Quality Improvement Director - Healthcare jobs in Maryland

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a new healthtech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you!

Transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new healthtech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group. 

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector.  

In this role, you will be a key member of the Digital Health Strategy & Implementation team, playing a leading role in developing digital health strategies to transform AstraZeneca’s Oncology clinical trials, making them more effective, efficient, and patient-centric. Specifically, you will:

• Work closely with key partners within Oncology Global Product Teams (GPTs) as well as expert functions to build the Digital Health Strategy for a given product. This entails bringing together subject matter experts in clinical trial patient identification, recruitment and retention; novel endpoints and clinical outcome assessments; decentralised clinical trials and other digital capabilities in order to develop and optimise strategies for the product portfolio.

• Improve our digital health innovation readiness by building and maintaining a library of solutions and practices alongside subject matter experts. Collaborate with Evinova product teams to prioritize capability development which drives business value and patient outcomes, resulting in the development of an industry leading Digital organization.

• Evangelize critical initiatives in strategy, governance and the adoption of new ways of working by creating communities of practice to help build capabilities. Upskill the clinical teams on digital health solutions, changing their mindset on the opportunities for adoption and value generation of digital health technologies.

• Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity and issues management at strategic, tactical and operational levels.

• Oversee governance approved business cases are delivered within tolerance, on time, cost and quality working with functional management as required to resolve issues.

• Grow and maintain internal and external relationships with partners in AstraZeneca Oncology R&D and the commercial organization, key markets, external leaders and our patients to ensure prioritized needs are met in everything we do.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in scientific field.

• 7 plus years of shown experience in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO with robust understanding of Drug Development Processes and therapeutic Clinical Trials.

• Broad knowledge of the current challenges and opportunities digital health tools offer to improve clinical trials in Oncology.

• Practical “hands-on” experience in Digital Health Technologies that support decentralized clinical trials (e.g. eConsent, eCOA, telemedicine, innovative patient recruitment, remote patient monitoring tools, etc.).

• Ability to lead and influence strategically and persuade thoughtfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships.

• Excellent communication skills, able to build clarity from ambiguity.

• Prior experience in working collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners.

• Strong influencing and senior collaborator management skills.

• Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and hold self and others accountable.

• Transformational leadership of functional and cross functional team.

• Passion for customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (Doctorate and/or MBA).

• Strong Scientific and Medical understanding of the Oncology Therapy Area.

• Device, software development and / or clinical project management.

• Comprehensive understanding of dynamics affecting the pharmaceutical industry and needs for transformation.

• Ability to work globally including international travel.

• Well-developed project management skills, including handling vendors, budgets, timelines, and risks.

This role can be located at our following sites: Gaithersburg, MD (USA), Waltham, MA (USA) or Mississauga (Canada)

When you submit your application, please make sure you describe clearly how you meet the requirements of the role.

Why Evinova (AstraZeneca)?

Evinova draws on AstraZeneca’s deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment.  We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider healthcare community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients.  Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector.  Join us on our journey of building a new kind of healthtech business 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?

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

Where can I find out more?

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Learn more about Evinova www.evinova.co

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.