Associate Director, Implementation Science

About AstraZeneca 

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceuticals business that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work, where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development. 

The Role 

The Associate Director, Implementation Science is a strategic role within the US Evidence function, accountable for supporting the design and deployment of practice-change interventions that advance a data-enabled mindset shift, address clinical inertia, and accelerate adoption of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and Guideline-Directed Medication Therapy (GDMT) within assigned therapeutic areas. Reporting to Senior Director within the US Evidence Implementation Science team, the Associate Director is deployed flexibly across therapeutic areas based on portfolio priorities, working under the direction of senior team members to drive transforming-care initiatives that strengthen the clinical and economic value proposition of AstraZeneca’s products in alignment with US brand strategy. 

The Associate Director partners with US cross-functional stakeholders (Medical, Field Medical, Market Access, Commercial Insights, and Brand teams) to support practice-change initiatives, applying localized (regional-level) data and personalized insights for precision HCP engagement. The Associate Director maintains current awareness of the evolving US healthcare system — payer environments, policy shifts, quality measures, and value-based care models — and grows in their ability to translate landscape insight into intervention design and tangible patient outcomes. 

This role is designed as a development pathway for emerging Implementation Science leaders, with explicit growth toward Director-level scope over time, including a growing voice as a credible internal partner on care transformation. The Associate Director also contributes to the team’s responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools across barrier identification, intervention personalization, and measurement workflows. 

Key Responsibilities 

Mindset Transformation & Clinical Inertia 

• Contribute to the data-enabled mindset transformation within Medical in assigned disease areas, supporting team efforts to accelerate adoption of EBM and GDMT to improve patient outcomes. 

• Support clinical-inertia diagnosis and intervention deployment in assigned disease areas, ensuring interventions reach the patient populations most affected. 

Driving Practice Change 

• Support the design and deployment of IS interventions — including EHR alerts, disease management tools, population health tools, learning collaboratives, and quality improvement programs — to accelerate adoption of EBM and GDMT and address clinical inertia in priority disease areas. 

• Apply IS frameworks (e.g., CFIR, RE-AIM, ERIC) and behavior change theory to plan, deploy, and measure intervention impact. 

• Champion representativeness and health equity in intervention design, ensuring interventions reach the patient populations most affected by clinical inertia. 

US Healthcare Landscape Awareness 

• Maintain current awareness of the US healthcare system, including the evolving payer and policy landscape, quality measure environments, value-based care models, and guideline development processes. 

• Apply landscape awareness t