Responsible for leading, developing and to providing direction to assigned Study Management (SM) personnel to enable delivery of drug trial projects and non-drug projects. The role ensures that individuals/skill groups they supervise are equipped with the right skills, core & leadership capabilities to lead & deliver clinical studies.

Works in collaboration with local and global (both within project and function) teams to oversee functional delivery of assigned clinical trial projects/programs in R&D China Development Operations & potentially from other R&D units in AZ.

Take responsibility and act as change agents for building and developing the Study Management organization, processes and technology related to delivery of clinical studies or other core activities in R&D China. The role holder is also responsible for building a sustainable capability development framework to ensure Study Management & R&D China Development Operations have the right capabilities to deliver clinical studies.

1. Line management of SM staff

- Recruit, retain & develop talent

- Encourage/reward staff practice of AZ values

- Ensure appropriate training, learning and development is provided to SM personnel

- Coach staff for optimum performance

- Develop & nurture future AZ leaders by leading and driving the capability development of the function

- Develop individual and manage performance

- Provide expertise and direction to support direct reports with proactive problem/risk identification, solution building and issues resolution to facilitate achievement of objectives on time and to appropriate quality.

2. Delivery of projects

- Maintain dialogue with projects (ADCD/DCD) to anticipate project requirements and mitigate risks to project delivery

- Provide appropriately skilled SM personnel to study delivery teams to ensure delivery of clinical studies to time, budget and quality through an integrated skill set model in accordance with clinical performance targets

- Ensure staff understand global project priorities and specific project challenges

- Support staff/team to achieve project milestones and study deliverables

- Participate in decisions for allocation of staff to projects

- Work across departments with the other DevOps/ClinOps leadership teams/ line managers (SMM country heads, Regional CPrMs, PTPs, ADCD Line managers, DM ADs) either to Support/Facilitate/Develop the framework for the project delivery or organizational/ClinOps integrity

3. Study management leadership

- Model AZ leadership values- Sets & implements the vision & strategy for the individual SM team, aligned with R&D China and Development Operations’ Vision & Strategy

- Lead and support change by encouraging diversity of solutions that are value demonstrated

- Act as a change agent, with local and global impact, to ensure adoption of these initiatives

- Promote and encourage innovation and creativity by bringing suggestions/good examples to DevOps or R&D China leadership

- Work with Study Management Directors/Associate Directors to support capacity management, achieving accurate resource forecasting, analysis and solution building to efficiently and flexibly resource study teams

- Ensure quality and compliance to external regulations and AZ Standards

- Work across study management teams to develop global efficient ways-of-working

- Provide expert input into functional and cross-functional global processes

- Provide leadership in R&D China DevOps Study Management

- Act in accordance with Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) delegation

- Leads dynamic sharing of study delivery knowledge, information, and best practice

- Networks with colleagues and experts

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