Cell Therapy - Field Clinical Advisor at AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Wellbeing benefits

Company car

Job summary

AstraZeneca Italy is seeking a field-based role in Clinical Operations focused on cell therapy programs. You will build expertise, train site personnel, and ensure protocol adherence across sites and regions.

You will lead strategic communications, optimize enrollment, and drive site readiness while collaborating with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, and Country teams. Willingness to travel regionally and internationally is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a health-related field required; advanced degree 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain deep knowledge across indications and assets; be the go-to expert shaping guidance and best practices.
• Lead compliant communications that convey strategy and product differentiation across regions.
• Support site readiness and provide advanced protocol education with competency-based training.
• Translate eligibility criteria into site actions to optimize enrollment and reduce screen failures.
• Capture field insights and drive actions to reduce deviations and data queries.

Skills

Cell therapy

GCP knowledge

Stakeholder mgmt

Training skills

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelors degree in health-related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

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

1. Contract Level: Dirigente CBA: Chemical-Pharmaceutical Full-time Permanent position
2. Field base role: Italy

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

Why AstraZeneca

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.