ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

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SITE DESCRIPTION

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What you can expect: great working atmosphere empowering you to reach your full potential, endless development opportunities and benefits like: medical & life insurance, lunch card, annual bonus, education cost reimbursement, occasional allowances (Christmas, holiday), Multisport, anniversary awards, additional time off, pension plan, business travel insurance, recognition programme, flexible working hours.

At AstraZeneca, every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives every day.

Function overview

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to transform healthcare, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most. Now we are further accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we demonstrate the best in new technology and leading-edge capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.

Digital Health R&D is reimagining how we work to position AstraZeneca as an industry leader, making the development & delivery of new medicines easier. We’re doing this by harnessing the latest innovations enabled by digital, data & analytics and working with our people to craft and build the technology and working practices.

AstraZeneca’s Digital Health R&D Patient Health & Innovation organisation develops digital solutions to support our development and commercial drug portfolios. These digital solutions (e.g. Unify) encompass connected monitoring devices and sensors coupled with medical device software to:

• Improve clinical development, through optimising data collection and improving communications between AZ, HCP and patients
• Provide enriched data sets to support regulatory submissions, and differentiated labelling
• Optimise real world medication use by patients and deliver digital interventions to improve clinical outcomes

As part of the Digital Health R&D the team will develop and execute AZ’s R&D Digital strategy. The program has already delivered the first versions of bespoke digital solutions for clinical trials globally, built on a standardized set of modules to enable identification and recruitment of patients, ongoing engagement and retention, support to sites and collection of data directly from patients.

Role summary

The core role of the Associate Director, Data Standards is to ensure R&D data is effectively handled throughout its lifetime from the time it is created to how it is utilised by the business and high data quality is maintained. Associate Director, Data Standards will drive good data management practices for priority data domains supporting Digital Health projects including driving standardisation, defining business rules, documenting data flows and maximised utilisation of investments in master data (Reltio), reference data (CENtree) and data catalogue (Collibra). 
 

Typical Accountabilities

Data Standards and Quality management

• Work with the Product Owners across Digital Health to understand their data standardisation demands for Digital use-cases.
• Lead the cross-functional definition of Data Standards, including master data, reference data and metadata applying subject matter expertise.
• Work with the Data Owners, Data Stewards and Data Quality Managers to drive forward data standardisation to the Data Domain environment and to increase Data Quality across R&D data prioritised by Digital Health use cases.
• Work with the Data Quality Managers to ensure Data Quality is a study health measure in Control Tower.
• Data domain stewardship and guidelines
  • Manages the production of effective procedures to ensure that each data domain is governed throughout its lifetime within defined area of expertise
  • Defines data flow requirements to ensure data flows produced across the organisation are transparent, consistent, approved, stored and maintained.
  • Works with Data Owners and stakeholders to maintain alignment to data quality and data governance standards; managing complex risks or issues within area of expertise.

Leadership, Improvement and Change

• Contribute to definition and execution of mission, vision, strategy, goals, roadmap and metrics for the function.
• Work with the product owners and project managers across the MDM (master data management), RDM (reference data management) and DC (data catalogue) projects to ensure the needs of Information Operations and our Data Owner community are met.
• Work with the Data Owners and Data Stewards to define the data requirements to be built into the MDM and RDM solutions
• Work with the Data Quality Managers and Data Owners to develop the requirements for leveraging the Collibra technology, from a data catalogue perspective and from a data governance tool perspective.
• Work with Privacy Office, R&D Data Office and Digital Health stakeholders to make sure that privacy challenges are appropriately addressed
• Liaises with SMEs and Information Architects in a proactive way, to support the development of conceptual models, business glossary and ontologies.
• Work with the Solution and Information Architects to ensure the architecture across Science DataHub, Digital Health products, Reltio, Collibra and CENtree is aligned and there is connectivity between the various technologies.
• Support the Information Operations Lead in delivering against AZ’s TRUST principles and the Data Governance strategies for Digital Health R&D.

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Information/Data Science, Informatics, computer science, economics or related discipline – or equivalent number of years of experience.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent relationship skills
• Proven change management, interpersonal, assertiveness and negotiation skills
• Working understanding of industry best practices & technologies that effectively govern and manage data from various perspectives. (Data governance, data management, data standards, retention/destruction and privacy/protection)

• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills with ability to effectively communicate with senior management.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence others including senior level stakeholders to achieve objectives
• Project leadership skills to plan, organise a team and drive complex, cross-functional deliveries
• Ability to write data governance policies and its controls to a professional standard.

Desirable

• Understanding of the data landscape within the clinical drug and pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience working across the drug research and development lifecycle
• Understanding of the trial integrity and associated unblinding risks
• Travel – willingness to travel domestically & internationally (occasional)
• Understanding of privacy regulations
• Knowledge of user-access and security risks and controls.
• Data Governance and Data Management education and certifications

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next?

Closing date: 15th of September

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you!

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.