Role: Strategy Director (Consultant) – Clinical Development – Evinova
Location: Cambridge UK
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
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 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!
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 engagement: Core member of project / engagement teams to develop & deliver digital health strategies, with the ability to develop into project leader, owning engagement delivery.
- 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.
- 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: Support 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: Previous proven Clinical Development, with a strong focus on application of digital health within healthcare (clinical development and/or clinical operations or biomarker strategy).
- AI in clinical development: Strong AI capabilities including demonstrated understanding of the role AI will play in drug discovery and development.
- Project & Stakeholder Management: Exceptional project delivery and communication capabilities, with a proven 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.
- Project Accountability: Demonstrated significant contributions to projects in clinical development teams, from initiation through delivery.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, data science, or related field; advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, PharmD, MBA) preferred.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- 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 delivering pharmaceutical / healthcare consulting engagements, either within a dedicated consulting organisation (e.g. 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.
Date Posted: 22-Jun-2026
Closing Date: 06-Jul-2026
Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.
Learn more about Evinova: www.evinova.com
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