Location Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia
Job ID R-230698
Date posted 06/07/2025
Do you have expertise in start-up clinical trials, leadership capabilities and a passion for transforming patient outcomes through cutting-edge science? Would you like to apply your leadership and scientific expertise to impact lives globally in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Leading the Oncology Site Management and Monitoring Enablement Team to deliver Study Start Up, Finance and Study Support across oncology studies.
• Leading the Study Start-Up team to execute the delivery of site start up activities for oncology studies, to ensure optimal resource utilisation and driving a best in class activation delivery focused on quality, efficiency and expediency.
• Works with Directors within SM&M to support capacity management, achieve accurate resource forecasting, analysis, and solution building to efficiently and flexibly resource study delivery.
• Recruitment, retention, development and performance management of the team(s) or direct reports.
• Contribute to the strategy and oversight of the portfolio.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

This is a maximum 12-month initial contract, available to candidates seeking either 0.8 FTE or full-time (1.0 FTE) employment.
As the Oncology Study Start-Up Associate Director, you’ll spearhead the Oncology Site Management and Monitoring Study Start-Up team, ensuring the seamless execution of site start-up activities for oncology studies. Your leadership will drive cross-functional collaboration, optimise resource utilisation, and establish a best-in-class activation delivery focused on quality, efficiency, and expediency.
You’ll embed consistent ways of working across the Study Start-Up group, building capabilities and potentially leading Local Study Teams at the country level to deliver committed components of oncology clinical studies.

ESSENTIAL FOR THE ROLE

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in medical or biological science, or related subject or equivalent qualifications or experience.
• Five or more years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry working with the delivery of clinical studies.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical trial operational study activation processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Leadership Capabilities.

DESIRABLE FOR THE ROLE

• Line management experience.
• Ability to work in an environment of remote collaborators.
• Proven leadership promoting motivation and empowerment of others to accomplish individual, team, and organizational objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets, and project initiatives in a global and regional context.