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Leads cross-functional teams to drive enterprise-wide initiatives within the OBU. Leads critical initiatives and delivers ground-breaking solutions that pave the way to achieving the vision of a best-in-class Oncology commercial organization. Responsible for building plans that will scale across the OBU leveraging innovative ways to people, processes, and technology. Supports Operational & Strategic Workforce Planning, and OBU/Enterprise Future of Work initiatives. Works across all aspects of the commercialization lifecycle and sits at the intersection of business, scientific development, and customer experience. Works with stakeholders across Global, Regions, Markets, and Integrated Business Teams (IBTs) to craft and execute our business and transformation strategy.

Leads the cross-functional teams supporting transformation programs in Clinical Innovation. Collaborates with the senior leaders across all therapeutic areas in AstraZeneca, Clinical Operations, and cross-functional teams involved in clinical development, driving the strategy and vision for products in this area. Responsible for stimulating conceptual thinking and creativity across the team and challenging the status quo for continuous improvement.

Supports the governance of clinical records across all departments and teams supporting clinical trials in compliance with applicable regulations, ICG-GCP Guidelines, and Controlled Documents. Accountable for coordinating proactive support of quality and inspection readiness of TMF and project-specific records across all TA and Business areas. Provides strategic oversight of the P&ES personnel, processes, technology and services within the allocated area. Actively works with global, regional, and local stakeholders to evaluate and understand the business environment internally and externally. Identifies and prioritizes the implementation of alternative strategies for document management and processes related to clinical trial management and study start-up to streamline and automate workflows. Identifies external trends and capabilities and drive automation and continuous improvement in the area of document and clinical trial management. Accountable for the effective and timely communication of information, and for the provision of high-quality training for all new and updated processes, systems, and services within the allocated area. Collaborates cross-functionally to drive efficiency, sustainability and the delivery of business objectives.

Supports the governance of clinical records across all departments and teams supporting clinical trials in compliance with applicable regulations, ICG-GCP Guidelines, and Controlled Documents. Accountable for coordinating proactive support of quality and inspection readiness of TMF and project specific records across all TA and Business areas. Provides strategic oversight of the P&ES personnel, processes, technology and services within the allocated area. Actively works with global, regional, and local stakeholders to evaluate and understand the business environment internally and externally. Identifies and prioritizes the implementation of alternative strategies for document management and processes related to clinical trial management and study start-up to streamline and automate workflows. Identifies external trends and capabilities and drive automation and continuous improvement in the area of document and clinical trial management. Accountable for the effective and timely communication of information, and for the provision of high-quality training for all new and updated processes, systems, and services within the allocated area. Collaborates cross-functionally to drive efficiency, sustainability and the delivery of business objectives.

Responsible for the Medical Information platforms; including the Global Medical Information Platform (GMIP), Veeva Vault (MedComms), and all related reporting and analytics. Accountable for the development of strong working relationships with global Medical colleagues and stakeholders and worked with these groups to document, assess, validate, and prioritize demand. Worked closely with Commercial IT colleagues across Architecture, Veeva COE, PMs, Release Management, and testing to prioritize and deliver this demand. Partnered with BRMs and BAs on the team to ensure the portfolio road map is aligned to business requirements. Performed business analysis and design either alone; delivering small to medium size business change activities; or as a member or lead of a BA team in a large or global business change. Shares best practices by contributing to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.Accomplishments• Increased the Improving IT Systems metric in the Q2 Pulse Survey, a bi-annual survey of employees by +15% for Global Medical Affairs. Within the Strategy and Operations subgroup, the same metric was increased by +19%. • Worked on a cross-functional, cross-departmental, global project that will work to revolutionize the case intake management process by utilizing artificial intelligence and auto-classification. This project is used for for the COVID-19 vaccine. Created the overarching target state architecture alongside enterprise architecture. • Successfully created and launched a release train for the Analytics and Insights for Medical Dashboard. Within Q1 & Q2 of 2020, we delivered a full lift of the dashboard by delivering on 19 tickets. • Launched the AZ Medical Information website analytics dashboard. • Created and successfully launched a plan for IT operational efficiency for Medical Information.• Developed and maintained the core communication strategy for Global Medical IT.

