Do you have a passion for science? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

About AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg, MD:

Our Gaithersburg, Maryland facility crafts life-changing medicines for people around the world. This campus employs more than 3,500 authorities in our field and is only a short drive from Washington, DC. This modern and vibrant scientific campus is the home of R&D and Oncology in the US. Here, we play host to some of the most innovative technology and lab spaces, all crafted to encourage collaboration and cross-functional science. We believe employees benefit from being challenged and encouraged at work. We are dedicated to crafting a culture of inclusion and collaboration. The Gaithersburg site offers a variety of amenities to help boost efficiency and help keep our employees happy and healthy. This includes a fitness center, employee healthcare clinic, electric vehicle charging stations, dry cleaning, full-service cafeteria and copy center. This is where you’ll find newly decrafted activity-based workspaces to suit a variety of working styles while growing collaboration between teams.

Summary of the group:

At AstraZeneca, we built the Commercial Digital healthcare delivery team to accelerate our efforts to drive and partner on solutions that improve the ability for HCPs, patients, and Healthcare Systems to deliver the highest quality of care, enable patients to maximize the value of their healthcare experience and for AstraZeneca to lead innovation in collaborations across Markets, Institutes, and providers resulting in richer data collation and use, resulting in overall better care provision for the patients we serve.

Main duties and responsibilities:

As Senior Digital Strategist on the Digital Strategy & Enablement team, you will create customer value for AZ by acting as a premier senior authority to translate the needs of the business into digital strategies that support the remit & scope of the CDH. Able to author business goals into clear digital mentorship & long-term roadmaps, as well as teach non-experts to do the same, you foster a focused approach to strategy without losing sight of our servant-leadership approach.

• You build/co-create/guide the creation of roadmaps & strategies make sure our commercial leaders understand what their digital investments are doing for them and their teams

• You reach across the CDH teams, GCIT, and other commercial digital partners to ensure the different CDH (and other digital authority) verticals are speaking the same language and communicating a coherent set of strategies in a common language without jargon

• You help build our digital strategy product definition, to standardize the development of digital strategy & ensure the best outcomes.

• Lead sessions guiding the co-creation of long-term strategic roadmaps that harmonize the situational analyses, future state visions, dependencies, and investments of CDH teams, GCIT, GCO, GMA, and other owners of digital strategies.

• Support creation standards to guide external vendors in creation of digital strategies in service to AZ customers.

• Accountable for operating a process that identifies and uses our internal & external SMEs effectively to effectively provide a guided leadership decision support experience which empowers AZ leaders to make digital investment & action decisions with speed, confidence, and to best outcomes.

• Finds ways to make digital strategy more usable by the business as a part of existing business planning processes such as MTP, BSP, etc.

• Key initial focus and delivery includes:

• Partner with the Head of Digital Strategy & Enablement to support the transition of the current Content Strategy & Experience Design Team into the new structure and remit of the CDH Digital Strategy organization

• Continue to refine the approach for AZ developing digital solutions for the highest priority business needs

• Provide direction and input into core elements of digital product delivery including, planning/design, user experience and content strategy

• Define and deploy an effective strategic framework for enabling the success of digital products in market

• Assess the internal and external digital world for scaling of effective approaches to the business

• Act as a talent magnet to upskill existing and bring in new talent in the digital space

Education and Experience:

Bachelors with at least 8 years in the commercial digital business

Required Skills:

• Ability to differentiate multiple opportunities in service of strategic goals

• Thorough understanding of digital business development and ability to craft external agreements that ensure AZ objectives are prioritized and match partner objectives.

• Experience building & leading a global digital organization for a large multinational life sciences enterprise

• Understanding of broad health industry market archetypes

• Understanding of OBU and BBU brand priorities with depth

• Consistent track record in Hiring excellent people and building strong teams

• Experience in bringing innovation that is solving sophisticated and multi-dimensional issues from an operational, technical, financial, and human perspective

• Experience In driving global change in complex organizations, covering multiple cultures and a significant number of functions Highly developed communication and influencing abilities across organizational teams and levels in a large complex operating environment

• Ability to express sophisticated ideas in a clear and compelling way to multiple external and internal team member groups

• Entrepreneurial with the highest level of integrity and the ability to foster trust and loyalty

• Motivated by delivering digital innovation in service of improved patient outcomes and treatment experience

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 powerful methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!
Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat , and we hope it’s yours.
Where can I find out more?
Check out our landing page for more information on our BPD group https://careers.astrazeneca.com/bpd
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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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.