About Astellas:
At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.
We pursue innovative science, focusing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions.
We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.
Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.
We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their care-givers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.
Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.
The Opportunity:
You will be an individual contributor within the global Quantitative Sciences and Evidence Generation (QSEG) team. Your primary responsibility is to lead the development and adoption of digital health technologies (DHT) within clinical drug development programs. In this role, you will define and own the DS DHT Strategy, which includes assessing the DHT vendor landscape, creating technology enablement plans, optimizing digital dataflows and integrations, overseeing vendors, and managing QSEG-related operational processes to support DHT adoption by clinical drug development program teams.
Hybrid Working:
At Astellas we recognise that our employees enjoy having balance between their professional and home lives. We are proud of our hybrid approach which empowers you to have flexibility on whether to work from home or in the office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides industry level digital health technology implementation expertise to inform and influence Development Project Core teams / Core Medical teams regarding design and execution of high value digital health solutions per the asset’s Global Development Plan.
- Develops implementation and operational plans and provides support for digital health technology solutions for drug development programs / marketed products as a standalone component or part of an overall program level DCT implementation.
- Creates and manages the overall Digital Health Technology (DHT) strategic plan. This includes development of a suite of technology tools and their respective tool kits including the implementation framework from the process, systems, roles, regulatory, quality and change management perspective.
- Accountable for system/technology performance and vendor oversight, project budget, stakeholder communications/change management, resolution/mitigation of issues and risks.
- Operational leadership for digital health system vendors and solutions, including supporting DCT toolkits with playbooks for teams.
- Closely collaborates with the Clinical Operations to ensure technical, digital health components to enable DCT as defined in the strategic plan are aligned with the overall DCT roadmap and TA asset needs.
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Extensive related experience in pharmaceutical, clinical research or health services industry with experience leading technology implementations for clinical trial execution.
- Industry-level expert with DHT solutions (eSource, wearables, EDC, and/or eCOA systems/devices), including implementation of such systems.
Preferred Experience:
- Professional Certification in a clinical development discipline
Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in a biological science, statistics, health-related or computer science field. Advanced degree preferred or equivalent.
Additional Information:
- This is a permanent, full-time position.
- This position is based in the United Kingdom
- This position follows our hybrid working model. Role requires a blend of home and a minimum of 1 day per quarter in our Addlestone/Warsaw office. Flexibility may be required in line with business needs.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
#LI-Addlestone
#LI-Hybrid