System Owner, Associate Director, Global Clinical Solutions

at  AstraZeneca

Global Clinical Solutions (GCS) drives the delivery of Technology and associated processes for the BioPharmaceuticals R&D organisation, owning and providing industry leading technology and services on behalf of Development Operations and its internal and external Partnerships.
The System Owner (SO) is a member of Global Clinical Solutions, Business Technology Solutions (BTS) department and is end-to-end accountable for the leadership, lifecycle management and continuous improvement of Clinical systems. This SO role will be fairly broad and experience in Drug Development Analysis and Reporting processes will be important as the SO will be responsible for a Clinical system or Systems.
The System Owner works closely with vendor(s) if applicable, R&D IT (Information Technology), Functional Process Owners, Business Process Management Office (BPMO), internal and external customers and stakeholders to ensure customer needs are met and to enable optimal end-to-end delivery of clinical studies. You will be responsible for the identification, definition and delivery of improvements in end-to-end clinical study delivery, utilising tools and techniques to achieve continuous improvement and value creation (i.e. Lean Six Sigma).
The SO ensures that the System meets ICH/GxP requirements and aligns with industry direction, standards, and best practices.
The System Owner represents the business interests in strategy discussions and provides strategic advice to the Governance team in securing long-term business success of their assigned system(s). Reviews and approves (if acceptable) identified system risks and mitigations. Controls and prioritizes all business requests, such as those for feature enhancements, ensuring prioritization takes place so resources (staff, vendor budget) are spent on value-add activities. Accountable for communication to key stakeholders and the business regarding the system (major incidents, new releases, etc.)
All System Owners will lead and manage improvement projects as needed, and will contribute to functional, regional and or global initiatives.

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