AstraZeneca Posted June 12, 2026

【AstraZeneca】【CET】Medical Lead,Field Capability & Launch Excellence部

Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan Full time
Information Technology

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About this opportunity

Role and Responsibilities

Maximize business value through Medical platform strategy, operational excellence, and sustainable system management Lead initiatives to optimize Medical platforms and business models, enabling AZKK’s future Medical events and operations to be executed smoothly and cost-effectively.

Lead all projects, including new initiatives utilizing cutting-edge AI technologies, RWD-driven use cases, JDH-enabled data integration, and SAS-based analytics capabilities in the Medical domain.

Accountable for IT projects and system operations across the full lifecycle, including Incident, Problem, Change, Service Level, and Configuration Management.

Lead IT planning processes for new Medical business requirements, ensuring sound business cases and alignment with strategic goals.

Develop service transition plans to ensure delivered solutions are sustainable in production environments, including controlled handover to operational support teams.

Initiate, lead, and support IT projects in accordance with defined goals, timelines, and budgets.

Ensure compliance with AZ global IT policies and guidelines, including ADF, SOPs, quality standards, and technical best practices.

Platform Management:

Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Medical platform for Medical, ensuring its availability, performance, and reliability.

Implement standard methodologies for platform maintenance and optimization.

Collaborate with Medical units to understand their needs and requirements.

Ensure adherence to best practices in platform development and customization.

Manage and document changes to the platform, ensuring that changes are properly tested and do not disrupt ongoing operations.

Implement and carry out organizational change/launches/indications processes and policies.

Make roadmap and implement.

Vendor Management:

Maintain vendor engagement ownership in managing platform vendor strategies, roadmaps aligning to Commercial IT business needs

Maintain accountability for party supplier performance and ensure impact assessments drive improved performance outcomes from external delivery sources.

Education, Qualifications and Experiences

Graduate degree and relevant work experience in computer science or similar.

10 years+ experience in a similar or related role with a proven track record of delivering results and making the connections between technology and business benefit/value.

Proven experience of IT projects, Deployment, Operation & Maintenance relevant to commercial systems of the global companies.

Deploying business analysis techniques to enable business change, or complex systems operations.

Experience of business demand intake, selection solution, implementing the solution and run the platform with continuous Kaizen.

Medical/R&D related systems experience of manage and development in pharma industry

Salesforce Platform/AWS Certified and expertized in advanced custom solutions and new capability design

Expertise in Web and Mobile Application Engineering

Project management experience with internal IT, business stakeholders and external vendors.

Strong engagement, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation.

Native or Business level Japanese

Business level English (meeting facilitation level)

Having growth mindset, good team player and appreciate Diversity and inclusion.

Preferred Skills and Capabilities

Fundamental knowledge of Budgetary Control, Activity Planning/Control, based on their mechanism as well as the knowledge of commercial businesses.

Business acumen, Business process management, Customer focus, Stakeholder management

Experience with other cloud-based services

Ability to work well in a team and cross-functional environment, as well as work independently with limited supervision.

Ability to work successfully under pressure in a fast-paced environment and with tight timelines.

ITIL certification

Experience with real-world data (RWD), enterprise healthcare/data platforms such as Japan Data Hub, and analytics tools/platforms such as SAS.

Key Relationships to reach solutions

All levels from Sales Management to MSLs in the Business, Global Process Owners, Program Managers of Global Commercial IT, Local CET Groups

Location

Osaka or Tokyo

Career Level

E

Date Posted

12-6月-2026

Closing Date

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.

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1097 comparable Information Technology roles across 55 biopharma companies.

1097Comparable roles tracked
1036Currently active
55Companies hiring similar roles
29Countries represented

Salary context

143 of 1097 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Senior Data Security Engineer (Insider Risk Management – Engineering) · AbbVie $0/hr – $0/hr (≈ $0–$0/yr)
Highest disclosed · Senior Director, Targets and Mechanisms Solutions · Pfizer $230,900/yr – $384,800/yr
Peer group range $0 – $307,850 (median $165,900)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1097 comparable roles

India507
United States241
Spain106
Poland72
Portugal32
China13

+ 23 more countries

Seniority mix

612 of 1097 peers have a known seniority level

Senior290
Manager135
Associate52
Principal50
Associate Director39
Director28
Senior Director13
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc4
Executive/VP1

Therapeutic area mix

1 of 1097 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

40%
Associate Director IT, Business Partner, Analyst & Patient
Novartis · Toranomon (NPKK Head Office), Japan · Associate Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
40%
【今市】Site MSAT(Manufacturing Science and Technology) Lead Imaichi
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
40%
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Lilly · Hyogo, Japan · Principal
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
25%
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.