AdressWe are looking for a Brand Manager within respiratory with particular focus on a newly launched biologic treatment to join our team. This role sits in our Nordic Marketing Company and is located at our AstraZeneca office in Stockholm. You will be office based but require regular engagements with HCPs and decision makers.
As part of AstraZeneca, the Nordic Marketing Companyemploys around 550 people and has offices located in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Espoo. By 2025 AstraZeneca Nordic aims to become a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and improve the lives of millions of people. This will be achieved by driving innovative science, preparing launches, building close teamwork and partnerships within health care systems, and developing hard-working teams.
What you will do:
Our Brand Manager is an important member of the local marketing team, and you will be working closely with the cross-functional therapy area team, as well as colleagues across brands and TA’s. You translate scientific knowledge into strategies and tactics that support business success and demonstrate valuable insights from external environment to enhance decision making.
The primary responsibility in this role is to support our launch brand in meeting its business objectives by develop, execute and implement strategic plans and activities with a patient centric approach. You will also:
- Work with the strategic brand planning and ensure that our strategy is built on robust and impactful insights.
- Empower and inspire the cross-functional team by bringing strategy to life in different phases of the product lifecycle.
- Develop & implement local communication campaigns and materials based on Global deliverables & Nordic prioritizations in partnership with alliance stakeholders.
- Develop ideas, materials and activities that contributes to patients' care and improves treatment pathways.
- Work in close co-operation with the sales team to support critical metrics and objectives within the therapy area.
Essential for the role:
- Experience from the pharmaceutical industry with a passion for marketing.
- Experience of implementing solid strategic- and tactical plans in the launch of new products/indications.
- Proven experience with different marketing and digital channels and ability to identify and apply new ways of interacting, in line with our ambition to be a leading and innovative partner.
- A strong patient centric approach with a sense of commercial innovation and preferred expertise from specialty care.
- Driver’s license is required and you need to have ability to travel.
- Excellent understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, health care system and payer structures in Sweden.
- Fluent in both Swedish and English.
In order to succeed we are looking for you who has a true passion for marketing and a few years of experience in strategic work and planning in the pharmaceutical industry. You should also have strong collaboration and leadership capabilities with a proactive and solution-oriented approach. Excellent communication and negotiation skills as well as strategic, analytical and project management skills and a strong sense for planning, prioritization and execution.
Why AstraZeneca?
When we at AstraZeneca see the chance to change, we take this opportunity - for every opportunity, no matter how small, can be the beginning of something big. Delivering medicine that changes people's lives is about having an entrepreneurial spirit - finding moments and understanding its potential. We are proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.
For more information about the position please contact: Sara Åkerhielm, Franchise Head – Nordic Marketing Company: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-%C3%A5kerhielm-16023474/
So, what is next? If this sounds like the role for you, welcome to apply today! Please send in your application, in English, latest by the 14th March, 2024.
Where can I find out more?
Nordic Marketing Company, Stockholm: https://www.astrazeneca.se/om-oss/verksamheten-i-sverige/stockholm.html
Inclusion & Diversity: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/inclusion-diversity
Career site: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/
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