Enterprise Innovation Manager Barcelona

MISSION

Enterprise Innovation Directorate (Madrid & Barcelona) drives, orchestrates, and scales innovation by connecting science, technology, and talent with AstraZeneca’s priorities and the Marketing Company in Oncology and BioPharma. Works with the Madrid Innovation Hub and the Barcelona Global Hub, maximizing the ecosystem (startups, hospitals, universities, technology centers, and corporations) and supporting the Science & Innovation pillar in Barcelona to execute tactics, align stakeholders, and measure impact.

Role: The Enterprise Innovation Manager holds end-to-end responsibility for implementing the Enterprise Innovation strategy, translating the Director’s priorities into actionable plans, portfolios, and tangible outcomes for the Madrid Innovation Hub and the Barcelona Global Hub. With senior accountability, the role leads cross-functional execution without direct line authority, establishes operational governance (roadmaps, cadences, KPIs/OKRs, reporting), and coordinates partnerships and initiatives across the innovation, science, and entrepreneurship ecosystem (startups, hospitals, universities, technology centers, and corporations), while overseeing administration and compliance (SOWs, POs, contracts, MSAs/NDAs). In Barcelona, the Manager follows through on the Global Hub’s Science & Innovation strategy and ensures tactical execution, contributing to the maximization of value from science and innovation initiatives and collaborations by defining success metrics, tracking impact, and scaling what proves effective.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supporting health-innovation ecosystem activities and partnerships

• Ecosystem Support: Facilitate interactions with startups, hospitals, universities, technology centers, and corporations. Coordinate logistics for innovation activities, challenges, and sector events (e.g., MWC, open innovation challenges…). Identify new opportunities aligned with Hub team priorities.
• Leverage Ecosystem Activities: Capitalize on Hub initiatives by generating connections, opportunities and transferable learnings. Capture insights and best practices to create value for the bioregion and for the country.
• Ensure Value and Impact: Contribute as a senior expert to deliver on objectives, metrics, and expected benefits. Support the design and structuring of pilots and collaborations demonstrating clinical, operational, or business value.
• Ecosystem Orchestration (Barcelona Focus): Ensure execution of Barcelona-based partnerships and projects aligned with the Science & Innovation strategy, patient identification acceleration, R&D process improvement, and commercial excellence.
• Strategic Alignment: Coordinate with the Director (strategic sponsor) and Enterprise Innovation Team, Hub leaders, and cross-functional teams to avoid duplication and maximize the impact of activities and projects.
• Partnership Governance: Support the governance, contracting processes and operational frameworks required for partnership execution.
• Financial Tracking: Support budget monitoring, reporting and coordination for the Science & Innovation budget.
• Support to Project Leads: When projects are led by Engagement Team members, act as a delivery partner, providing structure, cadence, and strong operational execution.
• Cross-functional Coordination: Ensure alignment with Communications, Government Affairs, and the Science & Innovation Engagement Team to enable smooth delivery of activities and projects.
• Knowledge and management of consortium projects: providing execution support and ensuring full alignment with the Science & Innovation Pillar.

Execution of Science & Innovation projects, governance and strategy

• Operational Support for the S&I Pillar: Support the execution of internal forums, strategic meetings, and team follow-up. Coordinate multidisciplinary projects, ensuring resources, roadmap delivery, and milestone completion.
• Strategic Cadence & Commitment Tracking: Maintain consistent communication forums between the S&I Pillar, Enterprise Innovation leadership, and teams involved in innovation projects.
• KPIs and Reporting: Define, track, and report operational and tactical KPIs to enable strategic oversight and decision-making.
• Strategy-to-Execution Conversion: Translate the Barcelona S&I strategic priorities into quarterly and annual roadmaps, defining milestones, owners, dependencies, and risks. Align with the Madrid Manager on AI-related components and with Specialists for tactical delivery.
• Co-leadership of Core S&I Projects: co-own and co-lead key end-to-end initiatives such as the Global Hub Barcelona Open Innovation Cha