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AstraZeneca

Global pharmaceutical company developing prescription medicines

Manager, PRC Coordinator, Promotional Review & Operations

Business OperationsPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeBoston, MA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Experience in promotional review, MLR/PRC operations, regulated content operations, marketing operations, or a comparable cross-functional environment.
  • Ability to manage complex portfolios, facilitate senior cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver through ambiguity.
  • Working knowledge of promotional material workflows, submission readiness, lifecycle controls, records discipline, and regulated operating procedures.
  • Analytical judgment to interpret operational metrics, identify root causes, and convert insights into action.
  • Facilitation, written communication, stakeholder management, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Own the operating view for assigned portfolios, including launch, campaign, reapproval, expiration, and business-as-usual demand, maintaining an integrated plan of priorities, dependencies, owners, and dates.
  • Use demand, aging, quality, capacity, and workflow signals to identify emerging risks, recommend sequencing, and escalate decisions when launch and business-as-usual priorities compete.
  • Prepare and facilitate planning and prioritization forums that convert forecasts and business priorities into executable review plans and clearly documented commitments.
  • Partner with Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Business Operations, agencies, vendors, and PRO leaders to align expectations and sustain decision continuity.
  • Coordinate intake, readiness, routing, review cycles, PRC and ad hoc meetings, decision and action documentation, final-upload verification, approved-release handoffs, reapproval, expiration alerts, and withdrawal follow-up.
  • Ensure materials are routed through the correct workflow, are review-ready, and meet applicable requirements, policies, SOPs, and operating standards.
  • Maintain accurate agendas, annotations, status communications, decisions, actions, and records, following up through documented closure.
  • Initiate and support approved escalation pathways, including ERC escalation when applicable, and document final decisions and required follow-through.
  • Apply approved intake and readiness checklists to identify missing references, metadata, annotations, support, or other package defects before review.
  • Document rejection, rework, and defect reasons; distinguish coordinator checks from specialist or reviewer judgment and route questions to the appropriate owner.
  • Use monthly and in-cycle signals to identify repeat defects and material trends, without deferring urgent risk action while awaiting formal reports.
  • Lead interventions with Project Owners and agencies using specific examples, agreed corrective actions, accountable owners, due dates, and effectiveness checks.
  • Monitor improvement in subsequent cycles, escalate overdue or recurring issues, and contribute to Submission Excellence training, job aids, and operating standards.
  • Partner with launch leads and business stakeholders to establish review forecasts, priority order, reviewer commitments, meeting cadence, dependencies, and contingency coverage for launch-critical materials.
  • Anticipate volume surges and timing conflicts, surface capacity constraints early, and recommend practical mitigation plans.
  • Maintain disciplined launch execution while protecting business-as-usual continuity and keeping risks, decisions, and recovery actions visible.
  • Monitor volume, cycle time, aging, review readiness, quality, rework, and recurring defects, and translate findings into targeted actions.
  • Intervene on aging materials at defined checkpoints, documenting the blocker, next action, owner, and resolution date, and escalating material risk before timelines are exceeded.
  • Identify and lead process, system, meeting, and operating-model improvements in partnership with PRO Process, Systems, Lifecycle, and Analytics colleagues.
  • Support root-cause analysis, CAPA/deviation evidence collection, corrective-action tracking, and effectiveness checks when required.
  • Serve as the primary coordination point for assigned portfolios, communicating priorities, accountabilities, risks, and decisions clearly and promptly.
  • Hold Project Owners, agencies, and vendors to approved readiness, workflow, quality, and follow-through expectations while maintaining constructive relationships.
  • Support onboarding and training of stakeholders on PRC processes, policies, SOPs, systems, and role responsibilities.
  • Coordinate with service providers and backup resources to maintain coverage and continuity, and flag scope, capacity, or service-standard concerns to PRO leadership.
  • Maintain accurate records, metadata, ownership, distribution lists, rosters, calendars, templates, and portfolio documentation in approved systems and repositories.
  • Support system enhancements, user acceptance testing, adoption, and change communications relevant to coordinator workflows.
  • Protect audit traceability and ensure operating documents, decisions, and handoffs are accessible, current, and sustainable during transitions.
  • Model critical thinking, responsiveness, and escalation discipline; operate independently with sound judgment and minimal oversight.
  • Provide backup coverage, share portfolio knowledge, and support standardized coordinator practices across the broader PRO organization.
  • Coach newer coordinators and contribute practical scenarios, playbooks, and lessons learned to coordinator qualification and continuous learning.
  • Make day-to-day coordination, sequencing, and escalation recommendations within approved PRC governance and portfolio priorities.
  • Own operational follow-through and evidence; specialist medical, legal, regulatory, compliance, commercial, and contractual decisions remain with the authorized functional owners.
  • Escalate unresolved risk, conflicting priorities, recurring quality issues, and material capacity gaps with supporting facts and a recommended path forward.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Veeva Vault PromoMats or a comparable review and approval system.
  • Launch or high-volume/campaign readiness experience is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, medical, or other regulated promotional review environments.
  • Experience supporting launch materials, expedited reviews, lifecycle management, SOPs, training, or process improvement initiatives.
  • Experience working with agencies of record, vendors, and cross-functional review teams.

About the Company

AstraZeneca

Global pharmaceutical company developing prescription medicines

AstraZeneca develops and markets prescription medicines and vaccines worldwide, with a focus on oncology, cardiovascular/metabolic, respiratory, and infectious diseases. Its products work by targeting specific biological pathways or cells, using small-molecule therapies, biologics, and vaccines to treat diseases or prevent infections. It differentiates itself through its dual heritage from Sweden and the UK, a broad pipeline, and strong R&D and collaborations that move from discovery to patient access. Its goal is to improve people’s health by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founded
1913

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