Cell Therapy
Pubblicato il 23-10-2026 - Astrazeneca in Lombardia
Accountabilities
- Cell Therapy Expertise: Build and continuously maintain deep knowledge across indications and assets; be the go-to expert who shapes guidance, training, and best practices that raise execution quality and consistency.
- Strategic Communication: Lead clear, compliant communications that convey strategy, portfolio breadth, and product differentiation; align messaging across regions to ensure consistency for assigned protocols and sites.
- Site Readiness and Training: Support and deliver site initiation content and advanced protocol education; implement competency-based training to drive readiness, shorten start-up timelines, and improve protocol adherence.
- Enrollment Optimization: Translate inclusion/exclusion criteria and patient flow into pragmatic site actions that raise enrolment rates, reduce screen failures, and minimize attrition.
- Insight Generation and Continuous Improvement: Capture and synthesize field insights on feasibility, bottlenecks, and patient pathways; support protocol and process adjustments and drive preventive actions to reduce deviations and data queries.
- Local Initiatives and Scaling: Co-create and implement high-impact local initiatives with trialists and key experts; track outcomes and scale successful approaches aligned to program priorities for broader impact.
- Scientific Engagement and Governance: Facilitate timely, high-quality scientific dialogues with investigators and internal partners; capture learnings and ensure governance compliance.
- Cross-Functional Coordination and Service: Coordinate with Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Supply/Logistics, Patient Operations, and Country teams to provide rapid,
reliable service to study sites; Compliance and Regulations: Maintain current knowledge of local regulations, guidelines, and internal policies; translate requirements into site actions to support inspection readiness.
- External Engagement and Innovation: Attend relevant scientific meetings; synthesize and share insights. Build relationships across the ecosystem to identify, pilot, and scale innovations that shorten cycle times, improve quality, and enhance site experience.
- Country Strategy and Governance Alignment: Provide country-specific field insights to priority initiatives; shape strategies and deliverables for scalable, locally compliant adoption.
- Partner with Medical Affairs on scientific plans and field content; coordinate within governance to reflect market dynamics, ensuring traceability from field signals to decisions and operating within policies and SOPs.
Essential Skills / Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a health-related field required; advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MSc, NP/PA, MD/RN) preferred.
- Strong prior experience in clinical research or field-facing roles within oncology/hematology or advanced therapies; direct cell therapy experience strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of GCP, clinical trial operations, and cell therapy patient journey.
- Excellent stakeholder management, presentation,
and training skills; ability to translate complex protocols into practical site actions.
- Willingness to travel regionally/nationally and internationally to support sites and program needs.
- - Patient- and site-centric mindset with a bias for action and problem solving.
- Data informed approach to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
- Agility to support multiple studies and indications in a dynamic portfolio environment.
Desirable Skills / Experience
- Prior ownership of site performance metrics.
- Prior account leadership and existing relationships in C/D suites.
- Proven ability to lead trainings, influence without authority, and translate complex protocols into pragmatic site actions, adept at concise escalation and stakeholder alignment.
- Prior large pharma experience in cell therapy.
- Scientific training and/or protocol training expertise.
We offer
Salary range: 90.589,60€ - 135.884,40€ per annum
1. Contract Level: Dirigente CBA: Chemical-Pharmaceutical Full-time Permanent position
2. Field base role: Italy
In addition to the Gross Base Salary, we offer:
- An annual target premio governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review/Sales incentives governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review
- Wellbeing benefits (welfare, insurance, psychological support, etc.) governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review
- Company Car governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review
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