We're building a connected, end-to-end Enterprise AI engine - uniting data foundations, AI technology, process reinvention, and business-facing AI to accelerate results across the whole value chain. Success depends on being exceptional connectors: you'll actively leverage existing capabilities, celebrate and promote reuse, export breakthrough ideas across geographies and functions, and obsess over scaling impact rather than building in isolation. If you thrive in high-collaboration environments where your role is to turn complex, cross-functional problems into reusable, enterprise-wide capabilities - and where the measure of success is adoption and scale, not just innovation - you'll have the platform (and sponsorship) to make it real.

This role sits at the intersection of AstraZeneca's Clinical Intelligence and RWE teams and the rapidly evolving external ecosystem of AI/ML platform companies, foundation model developers, multimodal analytics partners, and real-world data providers. The Data & AI Partnerships Lead will ensure that therapeutic area teams across Oncology (Lung/HNSCC,



Women's Cancer, GI/GU, Haematology) and Biopharmaceuticals (CVRM, Respiratory, Immunology, Infectious Disease) can access, evaluate, and mobilize the right external capabilities — whether those are foundation models, computational platforms, agentic AI tools, or datasets — to power evidence generation, multimodal analytics, and AI-enabled clinical decision-making.

The successful candidate will be a "T-shaped" technical operator — deep in AI/ML and computational partner evaluation, with sufficient breadth in real-world data to initiate and frame data assessments before handing off to TA RWE experts for deep validation. This is not a traditional business development role. In a typical week, this person might be:
• Evaluating a multimodal foundation model partner's approach to integrating imaging, genomic, and clinical data for patient stratification in lung cancer

• Assessing whether an

📌 Partnership Director (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona