AstraZeneca

Delivery Manager - Evinova

AstraZeneca  •  Barcelona, ES (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

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? ThenEvinova might be the perfect next step for you.

We are building software that transforms clinical trials for billions of patients worldwide.Evinovadelivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. We combine deep scientificexpertisewith modern software engineering and artificial intelligence to create new standards across the sector.

We’relooking for a Delivery Managerwho leads from the front andbrings genuine technical depth to the role. You understand how software is architected, built, and integrated — well enough to break down technical work, sequence it, and manage the technical dependencies between teams yourself, not just relay them. You use every tool available — including AI — to drive clarity and outcomes, and you hold the bar high in everything you touch.

About the Role

This role sits at the heart ofEvinova’sproduct and technology organization. You will own the end-to-end delivery of our most critical and complex products and initiatives, ensuring they are delivered with the highest quality into highly regulated environments. You are accountable to the Delivery Director and partner directly with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to make ambiguous, high-stakes technical work happen.

This is not a project coordination role, and it is not a role for someone who manages engineering work from the outside We are looking for a technically fluent delivery leader who can sit in an architecture or design review and follow it, understand the systems, services, APIs, and data flows behind our products, and reason about the technical dependencies and trade-offs that determine whether a plan will hold. Youidentifythe real blockers (not just the reported ones), map and manage cross-team technical dependencies, challenge plans and estimates thatdon’tstand up toscrutiny, anddrive a clear path forward. You will use AI tools as a core part of how you work — to accelerate your own output, surface insights from delivery and engineering data, and help your teamsoperateat a higher cadence.

What You Will Own

Technical Delivery & Dependency Management

  • Break complex, cross-team initiatives down into a technically coherent plan of work — understanding the architecture, services, integrations, and data flows well enough to sequence delivery correctly.

  • Own the identification, mapping, and active management of dependencies across engineering teams, platforms, and external partners — driving them to resolution rather than logging them.

  • Engage directly in architecture, design, and technical planning discussions: follow thedetail, ask informed questions, and pressure-test engineering estimates, sequencing, and trade-offs.

  • Anticipate integration, environment, and release risks (APIs, shared services, data migrations, CI/CD constraints) before they surface, and coordinate the technical work needed to de-risk them.

  • Translate fluently between engineering realities and product/business outcomes so leadership can make informed decisions with a true picture of technical feasibility and risk.

Initiative Leadership & Delivery

  • Own the delivery ofEvinova’smost complex cross-functional initiatives, from framing through execution to value realization.

  • Identifydependencies, risks, and blockers early — and drive them to resolution, not just track them.

  • Lead initiative governance: define the right cadences, the right metrics, and the right stakeholders in the room.

  • Maintain integrated delivery plans that reflect reality, not just aspiration — grounded inan accurateunderstanding of the underlying technical work.

  • Manage resourcesand delivery plans with full accountability to the Delivery Director and Head of Delivery Excellence.

  • EnsureEvinova’sproducts are delivered with high quality and in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures and Policies.

AI-Native Delivery Management

  • Use AI tools (Claude, GPT, Devin, Copilot, or similar) as a daily part of your workflow: generating status summaries, analyzingdeliveryand engineering data, drafting stakeholder communications, andidentifyingpatterns across initiatives.

  • Build and champion AI-assisted delivery practices across your team — automating routine reporting, surfacing technical risks earlier, and freeing the team to focus on what requires genuine judgment.

  • Apply rigorous critical thinking to AI-generated output. You are accountable for the accuracy and clarity of everything you communicate, regardless of how it was produced.

  • Stay current with advances in AI-assisted work management and translate those into practical, team-level improvements.

Strategic Planning & Portfolio Governance

  • Drivecontinuousplanning in collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership.

  • Maintain a single, unified picture of the portfolio — where things stand, wherethey’reheading, and what decisions are needed from leadership.

  • Use data-driven metrics and performance monitoring to track delivery maturity and align outcomes with product and business value.

  • Bring financial accountability to delivery: track budgets, flag variances, and help leadership make informed resourcing decisions.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Design Leads, and Customer Implementation Leads to align on what “done” looks like — and hold the organization accountable to it.

