Medical TA Lead - BBU

Strategic Planning and Delivery:

• Ensure the Field Medical Strategic Plan (FMSP) and field medical 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).

Medical strategy and clinical input

• Drive Medically led/co-led initiatives, on an identified gap in collaboration with CFTs, that contributes to an overarching plan mapped to drive positive patient outcomes.
• Leverage medical expertise to design, implement, and oversee real-world evidence (RWE) projects. Identifies reliable suitable data sources and ensure the scientific rigor and integrity of real-world studies.
• Responsible for interpreting and communicating the findings from RWE projects with a strong focus on translating RWE into actionable insights that can internally inform medical and commercial strategies and externally ultimately improve patient outcomes and inform healthcare decision-making.
• Establish AstraZeneca as a scientific leader through proactive medical inputs.
• Lead educational initiatives, developing clinical support tools, and providing scientific expertise to support the integration of new medical advancements into clinical practice.
• Puts in place measures to showcase the impact of initiatives.
• Agile adoption of innovation through win-win partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem that are scalable and can enable sustainable patient outcomes.

Medical Governance Oversight

• Leads a team that ensures all product materials for a specific therapy area are kept up to date and accurate.

• Personally, provides expert scientific support/approval on product materials involving large or more complex drugs, or documents and reports for more important conferences/symposiums.
• Has signatory authority on outgoing therapy area materials if needed.
• 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.

Team & People Management:

• Recruit the right talent based on capabilities and abilities required for the field medical role.
• Ensure the optimal environment for the field medical team 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.

Education, Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• Science degree and or master’s degree in a scientific discipline
• Extensive experience of Medical Affairs function within a pharmaceutical industry
• Strong understanding of medical, clinical development, and regulatory requirements
• Extensive experience in stakeholder management
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Extensive team management experience
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix cross-functional environment.