AdressReporting directly to the Medical Head of Immunology, the Senior GMAL is an experienced Medical Affairs leader who fulfils a critical strategic business role. This person develops ambitious medical strategies for our products within Immunology therapy area and via seasoned cross-functional leadership delivers results. The Senior GMAL’s remit and impact extend globally and across the AstraZeneca enterprise, through membership on the Global Medical Team, the Global Product Team, Disease Area Teams, and in partnership with Medical personnel in key markets and regions. This role needs vision. It is someone who can seize an opportunity, design and leverage high impact evidence activities, understands market dynamics and can work with regions and countries to drive the market shaping activities required to ensure outstanding product launches, partner externally to transform health systems for the benefit of population health, bring innovative solutions across the spectrum of medical deliverables, and demonstrate world class scientific engagement with external experts and key stakeholders.
Expectations of a Senior GMAL include:
- Strategy – Design and lead the implementation of product and disease area strategies and practice change initiatives at a global level, partnering to ensure execution at a regional/country level. Develop novel solutions to shape/define a market in preparation for launch.
- Differentiating Evidence Generation – Design and leverage high impact evidence activities in support of product and disease area strategies and practice change initiatives; optimise the communications roll-out of our data sets and be an ambassador for our practice-changing evidence
- Be the Voice of Medical – Craft and convey a compelling narrative across product and disease area strategies, in line with our Medical ambition
- External Presence – Engage and cultivate relationships with leading global thought leaders, societies, patient organisations and health systems, to be able to partner effectively to optimize patient care. Initiates and leads from AZ perspective new partnerships across the health care ecosystem.
Essential for the role:
- BSc or Masters with 5+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (Medical, Marketing, R&D, Market access roles), or experience working within a relevant health system setting (clinical, pharmacy, pathway design etc.)
- Experienced Business leader (e.g. led a TA/franchise in a market, driven brand performance, led large teams) able to deliver results in a complex environment
- Deep healthcare system pathways/market-shaping experience and understanding (e.g. led transformation programs in a healthcare systems, driven partnerships from pharma perspective)
- Proven ability to build internal and external networks and to collaborate across geographies and cultures
- Substantial evidence generation/data expertise, e.g. clinical trial experience (conducted Ph2, Ph3 or Ph4 studies), and/or substantial RWE experience (world-class registry, experience with RWE for label enhancement, practice changing RWD usage)
Desirable for the role:
- Doctoral level degree: MD, PhD, or PharmD
- Expertise in the relevant or related TA
- Relevant experience beyond Medical affairs (e.g. in a marketing/R&D/Market Access role)
- Strong working relationships with global thought leaders, including key experts and opinion leaders, professional societies and other healthcare industries/organizations
- Experience launching new products or indications, and in developing and launching medicines in key geographies (e.g US, China)
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