WHAT THE ROLE INVOLVES
Key Responsibilities
Drive solution consulting and pre-sales activities across Evinova’s entire suite of AI-first solutions for strategic opportunities across the China market.
Partner with commercial teams to shape opportunities, qualify customer needs, and develop compelling AI solution strategies and proposals.
Act as a trusted advisor to customers, translating business challenges in clinical development into practical AI-enabled solutions.
Lead customer discovery sessions, solution workshops, pilot programs, executive presentations, and technical discussions.
Support development of proposals, statements of work, business cases, and executive-level presentation materials.
Lead the preparation and delivery of compelling product demonstrations tailored to clients' specific needs, effectively showcasing the benefits and features of Evinova AI solutions.
Manage the creation and upkeep of demo environments to ensure they are up-to-date and aligned with client needs.
Design end-to-end AI solution concepts, covering use cases, data and workflow requirements, model approach, integration, deployment, and governance considerations.
Partner with product management and engineering teams to ensure smooth product releases and alignment with client expectations and requirements.
Work closely with product, engineering, AI/data science, delivery, and compliance teams to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, and aligned with platform strategy.
Advise customers on enterprise AI adoption and transformation, including readiness, prioritisation, deployment options, responsible AI, and risk management.
Stay current on market trends, competitive developments, and emerging AI innovation to strengthen Evinova’s positioning in China.
Represent the company at industry events and conferences, engaging with potential clients and collaborators to promote Evinova AI solutions.
SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES NEEDED
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, science, business or any technical field; advanced degree (PhD, MBA) is highly preferred.
8+ years of relevant experience and proven track record in B2B solution consulting, pre-sales, and digital transformation, in the China market.
Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical R&D, clinical research, healthcare technology, or other regulated industries is strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of clinical development workflows, trial operations, and digital clinical systems.
Strong executive presence and ability to work effectively across a local and global matrix organization.
Strong consulting, problem-solving, and structured communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for senior business and technical stakeholders.
Well-developed senior stakeholder management skills with proven problem-solving, collaboration and interpersonal leadership skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and create clarity.
Fluent English and Mandarin, both of which must be usable as working languages.
Willingness and ability to travel up to 30%, including both domestic and international.
AI-first Mentality, result-driven and ’Can-do’ attitude.
Understanding of the following would be strongly desirable
ICH E6 R3 Good Clinical Practice, FDA 21 CFR part 11, EU GDPR, EU AI Act and China Generative AI Measures.
LLMs, ML, transformer architecture, model training/fine-tuning, agentic AI engineering, solution architecture, and enterprise AI deployment.
Understanding of CDISC standards (CDASH, SDTM, ADaM) and USDM (Unified Study Definitions Model) in clinical data management or regulatory submission workflows.
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.
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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.
