US Medical Affairs Oncology - Externally Sponsored Research Manager

Join us to advance evidence that improves patient outcomes in partnership with our US Medical oncology teams. As an ESR Manager, you will serve as the operational backbone for externally sponsored research performed in the USA, aligning to franchise priorities to deliver highquality, compliant studies that inform practice and broaden patient impact. You will partner crossfunctionally to lead endtoend startup and execution with franchise teams and sites: triaging proposals, coordinating governance, guiding ESR processes, and ensuring contracts, budgets, and systems are accurate and current. You will keep programs on time, on budget, and inspection-ready by driving proactive risk mitigation, timely resolution of blocking issues, and clean data across ESR platforms. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and want your work to help more patients benefit from our medicines, we invite you to apply! 

Job Responsibilities 

• Act as the primary local operational contact and liaison for all external sponsor sites and internal cross-functional collaborators for assigned studies. These collaborators include AZ contracting, US Franchises, GMA, and finance. Coordinate effective collaboration and communications between internal collaborators and external partners to enable high quality research projects  

• Provides mentorship to external and internal collaborators on ESR operational processes  

• Manage operational compliance with global and local policies, processes, and procedures within assigned tumor type area(s) to ensure timely, cost efficient and high-quality project delivery. Address urgently compliance issues, advancing problems as appropriate  

• Accountable for accurate and timely study information into ESR management system, and to cross-functional stakeholders (Franchise teams, Finance, Project Managers, etc) ensuring completeness of all information and documentation is complete 

• Facilitate local strategic alignment (LSA) governance meetings (including but not limited to coordination of meetings, meeting minute documentation, reviews proposals for completeness, outcome sharing and follow-up) 

• Ensure timely preparation of research CDAs/CSAs 

• Routinely review assigned study performance and escalate when projects are not being managed to time, cost and quality to franchises, project managers and finance teams. 

• Set up and maintain study budget current and up to date in ESR study management system (e.g., ACCORD as necessary). Ensure accurate payments related to the study are reflected in ESR management system in a timely manner 

• Maintain all data in VCV system up to date, ensuring that portfolio is updated in a timely fashion, at a minimum once per quarter 

• For studies that are not on track, in collaboration with AZ sponsor, ensures corrective action plans are created and documented in ESR study management system and action plans are progressing as planned