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 centered development.

The role will support with portfolio planning, milestone tracking, risk and issue management, metrics, tracking and reporting to demonstrate adoption, business value and continuous improvement. This will be achieved though coordination of cross-functional workstreams,



vendors and external partners.

Role-specific accountabilities: R&D; External Partnership Enablement (Patient Advocacy Groups)
- Improve and scale R&D; capabilities to compliantly engage with global Patient Advocacy Groups, in line with external codes, internal guidance, modern best practices, and Global Corporate Affairs policies and standards.
- Partner with PCD directors, Integral Corporate Affairs, therapy area teams, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, Finance and other cross-functional stakeholders to establish and maintain robust PAG engagement processes and capabilities meeting current needs, enable robust future practice, and support aligned enterprise understanding and activation.
- Orchestrate cross-functional R&D; deliverables within CMO to build, implement and continuously improve PAG engagement capabilities, including work guidance, SOPs, tools, training and resources.
- Establish and maintain Patient Exp

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