Evinova is a new innovative health-tech business with the ambition to deliver industry-leading digital health solutions to the wider healthcare community, to improve patient experience and outcomes. It is a separate company, part of the AstraZeneca group.
Evinova's Digital Patient Products group develops digital solutions to support development and commercial drug portfolios for AstraZeneca and other sponsors. These digital solutions (e.g. Unified Trial Solutions) encompass connected monitoring devices and sensors coupled with medical device software to:
Improve clinical development, through optimising data collection and improving communications between Sponsor, HCP and patients
Provide enriched data sets to support regulatory submissions, and differentiated labelling
Optimize real world medication use by patients and deliver digital interventions to improve clinical outcomes
The Product Manager will lead our work to design and develop an innovative platform for deployment of patient and site facing technologies in clinical trials for Evinova customers. The role will work with other SMEs within and outside Evinova to deliver innovative approaches to deploy products and support the onboarding of new studies in an efficient way securing the highest quality and speed. You will work in a team of Product Managers/Owners to jointly deliver a flexible product that covers most aspects of patient interactions in a clinical trial.
The Product Manager will focus on integration of sensors and wearables and the development of new functionality associated with these devices into the Unified Trial Solution and other future solutions to enable clinical data collection in clinical trials and disease management.
Responsibilities:
You will:
Lead work to design and integrate of sensors and wearables into Unified Trial Solution and other solutions.
Lead work to design and develop new functionality enabled by the collection of data from new devices.
Work closely with the other Product Managers/Owners within Unified Trials as well as other products in Evinova.
Work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team in building and executing an implementation plan. Responsible for stimulating conceptual thinking and creativity and challenging the status quo for continuous improvement.
Need a deep understanding of business needs and users' needs to craft the processes, solution and prioritise improvement needs.
Deliver high-quality, hypothesis tested, business requirements, functional specifications, business processes, and system rules.
Understand the current landscape of similar technical solutions and what their strengths and development areas are.
Deliver effective recommendations for prioritisation regarding the product backlog items to deliver maximum outcome with minimum input in line with business priorities.
Review, analyse and evaluate business systems/processes and user-needs while serving as the key link between digital and IT development teams.
Act as a change agent during the global roll-out of new technologies - embed new tools and technologies into the business and measure success. Provide leadership for those leading the day-to-day implementation of new tools through to completion.
Help build a learning organisation: ensure that any learning associated with the programs is shared within the Evinova.
Essential Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree
Minimum 7+ years of experience
Experience developing remote patient monitoring functionality based on sensor and wearable input (pulmonary RPM would be an advantage)
Experience developing digital spirometry
Familiarity with software development tools - JIRA and confluence.
Life Sciences degree or equivalent experience
Well-developed Product Management skills
Knowledge about Clinical trial delivery
Awareness of GCP, 21 CFR part 11, relevant guidelines from ISPOR, ISOQOL, FDA, EMA
Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners
Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and holds self and others accountable
Senior Customer management skill with together with proven negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal leadership skills
Effective problem and conflict solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and create clarity
Passion for Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making.
Desirable:
Thrives in a fast-paced work environment, comfortable with complexity and uncertainty at times, lots of humour, dedication to deliver outcomes and motivated by the opportunity to rethink our approach to healthcare.
Comfort and skills operating in a heavily matrixed organizations with excellent skills and intuition to manage the needs of various partners.
Ability to rapidly grasp concepts and excellent ability to handle complexity by simplifying it and providing clear directions to the team
Ability to manage and influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
Comprehensive understanding of dynamics affecting the pharmaceutical industry and needs for transformation
Ability to work globally including international travel
So what's next?
Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Fantastic! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours!
Note that many successful candidates do not check every box. Studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our team to assess your application.
In-Office Expectation:
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