Accountable for developing and executing the internal communications and operations strategy for Global Medical Information (GMI). Responsible for ensuring prioritized initiatives are identified, implemented, and the outcomes measured. Acted as an intermediary between GMI and multiple stakeholders, including Global Medical Affairs and Local Markets, to provide operations management and impactful communications. Responsible for end-to-end business process modeling and analysis. Accomplishments:• Successfully worked on a project team to deliver the Global Medical Content Portals, an online resource for global medical content. Developed and delivered the operational and communication strategy for the portals. After deployment, there has been an estimated global savings of $13 m in 2019 and a local savings of $3.0 m in 2019 across the top 12 markets and use of the portals increased by 250% in 2019.• Worked as the Veeva subject matter expert for the GMIP platform and the global medical content portals. • Involved in multiple technology/system rollouts and deployments as an IT and communications resource.• Built and launched Therapeutic Area (TA) GMI websites to streamline communications.• Developed an internal operational and communications strategy to deliver communications on Workplace, the internal Facebook-style communications platform for AstraZeneca. In 2019, user growth has increased by 71% with 71.4% of members actively participating. • Served as a member of the Medical Information Leadership Team where we were responsible for merging two therapeutic areas into one business unit. This included strategic operational and communications planning and delivery.

Provided day-to-day oversight of the operations of the Health and Social Innovation Lab facility, called The Graduate Research Innovation District (The Grid), including hiring, training, and supervising of student fellows and employees. Cultivated strong entrepreneurial skill development for students, researchers, and professionals through design thinking, lean startup, and team-based experiential learning courses and workshops.Accomplishments:• Planned and launched the grand opening of a new entrepreneurial space on the UMB campus. This included planning and disseminating operations and programming plans.• Created the Grid Pitch & Expo competition where students can pitch business ideas for prizes. This project involved managing the project, recruiting expert panelists, securing grants and sponsorship to fund the project and work with key groups on campus to ensure the competition’s success.• Created a program called the Grid Guild, an institutional workgroup, that worked to unite all the different professional schools on campus around entrepreneurship. • Established and delivered a series of diverse and innovative co-curricular programs that has equipped and empowered interprofessional student teams to impact and address health & social disparities in Baltimore and beyond. • Built and launched the website for The Grid. • Produced an operations plan for the new facility.

Contributed to the development of A.S.A.P.'s strategic goals and objectives as well as the overall management of the application. Created and managed A.S.A.P.'s marketing plan. Advised other key members of senior management on financial planning, budgeting, and cash flow. Represented the technology externally.

Created and implemented new projects that improve the medical student experience and grow the department. Developed the entrepreneurial pipeline within the School of Medicine to increase student tech transfer. Managed all student groups and oversaw all student group financial accounts. Mentored students through the residency process. Planned and coordinated numerous student events, including graduation, throughout the year.Accomplishments:• Developed a Windows Foundation application called Automated Student Affairs Processes (A.S.A.P.) in a team that improved the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) process. This application saved the department $116,000 annually. This application was acquired by the University of Maryland, Baltimore and has been copy written.• A.S.A.P. was licensed to three medical schools resulting in $115,000 in additional revenue for the department in from 2014-2018.• Created and organized a “Shark Tank” style event called The Lightbulb Moment Competition for medical students to present their new business concepts. This project involved managing the project, recruiting expert panelists, securing grants and sponsorship to fund the project and work with key groups on campus to ensure the competition’s success.• Proposed and launched a lecture series to introduce business concepts to medical students.• Proposed and launched a student newsletter to convey information to medical students. Edited and managed the content within the newsletter.• Established a financial accounting system for the tracking and management of student group accounts. Through the implementation of numerous activities, the students have increased total fundraising and this has allowed for more student activities and increased student satisfaction.• Managed and increased the department’s presence on the web.