Senior Digital Health Consultant (Pharmaceutical R&D) - Evinova

Senior Digital Health Consultant (Pharmaceutical R&D)  - Evinova

Location: Gaithersburg, MD  

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.  

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.  

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a global health tech business might be for you!  

Transform patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.  

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector.  

The Senior Digital Health Consultant will partner with Pharmaceutical R&D customers to shape, evaluate, and implement digital health solutions that accelerate clinical development and enhance patient outcomes. This role blends strategy consulting, solution design, and delivery leadership, with accountability for P&L ownership, business case development, and value realization. The ideal candidate brings deep experience from a consulting environment, has contributed to clinical/operational protocol development, and has led end-to-end digital health evaluations and implementations across the R&D lifecycle.  

Key Responsibilities  

• Client Leadership & Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to R&D leaders across clinical development, clinical operations, and medical. Shape digital strategies, develop operating models, and roadmaps that align with the development portfolio and individual assets. 

• P&L Ownership: Own engagement-level P&L, including pricing, margin management, backlog forecasting, and utilization planning. Drive account growth through proposal development, upsell, and cross-sell. 

• Digital Health Strategy & Solutioning: Define problem statements, solution options, vendor landscapes, and selection criteria for digital solutions including; patient recruitment, remote data collection and monitoring, ePRO/eCOA, digital biomarkers, and patient engagement platforms. 

• Protocol Development Support: Contribute to study protocol design where digital tools are used (e.g., endpoint rationale, sensor selection, sampling frequency, feasibility, burden, data flows, and risk management). Ensure alignment with therapeutic area strategy and regulatory expectations. 

• Protocol feasibility and execution: Utilise tools to support clinical development and operations teams in optimising protocols through the use of AI driven solutions to minimise cost, accelerate timelines, improve patient and site experience and minimise environmental impact without impacting on scientific quality 

• Evaluation & Implementation: Lead pilots and scaled implementations of digital health technologies, including feasibility studies, validation frameworks, vendor due diligence, interoperability planning, data governance, and organisational change. 

• Business Case & Value Realization: Build robust business cases (benefits, costs, risks, scenarios) and define measurable value frameworks (cycle-time reduction, data quality, patient retention, site burden, cost avoidance). Track and report realized value post-implementation. 

• Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Ensure solutions align with GxP, ICH-GCP, GDPR/CCPA, and relevant regulatory guidance on software and AI. 

• Product, Data, Analytics & Platforms: Partner with Evinova product, data science, science and engineering teams to define and communicate new product requirements based on strategy, including data capture, integration, and analysis plans for sensor/ePRO data, including data standards and quality controls. 

• Change Management & Adoption: Lead stakeholder engagement, training, communications, and readiness activities to ensure adoption across clinical development, clinical operations, sites, and patients. 

• Thought Leadership & Practice Building: Publish results of work in partnership with client teams, Develop white papers, and conference content; refine delivery methodologies and accelerators. 

• People Leadership: Identify and nurture key talent to develop a group of industry leading digital health consultants 

Required Qualifications  

• Experience: 8–12+ years in management/healthcare consulting, with 5+ years focused on digital health within Pharma R&D (clinical development and / or clinical operations, or biomarker strategy). 

• P&L Accountability: Demonstrated ownership of engagement or portfolio P&L, including pricing, margin optimization, and revenue forecasting. 

• Protocol Involvement: Hands-on involvement contributing to or reviewing clinical protocols and operational plans where digital tools inform endpoints, assessments, or data collection. 

• Digital Health Delivery: Proven track record evaluating and implementing digital health solutions (e.g., wearables, sensors, ePRO/eCOA, DHT-enabled endpoints, trial delivery capabilities, patient apps/portals). 

• Business Case & Value Realization: Strong capability in financial modeling, benefits quantification, hypothesis-to-value tracking, and post-implementation value realization reporting. 

• Regulatory/Quality Knowledge: Solid understanding of ICH-GCP, GxP, SaMD, FDA/EMA digital endpoints guidance, privacy and data protection requirements. 

• Technical Fluency: Understanding of technical product management, data architecture, interoperability, data standards, and analytics considerations for high-frequency sensor data. 

• Consulting Core Skills: Engagement management, structured problem-solving, executive communication, stakeholder management, and change management. 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, data science, or related field; advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, PharmD, MBA) preferred. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Therapeutic Area Exposure: Experience with one or more TAs such as CVRM, Oncology, Respiratory/Immunology, or Neuroscience, especially where digital endpoints are emerging. 

• Technical Landscape Expertise: Familiarity with leading eCOA, sensor/wearable, trial design and delivery, and patient engagement vendors; experience running RFPs and technical due diligence. Strong AI capabilities including demonstrated understanding of the role AI will play in drug discovery and development 

• Validation & Qualification: Experience with analytical/clinical validation of digital measures, human factors engineering, and usability studies. 

• Product Mindset: Background in product management for digital tools or platforms used in trials or patient support. 

• Global Programs: Delivery experience across multi-country studies, understanding site/patient variability and localization needs. 

Core Competencies  

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to connect digital health initiatives to pipeline strategy, study design, and operational KPIs. 

• Financial Acumen: Proficiency in pricing, margin levers, T&M vs. fixed-fee structures, and portfolio forecasting. 

• Influencing & Leadership: Comfort leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior sponsors and governance bodies. 

• Communication: Clear, structured written and verbal communication with executive presence. 

• Execution Excellence: Bias to action with disciplined program management and risk mitigation. 

Key Performance Indicators  

• Commercial: Revenue growth, gross margin, backlog accuracy, win rate for proposals. 

• Delivery: On-time/on-budget delivery, stakeholder satisfaction (NPS), risk/issue resolution. 

• Value: Realized benefits vs. business case (e.g., cycle-time reduction, retention uplift, cost avoidance). 

• Quality & Compliance: Audit/inspection readiness, adherence to SOPs and regulatory guidance. 

• Practice Impact: Thought leadership output, methodology improvements, mentoring outcomes. 

Evinova is a global health tech business, separate company part of the AstraZeneca group. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment. We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider life sciences community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients. Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.  

Total Rewards:  

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $ 183.192,80 to $ 274.789,20. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.  

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.