  • Negotiate the occasionally unaligned needs of Development and Customer Implementation teamsin a professional manner that results in positive outcomes forEvinova

  • Navigate organizational and technical complexity with confidence: build trusted relationships across engineering and product teams and levels without relying on authority alone.

  • Represent delivery in leadership forums with clarity, candor, and perspective.

  • Work collaboratively in a cross-functional setting with internal and external partners, including global teams.

Delivery Culture & Continuous Improvement

  • Model a culture wheredeliveryexcellence is an expectation, not an exception.

  • Lead retrospectives and drive systemic improvements — not just one-off fixes.

  • Help teams distinguish between the noise of day-to-day activity and the signal of what’s actually impeding delivery.

  • Challenge the status quo, take ownership, and hold yourself and others accountabletooutcomes over activity.

What This Role Is Not

  • A coordination function that escalates issues butdoesn’tresolve them.

  • A status report factory. AI handles the routine; you provide the judgment.

  • A role for someone whomanages froma distance, or who treats the technical work as a black box. If youcan’tengage with the architecture and dependencies yourself, thisisn’tthe right fit.

  • A checkbox exercise indeliveryprocess. We want someone who builds the muscle, not just follows the framework.

  • A role where AI adoption is optional. We need someone eager to apply AI tools to automate repetitiveworkflow, apply them organizationally, and train others.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in program or delivery management, with a proventrack recorddelivering complex, multi-team software initiatives.

  • 3+ years leading cross-functional programs in a technology or digital product organization, preferably within highly regulated environments with products successfully deployed in Production.

  • Demonstrable technical depth: you can read andreason aboutsoftware architecture, APIs, integrations, data flows, environments, and CI/CD pipelines, and hold your own in technical design and planning discussions with senior engineers.

  • Hands-on background in software engineering, DevOps, or a comparable technical discipline — sufficient to break down technical work, own cross-team technical dependencies, and pressure-test engineering estimates and trade-offs.

  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity: to create structure where thereisn’tany, and drive outcomes without relying on formal authority.

  • Practical, daily experience using AI-assisted tools (Claude, Copilot, GPT, or similar). You should be able to describe concretely how AI has changed the way you work.

  • Superb written and verbal communication — you make complex technical situations clear and know when to escalate versus when to solve.

  • Experience managing matrixed teams and working globally.

  • Bachelor’s degreerequired, preferably in a technical or engineering discipline; advanced degree preferred.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in digital health, life sciences, or other highly regulated technology environments.

  • Familiarity withGxP, ICH GCP, FDA 21 CFR, GDPR, or similar standards in a delivery context.

  • Global delivery experience across geographies and time zones.

  • Experience building or improving delivery management practices from scratch — not justoperatingwithin an established framework.

  • Pharmaceutical industry or clinical trial platform experience.

  • Prior experience as a software engineer, technical lead, solutions architect, or in a comparable hands-on technical role.

  • Experience managing delivery financials: budgets, forecasts, and resourcing models.

What We Look For

We care more about what you can deliver than what you can describe. In our interview process, expect to walk us through real initiatives you’ve led, how you engaged with the technical detail and dependencies, how you used data and AI to drive decisions, and how you’ve navigated the hardest parts of cross-functional delivery. We value leaders who:

  • Move with urgency and create clarity in messy, ambiguous, technically complex situations.

  • Engage with the technical work directly — they understandwhat’sunder the hood and use that to manage dependencies and risk.

  • Use AI as a genuine force multiplier — not a novelty, and not a crutch.

  • Say what they mean, ask thehard questions, anddon’thide behindprocess

  • Care deeply about the mission: the work we shipultimately servespatients and clinicians worldwide.

  • Learn continuously, adapt quickly, and share what they learn with their teams.

Evinova draws on AstraZeneca’s deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we 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.

Evinovarepresentsa unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector. We work a minimum of three days per week from the office tomaintainthe pace, connection, and creative friction that builds great products, while respecting individual flexibility.

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a biopharmaceutical company can be. This means opening new ways to work, pioneeringcutting-edgemethods, and bringing unexpected teams together.Interested? Come and join our journey.

Date Posted

29-jul-2026

Closing Date

12-ago-2026

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.

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Industry
Chemicals & Materials
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, GB
Year Founded
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