Senior Strategy Director (Senior Consultant)

Introduction to role 

Are you ready to make a difference in the world of digital health? As a member of the Digital Strategy Team within Evinova you will partner with both AstraZeneca R&D, Top 10 pharmaceutical companies & biotechs to develop and implement AI and digital health strategies & solutions that accelerate clinical development and enhance patient outcomes. This dynamic role combines strategy consulting & solution design, all driving value realization for Evinova.  

If you have significant experience in Clinical Development and the ability to work with a consulting mindset & problem solve with internal and external stakeholders, this is the opportunity for you! 

This is a hybrid position with a requirement to work in our Boston office three days a week.

Accountabilities

• Strategic Partnering:  Serve as a trusted advisor to both AZ and external organisations across clinical development, clinical operations, and medical. Shape digital strategies, develop operating models, and roadmaps that align with the development portfolio and individual assets. 

• Project Leadership: Lead project / engagement teams to develop & deliver digital health strategies 

• Digital Health Strategy & Solutioning: Define problem statements, solution options, vendor landscapes, and selection criteria for digital solutions including patient recruitment, remote data collection and monitoring, ePRO/eCOA, digital biomarkers, and patient engagement platforms. 

• AI leadership: Maintain a strong pulse on trends in AI tools transforming clinical development, operations and processes, bringing forward pragmatic, value-led innovations that deliver value across portfolios. 

• Business Case & Value Realization: Build robust business cases (benefits, costs, risks, scenarios) and define measurable value frameworks (cycle-time reduction, data quality, patient retention, site burden, cost avoidance). Track and report realized value post-implementation. 

• Protocol Development Support: Contribute to study protocol design where digital tools are used (e.g., endpoint rationale, sensor selection, sampling frequency, feasibility, burden, data flows, and risk management). Ensure alignment with therapeutic area strategy and regulatory expectations. 

• Protocol Feasibility and Execution: Utilize tools to support clinical development and operations teams in optimizing protocols through AI-driven solutions to minimize cost, accelerate timelines, improve patient and site experience, and minimize environmental impact without compromising scientific quality. 

• Implementation & Evaluation: Lead pilots and scaled implementations of digital health technologies, including feasibility studies, validation frameworks, vendor due diligence, interoperability planning, data governance, and change management.  

Essential Skills/Experience

• Experience: 8+ years in Clinical Development with a strong focus on application of digital health within healthcare (clinical development and/or clinical operations or biomarker strategy). 

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, data science, or related field.

• AI in clinical development: Strong AI capabilities including demonstrated understanding of the role AI will play in drug discovery and development. 

• Exceptional project management and communication skills, including demonstrated ability to build and maintain trusted relationships.  

• Therapeutic Area Exposure: Experience with one or more therapeutic area, across Oncology, CVRM, Respiratory/Immunology, Infectious Diseases and/or rare disease, where digital endpoints are emerging. 

• Protocol Development: Hands-on involvement contributing to or reviewing clinical protocols and operational plans where digital tools inform endpoints, assessments, or data collection. 

• Business Case & Value Realization: Capability in financial modeling, benefits quantification, hypothesis-to-value tracking, and post-implementation value realization reporting. 

• Project Accountability: Demonstrated ownership of projects in clinical development teams, from initiation through delivery.  

• Executive presence and leadership: Ability to interact and communicate effectively with senior executive teams, with demonstrated ability to lead and influence experienced professionals in a fast-paced, highly matrixed work environment.  

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, PharmD, MBA) is preferred. 

• Digital Health Delivery: Proven track record evaluating and implementing digital health solutions (e.g., wearables, sensors, ePRO/eCOA, DHT-enabled endpoints, trial delivery capabilities, patient apps/portals), including regulatory knowledge and technical fluency. 

• Therapeutic Area Exposure: Experience with two or more therapeutic area, across Oncology, CVRM, Respiratory/Immunology, Infectious Diseases and/or rare disease, where digital endpoints are emerging. 

• Consulting Experience: Experience in pharmaceutical / healthcare consulting, either as part of a dedicated consulting organisation (eg management consulting firm) or an internal pharmaceutical company consulting function.  

• Technical Landscape Expertise: Familiarity with eCOA, sensor/wearable trial design and delivery vendors; experience running RFPs and technical due diligence.  

• Validation & Qualification: Experience with analytical/clinical validation of digital measures, human factors engineering, and usability studies. 

• Product Mindset: Background in product management for digital tools or platforms used in trials or patient support. 

• Global Programs: Delivery experience across multi-country studies with an understanding of site/patient variability and localization needs. 

• Regulatory experience: Understanding of global regulatory landscape and experience in global regulatory interactions and submissions  

The annual base pay (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from 233,586.4 to 350,379.6 USD. Our positions offer eligibility for various incentives—an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

At AstraZeneca, we believe in the potential of our people, and you’ll develop beyond what you thought possible. We make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve no matter where you start with us. As a Statistical Programming Director, you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives and join us on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing  View email address on careers.astrazeneca.com . 

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 their 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 health tech 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.   

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