Compliance Excellence Director

Posted date Jun. 05, 2026
Contract type Full time
Job ID R\-253823

Why choose AstraZeneca Spain?
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AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.

We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R\&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R\&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology \& CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world\-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life\-changing medicines to patients.

Who do we look for?
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Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.

Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting\-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.

Success Profile
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Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth\-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.

Diverse collaborators

This is a speak\-up culture that values collaboration. You’ll proactively bring your unique perspectives, experiences and skills to the table and seek the same from others. With our international team composition and the need for fast\-paced collaboration, you’ll always be building new connections with colleagues.

Cutting\-edge innovators

When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that embraces digital technology and data to transform the way we work and the work we do. Every day, you’ll help make history, empowered to ignite your creativity and build something enduring.

Resilient trailblazers

Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self\-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact.

Agile movers

Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground\-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience.

Responsibilities
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Job ID R\-253823 Date posted 06/05/2026
Introduction to role:

Are you ready to elevate global pharmacovigilance quality to protect patients and accelerate transformative cancer medicines? This role puts you at the center of patient safety, where rigorous compliance enables bold science to move with confidence and speed.

As Director, Compliance Excellence, you will shape a consistent, insight\-led operating model for pharmacovigilance quality and compliance across multiple countries. Your work will reduce risk in our safety system, strengthen inspection readiness, and provide the clarity and evidence leaders need to make decisions that benefit patients. Do you translate complex regulations into clear, scalable ways of working that teams can adopt and sustain?

You will collaborate across functions and geographies, guiding teams through evolving regulatory expectations while embedding practical governance, robust metrics, and continuous improvement. The impact is tangible: faster, safer delivery of therapies to people who need them most.

Accountabilities:

• Quality and Compliance Operating Model: Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of an integrated operating model that fulfils applicable regulatory requirements across the pharmacovigilance system, ensuring consistency and scalability.


• PV Process Oversight: Monitor the completeness, effectiveness, and compliance of assigned pharmacovigilance processes, proactively identifying trends and escalating significant risks to safeguard the PV system.


• Compliance Governance: Prepare and steer effective governance forums, including monthly and quarterly compliance meetings and councils; deliver high\-quality materials and drive timely follow\-up to decisions and actions.


• Performance Insights: Oversee the monitoring, tracking, and analysis of performance using established KPIs and compliance frameworks; convert data into insights and targeted improvement actions that raise quality and efficiency.


• Risk Control and Remediation: Ensure appropriate corrective, preventive, and oversight measures are in place to mitigate critical\-to\-quality risks, with clear ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes.


• Innovation and Enablement: Drive the adoption of innovative approaches and enabling technologies that simplify processes, strengthen controls, and improve user experience without compromising compliance.


• Inspection and Audit Integration: Partner with inspection experts to translate learnings into preventive measures and effective remediation for significant findings; build lasting inspection\-readiness into ways of working.


• Regulatory Change Integration: Collaborate with cross\-functional stakeholders to interpret and embed evolving pharmacovigilance legislation into processes, standards, and training at pace.


• Culture and Leadership: Promote a strong quality and compliance culture by providing leadership, guidance, and clear expectations across teams; influence without authority to align diverse perspectives around practical solutions.


• External and Internal Partnerships: Engage with internal leaders and, where relevant, external partners and organizations to ensure alignment, share best practices, and maintain an outward\-looking stance on regulatory and industry trends.

• University degree or equivalent qualification in relevant scientific discipline


• Extensive experience in pharmacovigilance and regulatory compliance within a pharmaceutical, clinical, regulatory or pharmacovigilance environment


• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of global regulatory and pharmacovigilance requirements


• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders


• Experience in working with and influencing senior\-level stakeholders


• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills, negotiation, collaboration, conflict management and interpersonal skills


• Audits and Inspections and Quality Assurance experience


• Key capabilities:


• Understanding of governance processes


• Collaboration/co\-ordination


• Ability to influence without authority


• Open to multiple perspectives

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• A broad understanding of the technical requirements within PV and regulatory and an ability to balance this with industry standards to achieve business goals


• Extensive knowledge in project management skills, specifically leading teams


• Experience in line management on a regional/global basis


• Knowledge of new and developing regulatory and pharmacovigilance expectations

• Financial awareness

Here you will join teams united by a bold ambition to change the course of cancer and the lives it touches. We pair cutting\-edge science with the latest technology and robust investment, moving at pace from discovery through development with patient outcomes as our north star. You will find pragmatic collaborators—regulatory experts, clinicians, data scientists, and safety specialists—solving tough problems together, often in the same room, to unlock smarter, safer decisions. We value kindness alongside ambition, empower leaders at every level, and give you the scope to turn insight into action that directly advances our pipeline and protects patients worldwide. Call to Action: If you are ready to lead compliance that safeguards patients and accelerates breakthrough medicines, step forward and shape what excellence looks like today!

Date Posted

04\-jun\-2026
Closing Date

19\-jun\-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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Reasons to Join
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Thomas Mathisen

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues

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