Job ID R-257914
Date posted 08/10/2026
Location: Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home)
At AstraZeneca, we're not afraid to do things differently. We're resetting expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're establishing new ways to work, with ground-breaking and cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together.
The BioPharmaceuticals unit (BBU) of AstraZeneca focuses on development and commercialization of AstraZeneca’s Respiratory, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Renal, and Infectious Disease therapeutic areas. Global Insights and Business Excellence (GIBEx) is a strategic function critical for enabling success in the growth of the BBU business. Our ambition is to build an industry-leading organization, empowering our Commercial teams through the generation of compelling evidence and insights, while ensuring they have the tools and skills to deliver impactful launches that change the practice of medicine for the benefit of patients. Within GIBEx, the Insights, Analytics, and Forecasting (IA&F) function supports both the US and Global organizations and is structured by therapy area: Respiratory & Immunology IA&F, and CVRM (Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolic) IA&F.
Team Overview
The Global CVRM IA&F Early Assets and Business Development team serves as a strategic business partner to the CVRM Early Commercial & Strategy group and the R&D Global Product Teams, providing market insights that drive key commercial investment decisions and therapeutic area strategy development.
Together we strive to uncover deep customer insights to drive improved decision-making and business impact. We are looking for leaders who have the passion to drive business results and bring innovation to what we do for greater impact.
Job Description
The CVRM IA&F Early Assets and Business Development Lead is expected to provide leadership and strategic direction to deliver competitive advantages through the application of end-to-end insights, analytics, and forecasts across the Global markets to support AstraZeneca’s industry-leading CVRM pipeline. Our mission as a team is to improve the quality of the company’s investment decisions to support corporate growth targets. To achieve this, the CVRM Early Assets IA&F team is tasked with delivering excellence in market research, customer and competitor insights, data analytics, and forecasting.
In addition to strong analytical and forecasting skills, the CVRM Early Assets and Business Development Lead should have excellent communication skills with a demonstrated track record of effective business partnership as demonstrated by material business impact and influencing. This position may be required to manage contractors and consultants to complete projects, but will have no direct reports. The candidate will also be required to continuously evaluate new quantitative analytics methods, technologies, and datasets.
This role works closely with CVRM Early Commercial & Strategy, Medical, Epidemiology, HEOR, Market Access and Pricing, Clinical R&D, Finance, and other senior business partners throughout the organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
Instill and reinforce a culture of continuous innovation, improvement, learning, testing, and deployment of new capabilities for the business
Required experience:
Additional Success Factors:
Capability in applying and deploying deep technical skills and knowledge (e.g., modelling capabilities, CVRM disease insights, or data expertise) across IA&F functional areas
Educational requirements
Date Posted
10-ago-2026
Closing Date
30-ago-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.
