Digital Innovation Strategist - Cambridge, United Kingdom - AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

Verified Company

Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As the DSE Team's
Digital Innovation Strategist, you create value for AZ by supporting our mission to make our commercial digital innovation ecosystem more transparent & manageable by the business, more responsive to internal & external opportunities, & more productive of scaled & impactful new uses of digital technology.

YOUR MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES AND TASKS:

Support the discovery, identification, & evaluation of innovative ideas & opportunities. Guide the creation of business cases, help create and manage pipeline processes, & help embed simple, effective innovation practices with our internal customers that empower them to invest more effectively in exploratory digital ideas without requiring direct global digital management.
Build strong internal networks and utilize these networks to create an alwayson ability to identify, track, & report on commercial digital innovation initiatives & investments across all AZ TA's and geographies.
Create reports, updates, POVs and other documents to support leadership decisionmaking processes & use your increasing familiarity with our digital innovation practices to proactively escalate opportunities to improve those practices.
Improve our digital innovation readiness by building tool sets & practices to give us consistent & broad proactive awareness of emerging technical advancements. Support the Innovation Mission Lead in the refinement, prioritization, & communication of the opportunities in these advancements.
Map, monitor our internal commercial digital innovation processes & collaborate to improve.
Cocreate with CDH partner teams a shared framework for assessing innovation opportunities and managing the process of digital innovation according to:
Desirability: Does the target customer / user want or need something new?

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Feasibility: Is the idea feasible with the technologies we have?
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Scalability: Is the idea more of a local or global issue? how many users are targeted?
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Viability: Does the investment pay off?
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Strategic Fit: How much does this fit with the company's goals and strategy?

Act as CDH SME/evangelist on usercentered design & work across the CDH verticals and our partners in R&D & Commercial to drive adoption of effective design thinking where it will deliver substantial, measurable impact.
Key initial focus and delivery includes:
Support or own key deliverables of the DSE Innovation Mission as needed, including Innovation opportunity landscapes & assessments for business leaders.
Partner with the DSE team and Mission Leads to support the successful transition/resolution of the current organization into the remit & structure.

YOUR EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Role Requirements:

Strong digital generalist with strong experience in digital innovation process management
Excellent capacity to reduce complicated technical topics to approachable and actionable briefings
Good working knowledge of the current technology and future directions of the healthcare ecosystems we serve across multiple geographies.
Solid understanding of the core technologies behind digital marketing and digital health services, good understanding of speciality areas like AI/ML is valuable, and a voracious learning curve for new technology is necessary.
Hypothesisdriven thinker with a strong attention to detail.
Demonstrated ability to "own" the definition & evolution of a new role within an established organization
Solid understanding of AZ's retail & specialty pharmaceutical businesses and therapy areas—speak the business.
Equal or more than 5 years in the commercial digital business
Ability to structure & deliver on complex, detailoriented requirements with a strong sense of outcomes ownership
Highly developed communication and influencing abilities across organizational teams and levels in a large complex operating environment
Ability to express complex ideas in clear and compelling way to multiple external and internal stakeholder groups
Entrepreneurial with the highest level of integrity and the ability to foster trust and loyalty
Motivated by delivering digital innovation in service of enhanced patient outcomes and treatment experience