Associate Director, Clinical Trial Safety Scientist Full-time NEW

Associate Director, Scientist

The Trial Safety Review Center (TRISARC) is a department in the Research and Development function of AstraZeneca. The primary remit of TRISARC is to review large amounts of medical (mainly safety) data flowing through the clinical trial environment to ensure patient data is complete and medically accurate thus allowing study physicians and clinical/project scientists to interpret medical/safety data efficiently. Associate Director, Scientist must be a science-driven individual experienced in review of clinical data. He/she will work in close collaboration with the Study Physicians and Clinical/Project Scientists providing them consolidated data supporting high quality medical/safety evaluation. The role will have a focus on late-stage clinical trials within the program/molecule/indication level as well as on early phases according to the business needs. The role can be associated with a set of responsibilities of TRISARC's project leader and/or TRISARC's program/molecule/indication leader.

Typical Accountabilities

• Collaborate with Study Physician and/or Clinical/Project Scientist and other study team members, if applicable, providing scientific and operational input as well as oversight of TRISARC team dedicated to study start-up, maintenance and closure activities and give consistent program/molecule/indication level input into generation of the relevant documents and tools configurations
• Oversee the process implementation and ongoing review and querying of critical clinical/safety data to ensure scientific quality and standardization on a program/molecule/indication level
• Ensure seamless and complete clinical data review
• May support TRISARC scientists in day-to-day handling and querying of clinical/safety data within assigned projects and will review the data for medical completeness, scientific accuracy, and coding consistency
• Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration between TRISARC staff and all stakeholders engaged in clinical/safety data review on a program/molecule/indication level
• Ensure feedback collection, lessons learned sharing, and transfer of learnings between studies to support high scientific and operational quality and standardization within program/molecule/indication
• Support TRISARC Director on a program/molecule/indication level to ensure scientific and operational standards implementation for clinical/safety data review
• Report and escalate to TRISARC Director progress/issues and risks on assigned program/molecule/indication level
• Support TRISARC Senior Director, Directors and/or Associate Directors in resourcing, training, goal setting, efficiency and quality metrics settings and performance management of TRISARC personnel on a program/molecule/indication level
• Assist TRISARC Directors/Associate Directors with recruiting and retaining talent, including building effective teams
• Support TRISARC Senior Director, Directors/Associate Directors in alignment with stakeholders and important functions involved in handling and interpretation of clinical/safety data
• Support TRISARC Senior Director, Directors/Associate Directors in building and implementing of the TRISARC's strategy focused on constant improvement of the processes, tools, the scope and ways of working; being responsible for the delivery of selected strategic goals, leading or co-leading of strategic initiatives
• Act as a trailblazer in the clinical projects new for TRISARC – from the therapeutic area/indication/molecule perspective as well as the new scope and new tools & associated processes perspective
• Act as role model of TRISARC project leader/project expert – either as the project Primary Point of Contact (POC) and/or clinical/safety data reviewer in the studies of high complexity and importance for AstraZeneca
• Project subject matter expert for any topic related to handling of medical/safety data, such as review for medical completeness, medical accuracy, and coding consistency
• Mentor and trainer for more junior staff to ensure consistent processes and efficient review of critical medical/safety data across studies within the same molecule/program/indication, contributing to development of onboarding and mentoring processes in the department
• Lead quality of own deliverables and oversee quality of more junior staff by performing regular quality checks on study level

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Advanced university degree in a medical/life science field
• Minimum 3 years of experience working in clinical research, pharmacovigilance and/or safety and clinical data review methodology or equivalent combination of scientific research activities
• In-depth understanding of the clinical study and drug development process and GCP/ICH guidelines; extensive knowledge of applicable regulations and guidelines, including SAE reporting requirements
• Proven project management capabilities; ability to manage change, risks, priorities and performance targets; showing excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task in a high-volume environment with shifting and/or competing priorities
• Solving complex, diverse, multifactorial problems; managing change and uncertainty – for self and teams; supervising others' work and providing support; setting own and team objectives, aligning with business objectives/strategy
• Supporting departmental / functional direction and articulating opinions and ideas
• Managing/negotiating diverse/conflicting stakeholder interests; multidisciplinary communications and two-way influencing; presenting and collaborating, securing buy-in on complex problems with diverse audiences
• Excellent knowledge of spoken and written English – communication in a scientific environment; computer proficiency
• Creativity, innovation, and results orientation; presenting AZ Values and Behaviours

Desirable

• Experience in usage of systems and tools supporting review of clinical data, for example: REACT, SENTRI, GPR, J-review, Rave; extensive experience in remote review of patient-level clinical data, including clinical data querying and MedDRA coding review
• Adept at building presentations and presenting scientific results to multidisciplinary teams and key stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills and ability to concisely summarize large amounts of complex information in the scientific environment
• Ability to adapt to new IT solutions, develop advanced computer skills to increase efficiency in day-to-day tasks

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.