Job Title: Senior Director, Early Oncology Precision Medicine

Cambridge (UK) or Waltham; MA (US)

Join our Oncology R&D team as a Senior Director, Precision Medicine Lead, Early Oncology (Antibody Drug Conjugates).

You will be accountable for ensuring that diagnostic tests or equivalent segmentation tools are delivered to our portfolio of antibody drug conjugate products within Early Oncology. This role is pivotal in leading all aspects of the development of traditional and computational pathology tools for patient segmentation.

Accountabilities:
As a Senior Director, you will provide strategic direction, leadership, and planning. You will ensure the adoption of appropriate traditional pathology and computational pathology diagnostic development strategies within the product teams. You will also provide leadership to the Precision Medicine Leaders leading all aspects of the Antibody Drug Conjugate projects. You will be accountable for the delivery of diagnostic plans to time, budget and quality for all ADC projects in the portfolio.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• PhD or equivalent experience in a relevant subject

• Experience in novel diagnostic approaches, eg ctDNA and/ or digital pathology, in clinical development, within a diagnostic or pharmaceutical setting

• Significant experience of Precision Medicine approaches and diagnostic development within oncology

• Experience and track record in pathology-based diagnostics

• Evidence of excellent skills in communication, customer influencing, programme management, and regulatory interactions

• Effective leadership, performance management and talent management

• Sophisticated team and program management abilities

• Comprehensive understanding of the functions involved in companion diagnostic development and how they give to achieving the objectives of the business
  

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Significant previous experience in similar role in different companies

• Delivery of diagnostics, regulatory interactions and commercialisation

• Experience in the development and/or delivery of computational pathology solutions

• High quality expertise in the precision medicine

• Evidence of external interactions in the diagnostic field e.g. diagnostic partnering, regulation of drugs and linked diagnostics, payer and policy considerations, ethical and legal aspects

• Effective leadership of global teams
  

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. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?
Join us at AstraZeneca and be part of a team dedicated to Oncology, with an ambition to eliminate cancer as a cause of death. It's our big vision that unites and inspires us. With multiple indications and high-quality molecules at all stages of our innovative pipeline, we keep pushing forward. Fusing cutting-edge science with the latest technology to achieve breakthroughs. Backed by investment, we are aiming to deliver 6 new molecular entities by 2025.

Are you ready to pioneer new science and break boundaries with our ambitious and innovative pipeline? We have achieved a lot in a short space of time by focusing on our pipeline and evaluating novelty and clinical development movement. In 2019 and 2020 we were ranked at the top of the invention scale with best pipeline' by IDEA Pharma. But the next chapter of our pipeline is more exciting than ever! We have an ambitious goal to deliver 6 new molecular entities by 2025. It is up to each of us to keep pushing forward and pioneer new approaches. From bold innovations and integrated healthcare systems to harnessing data and technology.

Ready to make a difference? Apply today and join us in our mission to eliminate cancer as a cause of death!

Job Advert Opened: 12th April 2024

Job Advert Closing Date: 11th May 2024

Date Posted

25-Apr-2024

Closing Date

12-May-2024

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