AstraZeneca

SaaS Implementation & Client Success Lead

AstraZeneca$172K — $258K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in SaaS implementations on enterprise platforms in regulated industries
  • Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent implementations with varied deployment models
  • Experience handling complex customer relationships with high governance standards
  • Strong track record of structured delivery in ambiguous environments
  • Possesses active technical literacy to engage with engineering teams
  • Bachelor's degree required

Responsibilities

  • Manage customer implementations end-to-end across active portfolio
  • Own and actively manage the delivery plan, risks, and dependencies for each project
  • Coordinate with engineers and testers to ensure projects stay on track
  • Act as the primary contact for customers regarding delivery status and issues
  • Identify and transparently manage risks related to product timelines and scope
  • Adapt delivery strategies across different deployment models
  • Document delivery approaches and contribute to the playbook for continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility reflecting a global customer base
  • Access to a qualified retirement program (401(k) plan)
  • Paid vacation, holidays, and leaves
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Short-term incentive bonus and equity-based long-term incentives available
Full Job Description
WHAT THE ROLE IS:

As an Implementation and Success lead, the role owns an implementation from kick-off to close-out. You are the accountable delivery lead - the primary point of contact for the customer on delivery, the person who holds the plan and the risk, and the one who ensures the team around you is coordinated and on track and that the customer stays confident.

It is a hands-on role; you are close enough to the build and rollout to spot problems before they advance. Accountability does not shift at debut- it continues through hypercare close-out. This role is the engine that turns a signed contract into a live, adopted solution.

You will be joining a team that is scaling. There is no fully established playbook to inherit. Part of this role is contributing to how we deliver - detailing what works, improving what doesn't, and helping us get better as we grow.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
  • Managing customer implementations end to end across your active portfolio
  • Owning the delivery plan, achievements, dependencies, and RAID log for each study - actively, not administratively
  • Coordinating Solution Engineers, testers, and Product Engineering to keep builds on track
  • Acting as the primary customer contact for delivery status, risk, and blocking issue throughout implementation
  • Identifying where product development timelines or release scope build delivery risk - and managing that risk transparently with customers and internally
  • Adapting delivery approach across deployment models - forward deployed, guided, and self-serve
  • Closing out hypercare cleanly: lessons captured, handover detailed, no lingering post-go-live noise
  • Contributing to the delivery playbook - documenting approach, flagging gaps, helping the team learn


SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Delivery and implementation
  • Demonstrable track record of delivering SaaS implementations on enterprise platforms in regulated industries
  • Has delivered while a product was still maturing - experienced with implementation risk that originates in adoption rate, customer and or timeline
  • Structured delivery field: can show a real delivery plan, a maintained RAID log, and genuine risk decisions made under pressure
  • Experienced running multiple concurrent implementations with different deployment models
  • Knows how to hold delivery quality when the environment is ambiguous and there is no established playbook to follow


Customer and Collaborator management
  • Has managed sophisticated customers with high governance standards - pharma, life sciences, or similarly regulated enterprise environments
  • Surfaces risk early and directly; does not manage it away to protect the relationship
  • Communicates delivery status, product constraints, and timeline risk honestly - including when the message is uncomfortable
  • Has held sponsor-side Digital and Data collaborator relationships at programme level
  • Builds trust through delivery, not through reassurance


Technical literacy
  • Technically literate enough to lead engineers, read a data model, and understand integration dependencies - without being an engineer
  • Comfortable engaging with Product Engineering on build sequencing, release scope, and configuration constraints
  • Understands how AI-enabled product features affect implementation sequencing and data readiness
  • Can identify when a product gap requires critical issue and frame it clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences


Ways of working
  • Brings structure to environments that do not yet have it - does not wait to be given a framework
  • AI tooling is part of their current workflow for delivery planning and project management - not an aspiration
  • Comfortable contributing to process development alongside live delivery
  • Resilient under competing pressure from customer, commercial, and product directions simultaneously


Essential Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 7+ years of minimum experience
  • Delivery of SaaS implementations on enterprise platforms - not just managed projects within a vendor-delivered model
  • Shown experience to work on evolving products
  • Active Technical Literacy is active, not passive
  • Demonstrated work in pharma, life sciences, or a regulated enterprise environment


This role is approved for remote working. The remote designation reflects the global nature of the customer portfolio and the expectation that meaningful, high-quality in-person engagement with customers is a core part of how this role operates, not an occasional addition to it.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $172,466.40 - 258,699.60 USD Annual. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Fantastic! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Apply today.

Date Posted
13-Jul-2026

Closing Date
24-Jul-2026

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of prescription drugs. The company was formed in 1999 through the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group plc. AstraZeneca's products are used to treat a wide range of medical conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and diabetes. The company has operations in over 100 countries and employs more than 76,000 people worldwide. AstraZeneca is committed to developing innovative medicines that improve the health and well-being of people around the world.
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Size
83,100 employees
Market Cap
$211.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.1 billion
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+10.2%
Revenue
$26.6 billion
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