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Director, Early Oncology Lead

AstraZenecaWorkdayShanghai Jing'An Office
Posted 16 OctFound 24 OctSeen 11 hours ago

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The Posting

Typical Accountabilities:

  • Uses expertise and knowledge of disease to develop/lead disease strategy for inclusion into annual TA strategy.
  • Responsible for managing the clinical development strategy and plan in the disease area.
  • Provides strategic medical input to the global clinical development strategy as required
  • Accountable for successful conduct and delivery of all in-scope clinical studies.
  • Lead China to join global early development
  • Accountable for the overall clinical, scientific content within the Clinical Project team.
  • Follows important developments and trends in scientific literature, and educate the team accordingly.
  • Leads scientific communication and preparation of higher level documents in the registration process
  • Recognized as a scientific and opinion leader of the discipline, represents AstraZeneca and its Physicians at external events, develops and maintains contacts with opinion leaders.

People management role:

  • Leads, guides, evaluates and develops the team within own area of Physicians to ensure that the area achieves its objectives and complies with all relevant regulations and laws.
  • Provides coaching and mentoring to the team physicians in both technical and career development.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience: Essential

  • Master degree in medical discipline or above
  • Extensive experience in designing, monitoring and implementing in clinical studies and interpreting trial results
  • At least 10 years overall experience in physician area in drug development in pharma industry with the ability to lead cross functional working groups and teams
  • Strong therapeutic/disease area expertise
  • Proven leadership promoting, motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives
  • Commercial understanding
  • Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical safety, reporting and surveillance processes
  • Strong leadership motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives.
  • Strong entrepreneurship, proactively supports functional and R&D China initiatives, takes accountability to closes the loop including the grey areas
  • Courageous to do the right thing, makes critical decision and be responsible for it.

Desirable

  • PhD in scientific discipline
  • Extensive general medical knowledge
  • Extensive knowledge of the latest technical and regulatory developments
  • Operational expertise in risk management and contingency planning
  • Familiarity with the latest research and thinking
  • Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment
  • Ability to influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
  • Conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking
  • Effective problem and conflict resolution skills and proven team focus
  • Contributes to science with publications, including on high impact scientific journals (needed by role).

Date Posted

16-10月-2026

Closing Date

30-1月-2027

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.

Facts

Source
Workday
External id
R-261978
Location
Shanghai Jing'An Office, China
Remote
Not stated
Employment
Full time
Posted
16 Oct 2026
First seen
24 Oct 2026, 23:05
Last seen
1 Nov 2026, 22:19
Status
Not yet added
Posting id
0ae7870e-004b-5cb3-9cb5-c6813ae2caf1