Medical Affairs Manager

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Office based medical leader who can be a single contributor as well as be responsible for a team within a given Therapy Area or for a significant product to ensure the company business unit goals are achieved. Accountable for strategic Therapy Area direction and scientific leadership within the Medical Affairs Team.

Embeds a deep healthcare system practices and gaps understanding (environment, priorities, clinical and patient pathways, etc) that can translate into actionable strategies within the local Medical Plans. Accountable for developing and execution of the Therapy Area/Product Medical Affairs Plans composed of confidence and evidence generation activities, as well as fundamental and sustainable clinical practice transformations that strengthen healthcare ecosystems, improve treatment outcomes, drive meaningful changes in patient care and treatment paradigms and enable access to quality care in alignment with the company’s portfolio. Recognizes and incorporates innovation wherever appropriate into Medical Affairs strategic plans and lead in execution to drive strategic and sustainable impact internally and externally to support the adoption of evidence-based practices, guidelines, and treatment approaches. Acts as a catalysts of sustainable healthcare ecosystem change, enhancing access to quality care for patients and enabling the adoption of our innovative medicines.

Ensures that all local medical requirements are met for all product/TA material and will use medical expertise to contribute to the marketing direction of the product/TA. Recognised as a medical expert within the local marketing company and be responsible for providing medical leadership, expertise, and strategic input to ensure that the Medical Affairs plans align with the broader business objectives. Collaborate with relevant cross-functional teams identify, activate and measure scalable healthcare practice shaping initiatives with integrated partnership engagement plans composed of key traditional (e.g. HCPs) and non-traditional (e.g. policy and decision makers, PAGs, government, innovative solution providers) stakeholders. Able to lead a significant cross functional, projects. For example, projects like RWE, pre-launch, post-launch clinical trials or market access projects. Works to ensure operational excellence and collaborates with compliance to ensure adherence to company standards.

Typical Accountabilities

Medical strategy and clinical input

• Ensure the Field Medical Strategic Plan (FMSP) and MSL activities are prioritized and aligned with the Medical Affairs Strategic Plans
• Ensure the Field Medical Plan includes an Integrated Engagement plan with an appropriate ratio of traditional and non-traditional stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Medical Affairs Team and cross functional team to provide input to medical and product strategies.
• Drives prioritization of activities across the team to ensure appropriate focus on portfolio priorities.
• Identify opportunities and initiate discussion potential strategic, scalable & sustainable clinical practice transformations initiatives that can impact on patient access to quality care.
• Ensures the team leverages Digital and innovation / technology as an enabler for patient centric solutions and effectively contributes to enhancing equitable access to people in assigned accounts / clinics / healthcare systems.
• Leverage technology, available data / dashboards to drive data-driven decisions to support internal discussions and external engagements.
• Contribute on field and external stakeholder insights and perspectives in medical and brand internal strategic discussions and communicate internally on actionable items as appropriate.
• Provide regular updates to team and broader organization on delivery versus plan, variance to plan, proposed mitigation with emphasis on internal & external strategic and patient impact.
• Ensures own knowledge of best practices and new relevant developments is kept up to date with understanding of its relevance to the team(s).
• Drive Medically led/co-led, based initiatives, on an identified gap in collaboration with CFTs, that contributes to an overarching plan mapped to drive positive patient outcomes.
• Lead educational initiatives, developing clinical support tools, and providing scientific expertise to support the integration of new medical advancements into clinical practice.
• Agile adoption of innovation through win-win partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem that are scalable and can enable sustainable patient outcomes.

Team & People Management:

• Recruit the right talent based on capabilities and abilities required for the field medical role.
• Ensure the optimal environment for the MSL development, growth, and high performance.
• Foster a culture of I&D, agility, innovative mindset, win-win partnerships and collaboration.
• Lead an effective, strategic, and outcomes-oriented field medical team(s) with a high level of scientific expertise.
• Manage and drive team’s performance with measures and metrics put in place that reflect meaningful patient outcomes with continuous improvement approach.
• Lead a team with comprehensive understanding of the healthcare ecosystem to address population health discussions and deliver outcomes that address impact across the patient pathway.
• Guide the team(s) to have a deep understanding of stakeholder needs to effectively communicate complex scientific information using the right content and channel mix.
• Ensure the team’s quality and promptness of status, information and insights reported back to the cross-functional teams and in company tracking systems.
• Role model as an expert in the assigned therapeutic area with well established relationships with key healthcare professionals.
• Conduct one on one meetings/field visits to coach and review according to the most up-to-date global field medical engagement model on proficiency and related capabilities.
• Role model the AstraZeneca values fostering personal accountability, ownership of individual and team success, operational agility and growth mindsets.
• Contributes to establishing and implementing policies, procedures and objectives for own work and for the field medical team(s).
• Lead and manage change initiatives as needed in the field to enable positive business outcomes.
• Oversee direct report compliance with all AstraZeneca guidelines, standards, policies and local regulations.
• Manage and oversees team financial resources

Medical Governance Oversight

• Personally, provides expert scientific support and approval on product materials involving large or more complex drugs, or documents and reports for more important conferences/symposiums.
• Advises the marketing team as a medical healthcare expert ensuring the medical and scientific accuracy of outgoing marketing materials.
• Ensures that all branding work is carried out in accordance with AstraZeneca standards and external regulation.

Education, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• A medical degree with specialization or appropriate experience in the required product or disease area
• Extensive experience of Medical Affairs function within a pharmaceutical industry
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of pharmaceutical industry and field medical function
• Ability to interact and manage a range of stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment.

Desirable

• MBBS, MD
• Innovative and solution-oriented mindset
• Experience with basic research, drug discovery and development and drug lifecycle management.
• Understanding of multiple aspects within Medical Affairs department
• Team Management experience

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

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So, what’s next?

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