Are you ready to turn cutting-edge cell therapy science into real-world trial performance and meaningful patient impact?

As the field-facing scientific and clinical expert, you will accelerate study execution and retention, sharpen safety practices, and enable early insight generation that shapes how we run our trials. Your work will translate complex protocols into practical, consistent actions across diverse sites and indications, driving measurable improvements in feasibility, start-up, and conduct.

You will collaborate closely across functions to advance a bold pipeline with speed and quality, connecting therapeutic innovation to the day-to-day realities of study teams and trialists. Picture yourself guiding trialists through the cell therapy patient journey, elevating site performance, and transforming field insights into decisions that improve how we design, run, and scale studies. How would you turn evidence into action and help trial sites deliver with clarity and confidence?

Accountabilities:

- Cell Therapy Expertise: Build and continuously maintain deep knowledge across indications and assets; be the go-to expert who shapes guidance, training, and best practices that raise execution quality and consistency.

- Strategic Communication: Lead clear, compliant communications that convey strategy, portfolio breadth, and product differentiation; align messaging across regions to ensure consistency for assigned protocols and sites.

- Site Readiness and Training: Support and deliver site initiation content and advanced protocol education; implement competency-based training to drive readiness, shorten start-up timelines, and improve protocol adherence.

- Enrollment Optimization: Translate inclusion/exclusion criteria and patient flow into pragmatic site actions that raise enrolment rates, reduce screen failures, and minimize attrition.

- Insight Generation and Continuous Improvement: Capture and synthesize field insights on feasibility, bottlenecks, and patient pathways; support protocol and process adjustments and drive preventive actions to reduce deviations and data queries.

- Local Initiatives and Scaling: Co-create and implement high-impact local initiatives with trialists and key experts; track outcomes and scale successful approaches aligned to program priorities for broader impact.

- Scientific Engagement and Governance: Facilitate timely, high-quality scientific dialogues with investigators and internal partners; capture learnings and ensure governance compliance.

- Cross-Functional Coordination and Service: Coordinate with Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Supply/Logistics, Patient Operations, and Country teams to provide rapid, reliable service to study sites;

- Compliance and Regulations: Maintain current knowledge of local regulations, guidelines, and internal policies; translate requirements into site actions to support inspection readiness.

- External Engagement and Innovation: Attend relevant scientific meetings; synthesize and share insights. Build relationships across the ecosystem to identify, pilot, and scale innovations that shorten cycle times, improve quality, and enhance site experience.

- Country Strategy and Governance Alignment: Provide country-specific field insights to priority initiatives; shape strategies and deliverables for scalable, locally compliant adoption. Partner with Medical Affairs on scientific plans and field content; coordinate within governance to reflect market dynamics, ensuring traceability from field signals to decisions and operating within policies and SOPs.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a health-related field required; advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MSc, NP/PA, MD/RN) preferred.

- Strong prior experience in clinical research or field-facing roles within oncology/hematology or advanced therapies; direct cell therapy experience strongly preferred.

- Working knowledge of GCP, clinical trial operations, and cell therapy patient journey.

- Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, and training skills; ability to translate complex protocols into practical site actions.

- Willingness to travel regionally/nationally and internationally to support sites and program needs.

- Patient- and site-centric mindset with a bias for action and problem solving.

- Data informed approach to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for operational improvement.

- Agility to support multiple studies and indications in a dynamic portfolio environment.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

- Prior ownership of site performance metrics.

- Prior account leadership and existing relationships in C/D suites.

- Proven ability to lead trainings, influence without authority, and translate complex protocols into pragmatic site actions, adept at concise escalation and stakeholder alignment.

- Prior large pharma experience in cell therapy.

- Scientific training and/or protocol training expertise.

We offer:

Salary range: 90.589,60€ - 135.884,40€ per annum

Contract Level: Dirigente

CBA: Chemical-Pharmaceutical

Full-time

Permanent position

Field base role: Italy

Benefits:

In addition to the Gross Base Salary, we offer:

• An annual target bonus governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review/Sales incentives governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review

• Wellbeing benefits (welfare, insurance, psychological support, etc.) governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review

• Company Car governed by the Company’s policies as amended from time to time and subject to periodic review

Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, internal organizational equity and other relevant factor.

We carefully consider all applications, including those from candidates eligible under Italian Protected Categories legislation (Art. 1 and Art. 18, L. 68/99).

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a team advancing one of the most ambitious oncology pipelines, where cell therapy innovation and decisive science meet real patient needs. You will work with novel modalities and data-rich programs, partnering across disciplines that put unexpected teams in the same room to unleash bold thinking. We value kindness alongside ambition and empower people to communicate bravely, challenge the norm, learn fast, and turn insights into action. Your field expertise will directly shape how we generate evidence and run studies, tying rigorous execution to outcomes that matter for patients and for the future of cancer treatment.

Call to Action:

Step into a role where your field leadership turns pioneering cell therapy into faster, higher-quality trials and tangible patient impact—submit your application to shape what comes next!

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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.