Director, BioPharma R&D Strategy & Forecasting

ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca is seeking a Director, BioPharma R&D Strategy Analyst to connect R&D strategy with commercial forecasting, informing portfolio prioritization and decision-making across disease areas. You will lead long-term projections, integrate diverse data sources, and drive scenario-based insights for senior leadership.

Based in the Cambridge area, this role partners with science, clinical development, BD&L, and CI to ensure robust, business-relevant guidance and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative, scientific, or business field.
• Strong consultancy, analytics, portfolio strategy, or CI experience in pharma.
• Hands-on model ownership across short- and long-term horizons.
• Expertise in scenario-based forecasting and driver-based narratives.
• Ability to integrate diverse data (epidemiology, CI, RWD/RWE) into forecasts.
• Knowledge of time series, causal inference, and ML approaches.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Create long-term projections for disease areas to inform portfolio prioritization.
• Support R&D decision making on targets, modalities, indications.
• Integrate primary research and external signals into projection models.
• Identify risks and opportunities via scenario analyses and readouts.
• Collaborate with R&D, BD&L, finance, CI to align assumptions.
• Lead enablement forecasting analytics and manage external vendors.

Skills

Forecasting

Strategic analytics

Data integration

AI/ML awareness

Portfolio strategy

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

R&D biology knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/scientific or business field

MBA / MS / PhD desired

Tools

R/Python

Excel

Modeling tools

Job description

AstraZeneca is seeking a Director, BioPharma R&D Strategy Analyst to connect R&D strategy with commercial forecasting, informing portfolio prioritization and decision-making across disease areas. You will lead long-term projections, integrate diverse data sources, and drive scenario-based insights for senior leadership.

Based in the Cambridge area, this role partners with science, clinical development, BD&L, and CI to ensure robust, business-relevant guidance and governance.