# Director, External Scouting

Introduction to Role AstraZeneca is building a more connected, end-to-end approach to academic collaboration across BioPharma R&D. As Director, External Scouting, you will shape how we identify, assess and advance external science and collaboration opportunities that can influence our portfolio, strengthen future capabilities and accelerate scientific innovation. You will combine enterprise-level strategic leadership with hands-on accountability for delivery. Working as a trusted partner to Academic Alliances leadership and senior therapeutic area leaders, you will set and prioritize the scouting agenda, interpret emerging science and ecosystem shifts, and determine how external innovation approaches such as Target Innovation, preclinical molecule collaborations, CoSolve and public-private partnerships, including IHI, can create the greatest strategic value. You will also help evolve how external scouting is delivered, using AI, automation, structured data and scalable workflows to improve the speed, consistency and quality of decision-making while ensuring scientific and strategic judgement remains at the center. Why This Role This is an opportunity to define where AstraZeneca eng

- **Id**: 4223501
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-director-external-scouting>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T06:41:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 12335
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology, Oncology Therapeutics, Rare Disease Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 13195
- **Name**: AstraZeneca
- **Domain**: astrazeneca.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astra-zeneca>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 188
- **Ghost share**: 0.011
- **Stale share**: 0.356
- **Repost share**: 0.112
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 172624
- **Max**: 258936
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 258936

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T06:41:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T08:44:25Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 258936
- **Is top pay**: yes

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