strategic, and improvement initiatives at various levels. You will be responsible for leading a dynamic team of Clinical Pharmacologists and Clinical Pharmacometricians, ensuring consistent and valued CPQP contributions across the portfolio.

Accountabilities:
As a Senior Director, you will lead a team delivering quality clinical pharmacology input to projects from pre-CDID to life-cycle management (LCM). You will be accountable for resource management, providing flexible, competent and responsive service according to business needs. You will also act as a delegate for the TA Head at functional LT meetings, Clin Pharm review Board, governance, and other TA interactions, as necessary. Your role will involve developing a culture supportive of MIDD approaches across the TA influencing key partners, stakeholders and regulators of its value and application.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- PhD degree or equivalent (M.Sc./Pharm.D.) with relevant experience required,

- Demonstrated broad translational and clinical development experience exemplified by a minimum of 10 years international drug development or equivalent experience in large and small molecules (early and late clinical)
- Can develop people, drives performance, holds self and others accountable
- Record of building successful internal/external partnership and collaboration relationships, demonstrating cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Experience of leading teams
- Strong leadership capabilities including influencing skills
- Experience in mentoring and developing others
- Conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking
- International scientific reputation gained from scientific publishing in the field of quantitative clinical pharmacology
- Demonstrated ability to identify, develop and execute strategic CPQP activities
- Relevant TA disease domain knowledge
- Relevant regulatory experience (written/oral)
- A demonstrated knowledge of regulatory, compliance, processes, standards and issues specific to CPQP

Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience in several organisations
- Experience in discovery and development of ADCs

At AstraZeneca, we follow the science to explore and innovate. We are driven by our desire to understand and reveal new insights. We are free from fear of failure, free to ask the right questions, make bold decisions, and dig deep into the biology of complex disease. We take inspiration from within our BioPharmaceutical heritage, as well as beyond, exploring what we can take and apply. We are always listening and learning from people who live with the diseases our medicines treat. It enables us to better understand their needs and, ultimately, diagnose and design the right treatments to impact patients' lives.

Are you ready to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines? If your passion is science and you want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients' lives, then there's no better place to be.

Apply today!

Date Posted

19-Apr-2024

Closing Date

30-Apr-2024Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.