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Do you have a scientific or clinical background combined with an entrepreneurial attitude and business know-how? Would you like to apply your expertise in a company where we are following the science and turn ideas into life changing medicines? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

Join the Search and Evaluation Department within Business Development and Licensing, Biopharmaceutical R&D with focus on CVRM in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Job description

The Search and Evaluation Director, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, in Business Development and Licensing is a key role in Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca.

You will support global Business Development initiatives and have a direct impact on the scientific strategy and portfolio.

The Search and Evaluation (S&E) group drives search efforts of external innovation throughout the Biopharma R&D community and conducts technical due diligence activities that ensure an in-depth understanding of investment opportunities and provides decision-making tools for the organization.

Who are you?

You have a strong R&D scientific and/or clinical background, business acumen, and excellent communication skills as well as an ability to engage and collaborate across boundaries with an entrepreneurial attitude and delivery focus.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Head of S&E, CVRM, you will be responsible for identifying and evaluating external in-licensing opportunities from academia, biotech’s, and peer-pharma including early research projects, new modality platforms, early and late clinical stage candidates, and Life Cycle Management (LCM) opportunities.
• You will be responsible for representing the Business Development strategy at partnering meetings to identify external assets and opportunities.
• You will integrate input from various functional areas across the organization to create high-quality, clear, and concise confidential evaluation reports of external assets and will provide recommendations to the Head of S&E.
• You will identify and evaluate key strategic collaborations and technical platform capabilities that can enhance the scientific credibility and portfolio of Biopharmaceuticals R&D CVRM.
• You will work constructively with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams including commercial to ensure effective communication, efficient decision-making, to support completion of transactions with BD teams in a timely manner.
• You will track breakthrough innovation, ongoing clinical trials, and market trends of existing external CVRM opportunities using competitive intelligence tools to identify opportunities, threats, and risks in a timely manner.

Culture:

• A dynamic, entrepreneurial, and externally facing organization which enables an internally and externally collaborative culture with calculated risk-taking.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in CVRM and BD teams, and across business to identify and exploit cross-business opportunities and embed best practices.

Education:

• Advanced Degree Required (MD or PhD or PharmD).

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Strong scientific reputation in drug discovery and clinical development.
• Basic understanding of deal-making.
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively.
• Proven leadership abilities in an R&D environment.
• A strong understanding of clinical development experience in CVRM, demonstrating cultural sensitivity and awareness.
• Extensive experience in pharmaceutical R&D, demonstrating international experience in multiple cultures and R&D environments.
• Ability to think critically, creatively, and to anticipate and solve problems.
• Ability to navigate and be successful in a fast-paced, highly-matrixed work environment.

Leadership and Behaviours:

• Excellent communicator who takes responsibility for decisions made. Role model engagement and commitment.
• Able to lead culture shift and raise the bar in performance at all levels in the organization.
• Able and accountable for driving business performance.
• Understand the wider AstraZeneca business priorities.
• Appreciate that scientific expertise needs to be balanced with business leadership.
• Able to actively seek collaboration in a complex matrix structure.

Apply with your CV and Cover letter no later than March 24th, 2025.