Jobs at AstraZeneca

Leads global executive recruiting and succession pipeline development, primarily for Executive Director roles in pharmaceutical R&D. Advises senior leaders on talent strategies, market intelligence, assessment, succession readiness, diversity, rewards, and hiring decisions. Manages direct searches, internal slates, talent mapping, external search partners, and vendor performance. Uses ATS, CRM, data storytelling, and AI-assisted talent intelligence to improve hiring outcomes, inclusion, process efficiency, and executive decision quality.

Leads integrated U.S. brand and launch communications for Alexion’s portfolio, translating scientific and business priorities into compliant narratives across media, digital, employee, executive, advocacy, and social channels. Advises senior leaders, manages issues and milestones, coordinates cross-functional and global teams, directs agencies and budgets, applies AI-enabled communications tools, and measures campaign performance. Requires regulated pharmaceutical or biotechnology communications experience, strong scientific writing, stakeholder leadership, and familiarity with compliance review processes.

Leads U.S. digital content strategy, editorial planning, publishing, governance, measurement, and optimization across corporate websites and social channels. Develops and adapts platform-specific content, manages approval workflows, coordinates agencies and vendors, applies AI-enabled tools, and oversees accessibility, SEO, analytics, community monitoring, and risk escalation. Partners with communications, marketing, medical, regulatory, compliance, talent, advocacy, policy, and enterprise digital teams to deliver compliant, on-brand content.

Leads strategic communications and change management for RDU IT transformation initiatives, including AI and digital adoption. Develops executive narratives, employee engagement campaigns, town halls, leadership communications, digital content, and organizational announcements. Advises senior leaders, manages branding and storytelling, supports technology rollouts and user onboarding, measures communication effectiveness, and oversees contract resources. The role partners globally across IT and business functions to drive adoption, collaboration, and enterprise-wide change.

Provides global legal counsel for business development transactions, including licensing, collaborations, asset deals, and M&A. Advises on deals from term sheet through closing, drafts and negotiates agreements, conducts due diligence, manages external counsel and budgets, assesses risk, and advises senior stakeholders. The role partners with business development, IP, finance, tax, and R&D teams and uses AI-enabled tools to improve deal-making efficiency.

Leads end-to-end incentive compensation strategy and administration for the US Hematology/Nephrology business. Designs and benchmarks sales incentive plans, performs complex rewards analysis, coordinates approvals with cross-functional partners, manages communications and training, ensures quality and regulatory compliance, responds to field inquiries, and partners with technology teams to automate reporting and calculations.

Partners with commercial leaders to translate business challenges into data science, machine learning, AI-enabled solutions, and decision frameworks. Develops analytics for sales effectiveness, targeting, patient finding, promotional investment, and related commercial use cases. Designs agentic AI workflows, builds scalable cloud solutions, validates outputs, protects data privacy, and communicates actionable recommendations to nontechnical stakeholders.

Lead AstraZeneca’s AI research agenda for clinical development across oncology and biopharmaceuticals. Develop methods for treatment-effect heterogeneity, biomarker discovery, patient stratification, survival analysis, and trial generalization. Design and evaluate agentic AI systems using Python and modern machine-learning frameworks. Establish reproducible engineering, responsible AI governance, and regulatory-aligned evaluation practices while influencing clinical strategy and mentoring scientists and engineers. Disseminate findings through publications, patents, partnerships, and conferences.

Drive net-new enterprise sales for Evinova Unify, an AI-powered clinical operations platform. Responsibilities include territory planning, outbound prospecting, pipeline creation, complex deal execution, executive engagement, value selling, contract negotiation, and cross-functional handoff. The role targets pharmaceutical and CRO customers, requires knowledge of clinical trial technology and regulated environments, and focuses on achieving new-logo and ARR targets while providing market intelligence to internal teams.

Lead corporate reputation, state government affairs, lobbying, policy strategy, community engagement, and health equity initiatives across New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Build relationships with policymakers, payers, trade associations, and community partners; coordinate cross-functional business objectives; analyze legislation; support brand access and expansion goals; manage consultants, budgets, PAC engagement, and regional advocacy programs. The role is field-based and requires significant external engagement and travel.