The Associate Director, Patient Centricity enables patient‑centred practices across R&D; by supporting the delivery of strategy, processes, tools and governance across Patient‑Centred Development (PCD), Representation in Clinical Trials, Health Equity in Science and Bioethics.

Working globally in a matrix environment, the role partners with therapy areas (TAs) and enterprise functions to embed patient voice, generate and apply patient experience data, representativeness, health equity and ethical guardrails into development strategy, design and delivery.

The role helps scale consistent ways of working across the TAs by developing and evolving frameworks, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), templates, training and resources that support compliant, inspection‑ready patient centred development.

The role will support portfolio planning, milestone tracking, risk and issue management, metrics, tracking and reporting to demonstrate adoption, business value and continuous improvement. This will be achieved through coordination of cross‑functional workstreams, vendors and external partners.





Role‑Specific Accountabilities

Patient‑Centred Development Enablement
- Partner with Patient Centricity, therapy area and cross‑functional teams to implement the Patient‑Centred Development framework, ensuring alignment with external expectations including regulators, HTA bodies and payers.
- Support disease‑level patient experience summaries for programme teams, including delivery planning, creation of the summaries, impact measurement, stakeholder engagement and vendor coordination.
- Develop, maintain and promote tools, resources and training that enable effective and consistent adoption of the Patient‑Centred Development framework across teams.
- Manage PCD activity trackers and related operational processes, ensuring alignment with relevant data systems and partnership with PCD Directors.

Essential

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equiva

📌 Associate Director Patient Centricity (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona