AstraZeneca Posted August 10, 2026

Director of Solution Consulting

Cambridge, United Kingdom Full time
BD&L & Strategic Planning Director

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About this opportunity

Position: Director of Solution Consulting

Location: Field-based in the UK

Competitive Salary & Excellent Company Benefits

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 new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you!

Transform billions of 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.

About the Role

We are seeking a passionate and responsible candidate to join our Solution Consulting Team. In this role, you will be responsible for tailored presentations and discovery sessions with customers to ensure they can realize the full potential of our products. You will lead the delivery of exceptional demos, facilitating discovery sessions, validating solutions, supporting product releases, and representing our company at conferences and industry events

What You'll Do

Demos & Presentations: Lead the preparation and delivery of compelling product demonstrations tailored to clients' specific needs, effectively showcasing the benefits and features of our solutions.

Discovery & Validation: Conduct collaborative discovery sessions with clients to understand their unique challenges and recommend appropriate solutions to address them.

Product Support: Partner with product management and engineering teams to ensure smooth product releases and alignment with client expectations and requirements.

Support Sandbox environments for potential clients and lead office hours for support for clients. Conference Participation: Represent the company at industry events and conferences, engaging with potential clients and collaborators to promote our solutions.

Team Collaboration: Work closely with sales and marketing teams to provide insights and support that drive client engagement and successful solution adoption.

Demo Environment Maintenance: Assist in the creation and upkeep of demo environments to ensure they are up-to-date and aligned with client needs.

Study Onboarding Support: Provide hands-on support during customer-specific study onboarding by demonstrating how our solutions meet their operational requirements.

Client Engagement: Build and nurture long-term relationships with clients, ensuring their satisfaction and successful utilization of our products.

Essential for this role

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in marketing, science, business or any technical field

Strong experiences in commercial, build or delivery of clinical studies technology

Proven experience in a solution consulting or similar role within the SaaS industry.

SaaS solution experience

Strong understanding of software solutions and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.

Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with experience in client-facing roles.

Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with global teams.

Experience of product launches and participation in industry conferences

Experience in Digital Health with a solid understanding of healthcare

Passion for patients and customers, representing the needs of both in decision making

Continuous Improvement mindset with experience to understand how to take a pragmatic approach

Desirable

Clinical Software SolCon experience

Training experience

Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context

Pharmaceutical industry experience

Experience driving customer engagements in support of commercial activities

Familiarity with the latest research and thinking in the Digital Health space

Why Evinova (AstraZeneca)?

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

So, what’s next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Apply by submitting your CV by 24th Aug 2026

Where can I find out more?

Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/

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Learn more about Evinova www.evinova.com

Date Posted

10-Aug-2026

Closing Date

24-Aug-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
BD&L & Strategic Planning
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active BD&L & Strategic Planning role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 21 comparable Director BD&L & Strategic Planning roles across 11 biopharma companies.

21Comparable roles tracked
18Currently active
11Companies hiring similar roles
5Countries represented

Salary context

6 of 21 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Director, Corporate Development · Mylan Inc. $112,000/yr – $236,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Director, Portfolio & Product Strategy, NS · Novartis $185,500/yr – $344,500/yr
Peer group range $174,000 – $265,000 (median $248,075)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 21 comparable roles

United States10
China6
United Kingdom3
Germany1
Spain1

Seniority mix

21 of 21 peers have a known seniority level

Director19
Senior Director2

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 21 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Immunology3
Oncology1

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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.

60%similar
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60%similar
Regeneron UK Limited Uxbridge1, United Kingdom Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
50%similar
AstraZeneca Cambridge, United Kingdom Senior Director
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45%similar
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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.

60%
Director International Commercialization Immunology
Regeneron UK Limited · Uxbridge1, United Kingdom · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
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Oncology Strategy Director
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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.