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Executive Director Clinical Operations, Program Management (Cell Therapy)AstraZeneca · 4 Locations
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Executive Director Clinical Operations, Program Management (Cell Therapy)

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-19 4 Locations Full-time Hybrid Healthcare Medical
💰 Salary 22,516 GBP–33,774 GBP/mo (270,189 GBP–405,283 GBP/yr) 📊 Market 10,000 GBP–18,000 GBP/mo

About the Company

Are you ready to lead global cell therapy clinical operations across multiple franchises and turn bold science into real options for patients This role puts you at the helm of program-level delivery for early development in vivo, allogeneic, and autologous cell therapies, spanning therapeutic areas from cancer to autoimmune disease. You will translate strategy into execution across a complex, high-stakes portfolio where time, cost, and quality are mission critical. Reporting to the Head of Cell Therapy Clinical Operations, you will partner with senior operational and clinical leaders to shape franchise strategies, drive standardization, and ensure inspection-ready excellence. How would you set the standard for operational delivery while scaling a 50+ person global team across five countries and aligning shared functions like data, logistics, and manufacturing to a cohesive cell therapy strategy Accountabilities: Franchise Leadership: Clinical Operations Strategy: Define and implement short- and long-term clinical operations strategies across franchises, including therapeutic operating models, country footprint and site strategies, and consistent, deliverable operational clinical development plans. Integrated Portfolio Delivery: Provide direct strategic oversight of global cell therapy clinical studies to deliver to agreed time and cost, meeting quality and regulatory standards across the portfolio. Governance and Decision Quality : Serve as a core me

Requirements

  • ● Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • ● + years of proven Drug Development experience, with direct experience in clinical drug development setting, including direct clinical operations experience
  • ● Line management expertise; experience of performance management of Snr Director level Staff in a large pharmaceutical or biotech setting of teams of 20+.
  • ● Demonstrated development of others, identifying and providing opportunities to improve the capabilities of other people
  • ● Functional Experience in contributing meaningfully to Clinical Operations functional improvement initiatives that cross clinical programs management experience, managing resourcing, budget planning and functional level activities
  • ● Professional excellence: Background of high professional achievement and willingness to encourage this in others - Leads change with a positive approach; sees change as an opportunity to improve performance and add value to the business
  • ● Influencing and stakeholder management
  • ● Supplier/Partnership Management
  • ● Excellent communication skills - Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global environment
  • ● Creative and Innovative: Seeks to improve continuously where it counts, based on good awareness of external competitive practice, and creativity and initiative
  • ● Output/delivery focused - Maintains high standards, including a commitment to AstraZeneca values, policies and employment principles
  • ● Cultural Awareness: Is aware of and sensitive to cultural differences and their impact on communication, expectations and performance.
  • ● Teamwork and cross functional Collaboration: Is effective in leading and being a member of teams, both locally and internationally.
  • ● Willingness to travel domestically and internationally
  • ● Advanced Degree (M.S, MBA, PhD)
  • ● + years of clinical and pharmaceutical drug development processes
  • ● Business planning skills: has knowledge/experience of planning processes used in managing drug projects
  • ● Risk and crisis management experience
  • ● 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.