IT Business Partner, Oncology Business Unit and Rare Disease Unit - China Commercial

JOB PURPOSE

Oncology and rare disease is a highly growing business unit of AstraZeneca with the densest brand portfolio, the most intense competitive field, the largest concentration of digital investment, and the highest policy sensitivity. Commercial success highly relies on the speed and excellence of whole business flow from strategy, execution and reflection. 

The role exists to make Commercial IT a genuine partner to the Oncology business rather than a service provider. It is accountable for translating OBU and RDU strategy (including Medical) into a prioritized IT agenda, for end-to-end follow-through of the programes that carry the domain's business commitments, and for coordinating the multiple internal and external parties on whom delivery depends. The role leads one ITBP and is the single front door for OBU and RDU IT demand.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES

1. Strategic alignment and IT agenda for OBU and RDU

• Establish and sustain a structured engagement rhythm with the OBU & RDU leadership team, contributing to annual business planning, brand strategy and investment discussions.
• Translate BU strategic intent — brand priorities, indication expansion timing, competitive response — into a prioritized multi-year IT agenda with clear sequencing.
• Own the trade-off conversation when demand exceeds capacity: state clearly what is done, what is deferred and what is not done, and secure business agreement.

2. Program delivery and follow-through

• Hold overall accountability for progress, quality, risk and interdependencies across all active programes in the domain. Maintain a single, trusted programe view — milestones, resourcing, risks, dependencies — so business and IT leadership operate from the same facts.
• Bring options rather than explanations when delay or scope change occurs: defer, descope, or add capacity, with the business consequence of each made explicit.
• Ensure benefits are defined at approval and measured after go-live; recommend stop or scale decisions on the evidence

3. Medical systems delivery and support

• Own the lifecycle of medical systems in the domain: medical information management, MSL engagement and field medical tools, publication and medical writing platforms, medical review and approval workflows, congress and advisory board logistics. Hold accountability for progress, quality, risk and vendor performance across active workstreams, and maintain one trusted view of status that medical leadership can rely on.
• Ensure every solution is validated to the standard Medical, Compliance and Pharmacovigilance require before release — and that validation is designed in, not retrofitted.

4. Cross-functional coordination

• Align business stakeholders, internal IT functions and external vendors on a single definition of the goal, scope and acceptance criteria.
• Surface and resolve cross-team dependency conflicts early; escalate with a recommended resolution, not a problem statement.
• Act as the single front door for the domain, preventing fragmented demand intake and inconsistent external commitments

JOB REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor's degree or above, in information systems, computer science, engineering, business or a related discipline.

• A recognized project / programe management qualification (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent) is an advantage.

• 12+ years in IT or digital, of which at least 5 years in pharmaceutical or life sciences.

• Direct experience of engaging business leadership as an equal — able to run strategic conversations with a BU management team independently.

• Demonstrated programme-level follow-through across multiple parallel workstreams with cross-team and cross-geography dependencies.

• Working knowledge of how Medical Affairs operates: MSL engagement, medical information, publications, medical review, congress activity and advisory boards.

• Hands-on build or run experience of at least one core commercial system: CRM, MCM, SFE or a commercial data platform.

• Experience operating in a multinational matrix organization, influencing without  line authority.

• Sound knowledge of China pharmaceutical regulation and data privacy requirements applicable to commercial digital solutions.

• Behaviors: prioritization judgement over throughput; information symmetry by instinct; pragmatic problem solving; willingness to state an unpopular position and to change it on evidence.
• Chinese (Mandarin) — native or equivalent professional fluency, written and spoken. English — professional fluency, written and spoken.
• Able to lead discussions and present to global and area stakeholders.

Technical / skill training ：

• Commercial pharmaceutical technology: CRM (Veeva / Salesforce), multi-channel engagement platforms, SFE and commercial data platforms.
• Data and analytics: commercial data warehouse, HCP/HCO master data, attribution and reporting, real-world data foundations；KOL and expert data, insight capture, activity and impact measurement, evidence tracking; data privacy requirements applicable to medical and patient-adjacent data.
• Programme and portfolio management; agile and hybrid delivery models; vendor and contract management.
• Medical and regulatory systems: medical information management, Veeva Medical / PromoMats, medical review and approval workflows, publication management.
• Applied AI and generative AI in regulated content environments, including evaluation and oversight design.

Desirable ：

• Oncology, specialty care or high-value medicine experience.
• Solution experience with Veeva or Salesforce commercial platforms in a China market context.
• Direct experience in a Medical Affairs or Medical Information IT role within a multinational pharmaceutical company. Experience with Veeva Medical, PromoMats or a comparable medical content platform.
• Real-world evidence, real-world data or market access analytics experience.
• Practical delivery of generative AI use cases beyond proof of concept.
• Experience building a capability, team or operating model from the ground up.
• Prior experience as an IT business partner or as a member of a business leadership team

Date Posted

13-11月-2026

Closing Date

30-12月-2026

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