AstraZeneca
Are you ready to lead country-level clinical study delivery that accelerates breakthrough medicines to patients? As Local Study Associate Director, you will turn complex operational challenges into precise execution that safeguards data quality, drives recruitment, and keeps studies inspection-ready.
In this role, you will lead Local Study Teams across multiple sites, aligning seamlessly with the Global Study Team to deliver on country commitments with pace and rigor. You will be accountable for end-to-end study execution in country—feasibility, site selection, submissions, monitoring, data delivery, and close-out—while ensuring full adherence to ICH-GCP, local regulations, and AstraZeneca standards.
Do you thrive in a matrix environment where your decisions shape timelines, budget stewardship, and stakeholder confidence?
You will leverage clinical operations expertise, risk-based thinking, and technology to remove barriers, anticipate issues, and enable high-quality, on-time delivery. Your leadership will connect investigators, monitors, and cross-functional partners to the shared goal of generating robust evidence that can transform patient care.
At least 2 years of current experience in the same role role
Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (preferably life sciences) or equivalent qualification. Previous pharmaceutical industry experience, preferably in Clinical Operations (CRA, SrCRA) or related fields.
Drug development process, GxP processes, ICH-GCP, country regulations, AZ therapeutic area knowledge, clinical study management, project management, monitoring, study drug handling and data management.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Advanced degree in life sciences or a related field.
- Demonstrated leadership of country-level delivery across multiple complex interventional studies.
- Proficiency with CTMS, eTMF, and finance systems; experience building operational dashboards for study oversight.
- Strong record of audit/inspection readiness and managing CAPAs to closure.
- Hands-on experience with risk-based monitoring approaches and quality by design.
- Proven ability to design and optimize recruitment/retention strategies using data and site insights.
- Vendor oversight and contract/budget negotiation experience.
- Fluency in local language(s) in addition to English.
- Experience coaching and developing CRAs/CSAs and leading change in process improvements.
- Established relationships with academic networks, research hospitals, and key investigators.
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. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Here you will join a community that relentlessly follows the science—combining deep disease understanding with digital, data science and AI to unlock the next wave of breakthroughs. We bring together diverse perspectives from industry, academia and biotech, putting unexpected teams together to spark bold thinking and faster progress. Your leadership in-country will directly strengthen a pipeline designed to treat, prevent and modify complex diseases, with genuine line-of-sight to patient impact. We champion curiosity, decisiveness and resilience, and we value kindness alongside ambition—equipping you with the tools, partners and trust to deliver outcomes that matter.
Take the lead in shaping country study delivery that turns cutting-edge research into real-world impact—send us your CV and help speed life-changing medicines to patients.
Date Posted
01-jul-2026
Closing Date
21-jul-2026
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.