Associate Director – Territory Operations Management

Location: Field-based, Poland

Travel: Up to 50% within Poland, with occasional regional travel as needed.

Are you ready to build site operations that bring cutting-edge cell therapies safely and reliably to patients? Do you thrive at the intersection of clinical care, quality, and supply chain, where decisions directly impact outcomes?

The Associate Director – Territory Operations Management (AD-TOM) is a regional expert supporting Patient Operations and project teams in cell therapy. In this role, you will shape how our cell therapy portfolio reaches patients across a regional network of healthcare centers. You will lead site operations readiness, design patient and product workflows, and ensure end-to-end quality from raw material collection to infusion. Your work will directly contribute to launch excellence and transform the patient experience in oncology and other therapeutic areas.

You will join a multidisciplinary team that moves fast, collaborates deeply, and values personal accountability. By aligning logistics, processes, and training with each site’s needs, you will turn breakthrough science into dependable care pathways that scale.

Accountabilities:

• Stakeholder Partnerships: Build trusted relationships with physician leaders and operational champions (MD, PA, RN, MLT, CQA) to establish service lines that support clinical trials and future commercial products.

• Site Readiness Leadership: Serve as the primary operations readiness contact for cell therapy; collaborate with Supply Chain to align logistics, processes, and operations to site requirements.

• Product and Process Expertise: Provide in-depth expertise on AstraZeneca products and processes to all customer stakeholders, enabling safe, efficient delivery.

• Operational and Quality Oversight: Lead oversight of raw material collection, final product receipt, storage and distribution, infusion, and robust management of Chain of Identity and Chain of Custody.

• Clinical Modeling and Meetings: Drive operational meetings with multidisciplinary physician leadership to establish patient and cell product models that support trials and commercial launches.

• Cross-Functional Workflow Design: Convene nursing, laboratory, pharmacy, quality, and operations leaders to develop end-to-end product and patient workflows built for reliability and scale.

• Internal Collaboration: Maintain tight communication with partners across Cell Therapy Hub, Clinical Operations, SMM, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Medical, and Commercial to coordinate site management and clinical care for the portfolio.

• Site Activation and Training: Lead risk-based certification, training, and monitoring for site activation; develop and execute HCP training and ensure appropriate COI/COC access for trained individuals.

• Logistics and Change Management: Oversee site logistics; manage regional account changes in partnership with the Cell Therapy Hub to sustain consistent delivery.

• SOP Detour Resolution: Respond swiftly and collegially to deviations from SOPs; support and/or own quality records (Deviations, CAPA, Change Control) in collaboration with QA.

• Travel: Travel up to 50% to engage sites, strengthen partnerships, and support operational excellence.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with thorough knowledge/hands-on experience in Cell Therapy (preferred: nursing, Life Sciences, healthcare administration, Business)

• 8+ years in cell therapy with progressive leadership roles.

• Deep knowledge of cell therapy standards, regulations, and workflows.

• Proven ability to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to quality standards.

• Experience managing external providers and contracts.

• Broad understanding of patient operations, manufacturing interfaces, quality, regulatory, and market access.

• Fluent in Polish and English (written and spoken)

Nice to Have:

• Advanced scientific degree; broad understanding across patient operations, manufacturing interfaces, quality, regulatory, market access; project management experience.

• Program/Quality qualifications (e.g., PMP, CPHQ).

• Experience across academic/Sponsor settings and countries.

• Early-phase delivery across product lifecycle and multiple therapeutic areas.
  Salesforce or similar CRM experience.

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a dedicated team where bold science meets practical execution. You will work with a pipeline that is setting new standards in oncology, alongside colleagues from unexpected disciplines in the same room unleashing bold thinking. We blend ambition with support, valuing kindness alongside high performance, and we learn fast — partnering across functions and with the healthcare community to turn breakthroughs into real-world impact. Your leadership will help accelerate launches, transform the patient experience, and move us closer to a future where cancer is no longer a cause of death.

Date Posted

05-maj-2026

Closing Date

15-maj-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.

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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.