Digital Strategy Director, Oncology

Accountabilities

• Strategic Partnering: Serve as a trusted advisor to AstraZeneca, working directly with Clinical Program teams, Global Product teams and functional leaders across R&D. Build digital strategies, develop operating models, and roadmaps that align with the development portfolio and individual assets. Build quantified cases and apply financial competence to articulate value to senior partners.
• Digital Health Strategy & Solutioning: Define problem statements, solution options, vendor landscapes, and selection criteria for digital solutions including patient recruitment, remote data collection and monitoring, ePRO/eCOA, digital measures, and patient engagement platforms. Define workflows, user experience, and how adoption and success will be measured. Ensure alignment with therapeutic area strategy and regulatory expectations.
• Clinical Trial Optimization: Optimize designs to minimize cost, accelerate timelines, improve patient and site experience, and minimize environmental impact without compromising scientific quality.
• Product Expertise, Adoption & Roadmap: Develop deep expertise in Evinova's products and help AstraZeneca to apply them effectively to realise value. Capture insights and unmet needs to build Evinova's product roadmaps.
• AI leadership: Maintain a strong pulse on trends in AI tools transforming clinical development, operations and processes, bringing forward pragmatic innovations that deliver value across portfolios. Work with therapeutic area, program and functional leaders to build AI into how teams operate and make decisions, translating between business and technical teams (data science, IT, digital) so solutions improve both day-to-day execution and strategic direction.
• Implementation & Evaluation: Lead pilots and scale implementations of digital health technologies, including feasibility studies, validation frameworks, vendor due diligence, interoperability planning, data governance, and change management.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 6+ years of experience
• Demonstrated experience in Clinical Development, with a strong focus on application of digital health within healthcare (clinical development and/or clinical operations or biomarker strategy).
• Strong AI capabilities including demonstrated understanding of the role AI will play in drug research and development.
• Outstanding project delivery and communication capabilities, with a proven ability to build and maintain trusted relationships.
• Experience in oncology and/or haematology clinical development, including patient care and trial delivery, with strong working knowledge of combination strategies and next-generation mechanisms of action (e.g. ADCs, cell therapy, T-cell engagers).
• Hands-on involvement contributing to clinical protocols and operational plans where digital tools inform endpoints, assessments, or data collection.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, engineering, data science, or related field; advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, PharmD, MBA) preferred.
• Proven track record building, evaluating and implementing digital health solutions (e.g., ePRO/eCOA, DHT-enabled endpoints, trial delivery capabilities, patient apps/portals), including regulatory knowledge and technical fluency.
• Experience with CVRM, Respiratory/Immunology, Infectious Diseases and/or rare disease a plus.
• Experience delivering pharmaceutical / healthcare consulting engagements, either within a dedicated consulting organisation (e.g. management consulting firm) or an internal pharmaceutical company consulting function.
• Experience with analytical/clinical validation of digital measures, human factors engineering, and usability studies.
• Familiarity with SaaS products, background in product management for digital tools or platforms used in trials or patient support.
• Delivery experience across multi-country studies with an understanding of site/patient variability and localization needs.