Associate Director managing Patient Assistance Programs at AstraZeneca. Overseeing operations, vendor management, and stakeholder collaboration to enhance access to medications.
About the role
- Director of Digital Strategy & Deployment responsible for digital transformation in the EP/Neuro business. Leading initiatives and processes to enhance medical care through digital strategies.
Responsibilities
- Develop EP/NEURO SC Digital Strategy & Manage Digital Portfolio: Development, evaluation, and execution of the EP/NEURO digital strategy
- Capture all data needs across E2E Supply Chain, in partnership with E2E Functions including JJSC, Commercial, R&D, Information Technology, External Manufacturers
- Lead business SMEs, analyze the end-to-end value chain, identify digital business improvement and external customer opportunities, break-down into manageable components that can be solved by employing digital capabilities including visualization and analytics.
- Develop business cases rationalizing business need to invest with strong quantitative and qualitative benefits
- Lead and represent EP/NEURO on the Digital Council to shape needed capabilities to drive the digital supply chain strategy; oversee the ecosystem of technologies to enable our digital supply chain; connect digital projects across the EP/NEURO Supply Chain and JJSC organization; share & leverage best practice digital strategies with other segments
- Develop and maintain relationships with strategic industry associations and thought leaders; benchmark current capability and identify opportunities for improvement
- Collaborate with external partners as identified to supplement business needs for reporting development and execution
- Create and mature advanced data analytics and AI (fit-for-purpose) capabilities for E2E Supply Chain in partnership with Information Technology and Global/Regional functions
- Develop and implement new innovative insights and business analytics tools to signal detect opportunities and performance
- Implement process automation across functions to improve employee productivity, service, and operations
- Collaborate with manufacturing plant leadership and drive the acceleration Industry 4.0 business cases through delivery to automate and improve processes using technology
- Drive improvement in data-driven decision making including but not limited to aligning data and data systems to meet the needs of the EP/NEURO Supply Chain end-to-end focus
- Measure success through value realization on all EP/NEURO SC digital initiatives in partnership with project leads
- Engage Commercial leadership within each franchise to understand customer needs
- Develop and execute SC customer engagement process, in partnership with platform Product management team and commercial partners
- Translate customer needs (i.e., hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers) into SC solutions, and incorporate into project business case and portfolio prioritization.
Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years of related experience required.
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree required; Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Information Technology, Data Science or related field highly preferred; Advanced degree such as a Master’s degree is preferred
- Strong leadership experience with the ability to lead a cross-functional global teams required
- Demonstrated expertise in programming, statistical and simulation modeling, operations research, data science, and engineering tools
- In-depth knowledge of supply chain and data sources available with a proven track record of developing and successfully implementing data strategy and using multiple data sources for achieving business objectives is required.
- Ability to develop individuals within an organization required
- Advanced knowledge of end-to-end product supply and distribution required, strong understanding of core systems preferred, i.e., ERP, MES, APS
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in bridging technical and business disciplines, evaluating, and determining appropriate risks required
- Project management experience required
- Lean manufacturing and six-sigma methodology experience preferred
- Product cost management and budget management preferred
- Up to 20% of travel both domestically and internationally is required.
- Flexible hours to accommodate multiple time zones when necessary
Benefits
- Retirement plan (pension)
- 401(k)
- Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
- Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
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