Senior Director -Project Toxicologist

Are you passionate about working for a global health care company who truly puts patients first, and would like to apply your toxicology expertise in a company that is accelerating innovative science and turns ideas into life changing medicines?

AstraZeneca discovers and develops medicines in our core areas of Oncology, Respiratory and Immunology, Microbial Sciences and Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Disease.

We are looking to recruit a talented Senior Project Toxicologist who has prior experience of late stage clinical development and global marketing into our Regulatory Toxicology and Safety Pharmacology team. In this role you will work as a Project Toxicologist on compounds in late clinical development and marketed products in multiple therapy areas. In collaboration with colleagues across our R&D organization you will develop and execute global regulatory toxicology strategies, playing a key role in delivering new medicines to market. As a Senior Project Toxicologist you will use your prior experience of successful marketing to coach others through the marketing and regulatory defence process. The role will be based at our vibrant R&D site in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Job responsibilities include:

As a core member of the project team, you will design regulatory toxicology strategies to assess and mitigate safety risks, delivering projects to successful global marketing. Provision of non-clinical safety expertise to support established brands.

Communicate clear positions on integrated risk assessments including informing decision-making governance bodies and author/defend clinical trial and marketing applications

Coach others through the process of global marketing applications and regulatory defence

Maintain expertise in regulatory requirements and preclinical safety approaches.

Conduct specialist non-clinical safety evaluation of in-licensing opportunities.

Education/Experience Requirements

Excellent scientist with a PhD and/or DABT in