Site Engagement Lead, Associate Director (IL, OH, MI, WI)

• Establish strategic partnership models and frameworks for deployment across key clinical sites.
• Strengthen relationships between clinical sites and AstraZeneca teams to enhance performance, resolve obstacles in site feasibility, start-up, and execution, and become the partner of choice.
• Oversee, coordinate, or lead the applicable indication and operational feasibility activities, leveraging AstraZeneca performance data to set realistic, sustainable recruitment targets and strategies. Provide early transparency on recruitment approaches, including use of vendors and site-specific tools.
• Develop knowledge and expertise in applicable therapeutic areas of Biopharma portfolio.
• Implement and maintain site partnerships and initiatives with selected clinical sites.
• Set up and develop the Partners in Care Network (PiCN) within priority disease areas.
• Collaborate with local teams to proactively resolve study-level challenges.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of site processes and institutional practices, guiding study teams and leadership in decisions around site inclusion and study management.
• Define and monitor site performance using objective metrics, develop oversight models, and use advanced tools and informatics. Effectively manage interactions to align site and business expectations.
• Review site performance using available data, identify trends and opportunities, and share insights with both local and external stakeholders to drive improvement.
• Actively monitor and report study-level metrics for activation and recruitment. • Track delivery of site partnership agreements, identify challenge areas, and implement actions for success.
• Routinely update site development leadership or manager on site performance status.
• Escalate unresolved study or site issues to leadership or management as necessary.
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding of site networks, business practices, and the competitive clinical trial landscape to advise clinical teams on site selection and management strategies. Support site identification and selection and facilitate cross-study knowledge sharing when appropriate.
• Maintain awareness of market activities, policies, trends, technologies, and information affecting the business, to support the ongoing improvement of clinical recruitment efforts in line with company policies.
• Collaborate with Medical Affairs and other Marketing Company personnel, with the early asset team, to foster site relationships and identify new clinical sites and optimize feasibility assessments
• Champion recruitment and retention initiatives, drive process improvements within Clinical Operations, and support knowledge transfer and best practice sharing.
• Participate in training and mentoring new members of local study teams, ensuring compliance with ICH/GCP requirements and AstraZeneca procedures.
• Contribute to ongoing process improvements, knowledge sharing, and best practice dissemination.

• Personal Effectiveness & Drives Accountability in Others
• Learning Agility
• Financial, Technology & Process Competency
• Active Listening, Fluency in written & spoken business-level English
• Act with Integrity & high ethical standards
• Effectively lead a team across in-person and virtual settings to deliver shared goals, demonstrates cultural awareness
• Identify and champion more efficient delivery of quality clinical trials with optimized cost and time
• Ability to travel nationally/internationally as required
• Valid driving license, if country employment requirement
• Communication & Teamwork - Influencing, Collaboration, Impactful Site conversations
• Effective, risk-based thinking - Plans & Aligns, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Effective Issue Management
• Deliver Priorities Results & Impact - Recruitment/Retention Planning & Action, Ensures Accountability, Empowerment & Delegation
• Leadership - Feedforward & Coaching, Drives Engagement & Development, Building Effective Teams, Manages Conflict.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world. The annual base pay (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from $137,937 to $206,906. 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 .