Academic Alliance Senior Manager/Associate Director

Support AZ R&D China to form collaboration with: 1) academic research institutes/ clinical centres and 2) AZ Global R&D Alliance.

The scope will include identification of potential collaborator, prioritization of collaboration projects, and support & monitoring of projects. The therapeutic areas will cover Oncology, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, auto-immune disorders, metabolic diseases, and rare diseases.

Typical Accountabilities

• Manage the relationship with clinical/research centres as AZ’s preferred partners for pre-clinical and clinical studies, including managing both sides’ expectation and ensuring the governance requirements
• Cultivate relationships with key stakeholders in R&D China ecosystem to expand and strengthen the collaborations.
• Drive to create and maintain a positive external environment and alliance ecosystem to support R&D China strategy.
• Understand the alliance needs of internal stakeholders, identify optimal alliance solutions aligned with the R&D strategies, facilitate and consult efficient alliance activities.
• Acting as the focal point of AZ R&D to all external inquiries, facilitate to connect and align with strategic partners to frame the strategic alliance projects.
• Monitor all alliance related activities cross R&D China, proactively anticipating risks & needs, and lead resolving the cross-team alliance issues.
• Coordinate and manage external engagement activities including scientific exchanges, forum, R&D China Science Day, etc.
• Work with Global R&D alliance teams to develop and implement integrated strategy for key global partnerships and collaborations.
• Analyse the global site operations & various dept. on their plans and resources, map them to R&D China strategic initiatives, including improving process of submitting scientific collaborations, translational data management & sample acquisition, clinical operations, etc…
• Increase the visibility of China alliance activities to foster good awareness internally and promote collaboration possibilities externally.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Bachelor degree in science with >5 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of drug development strategy and process
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Project management experience and capability, proven experience in alliance/partnership excellence.
• Willingness to work in a global team across multiple time zones and  have cultural sensitivity to influence the key stakeholders.
• Effectively work in a multidisciplinary and across companies environment.
• Demonstrated results-focus and ability to deliver projects through influence, relationship management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to assess and mitigate the issues/risks.
• Ability to travel globally based on business needs.

Desirable

• A postgraduate degree (e.g. MSc, PhD, or MBA)
• Have sufficient knowledge about China pharmaceutical industry (i.e., trends in R&D-related policies and innovation; > 5-year experience in MNCs and/ or consulting companies)
• Have good networking in the target clinical/research centres.

Date Posted

29-9月-2026

Closing Date

30-12月-2026

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