Clinical Trial Liaison, Director – West

Key Accountabilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and coach a regional Clinical Trial Liaison team through clear goals, call plans, ride-alongs, timely feedback, onboarding, capability building, and talent development.
• Drive Performance and Lead Execution: Establish performance expectations, monitor execution against priorities, use metrics and field observations to identify gaps, and coach the team toward improved impact, engagement consistency, and accountability.
• Manage Talent: Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain high-performing Clinical Trial Liaisons while fostering accountability, collaboration, and team health.
• Strengthen CTL Site Engagement: Strengthen scientific engagement with clinical investigators, thought leaders, health care professionals, site staff, and referring physicians to improve understanding of trial protocols, study designs, pipeline assets, and study compounds.
• Strong Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with US Site Management and Monitoring, Clinical Operations, headquarter and global medical teams, MSLs and Clinical Account Directors, and Medical Affairs partners to deliver coordinated site-facing engagement.
• Accelerate Insights to Action: Ensure field insights from investigators and research sites are captured with quality, shared rapidly with the appropriate national and headquarters partners, and translated into practical field actions.
• Lead Change Adoption and Execution: Implement R&D initiatives, remove execution barriers, and reinforce ways of working through training and consistent field follow-up.
• Resource and Compliance Management: Manage regional resources, travel, congress activity, and spend while ensuring adherence to AstraZeneca policies, Medical Affairs standards, and FDA requirements.

Essential Requirements

• Advanced degree in a scientific or clinical discipline, such as MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, NP, or PA-C, or equivalent advanced health practitioner experience.
• 3+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Field Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, or clinical trial research, with a portion of that experience leading teams or demonstrating strong leadership capability.
• Strong experience with clinical research, study site logistics, investigator and site engagement, and collaboration with clinical operations partners.
• Working knowledge of FDA compliance, regulatory requirements, Medical Affairs policies, and appropriate scientific exchange standards.
• Demonstrated ability to translate national strategy into regional account coverage, field plans, and measurable execution priorities.
• Established track record of effective and influential scientific communication, including oral presentations to health care professionals and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, written, project management, and change leadership skills.
• Ability to synthesize field insights, identify execution barriers, and communicate recommended actions clearly across a matrix organization.
• Ability to travel 30-40% of the time, with travel requirements varying by geography and business need.

Desirable Requirements

• Doctorate in bio-sciences, pharmacology, pharmacy, nursing, medicine, or a related clinical or scientific field.
• Previous line management experience in Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, or Field Medical Affairs.
• Three or more years of Medical Science Liaison experience.
• Experience in pharmaceutical industry clinical or preclinical research, drug discovery, drug development, pipeline engagement, or key external expert interactions.
• Experience working in an account-based setting with Commercial Account Directors and other internal matrix partners.
• Experience with clinical trial site education, investigator engagement, feasibility input, patient recruitment initiatives, or trial-enrollment support.
• Entrepreneurial, future-forward attitude with enthusiasm for coaching, change adoption, and advancing patient care.