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Role Overview: The Regional Medical Lead for Markets Expansion MEA &amp; EURASIA will play a critical role in driving medical excellence, ensuring alignment with global strategies, and encouraging strong scientific leadership across the region. Reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs for Markets Expansion and China, this role will collaborate closely with AstraZeneca Rare Diseases (AZRD) regional and country medical teams, the Alexion Markets Expansion Medical Operations Lead, Global TA medical teams, and cross-functional partners to improve medical capabilities, advance patient outcomes, and craft the market landscape. Key Responsibilities Medical Leadership &amp; Strategy <ul> <li>Act as the primary liaison Alexion Global Medical Affairs and AZRD medical teams in MEA &amp; EURASIA, ensuring continuous knowledge transfer and access to Alexion s rare disease expertise.</li> <li>Drive the medical strategy in the region, ensuring alignment with global and regional priorities while tailoring approaches to local needs.</li> <li>Shape the medical and market landscape by engaging key partners, influencing treatment paradigms, and driving adoption of innovative and evidence-based approaches.</li> <li>Guide the performance and impact of medical activities across the region.</li> <li>Provide strategic input on the capabilities and development of AZRD medical teams to improve expertise and leadership in the region.</li> <li>Support Alexion Global Medical and R&amp;D initiatives, ensuring MEA &amp; EURASIA countries are involved in relevant projects and clinical development programs.</li> </ul> Cross-functional Teamwork &amp; Stakeholder Engagement <ul> <li>Strengthen teamwork between AZRD medical teams and Alexion s global functions, ensuring regional needs and best practices are effectively communicated.</li> <li>Lead and/or coordinate above-country medical initiatives, including regional congresses, medical factual events, advisory boards, publications, and Centers of Perfection (CoE) scientific exchange programs, and more.</li> <li>Act as a strategic advisor for medical launch strategies, ensuring flawless execution of advisory boards, HCP interactions, and Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement in Alexion s therapeutic areas.</li> <li>Ensure full compliance with local, regional, and global pharmaceutical regulations governing medical activities.</li> </ul> Medical Execution &amp; Performance Monitoring <ul> <li>Oversee and support the execution of AZRD medical teams country-level strategies, ensuring they align with Alexion s global therapeutic area (TA) strategies.</li> <li>Provide regular strategic oversight, reviewing medical activities, key performance indicators (KPIs), and impact reports.</li> <li>Maintain consistent engagement with AZRD medical teams, facilitating monthly operational meetings, quarterly regional coordination, and annual strategy reviews.</li> <li>Collaborate with Alexion cross-functional teams to drive knowledge-sharing, ensuring best practices are disseminated and implemented across the region.</li> </ul> Core Accountabilities <ul> <li>Knowledge Transfer &amp; Training: Ensure AZRD medical teams receive ongoing disease-area training and updates from Alexion Global Medical Affairs.</li> <li>Medical Expertise &amp; Thought Leadership: Establish Alexion &amp; AZRD as leaders in rare diseases, leveraging innovative medical activities and expert engagement.</li> <li>Performance &amp; Impact Measurement: Routinely assess and communicate the efficiency of medical initiatives, ensuring strategic priorities are met.</li> <li>Cross-functional Support: Partner with AZRD medical teams to support clinical operations, patient support programs, grants, ISRs, and RWE initiatives.</li> <li>Scientific Exchange &amp; External Engagement: Represent Alexion and AZRD at national and international congresses, leveraging opportunities to strengthen medical networks and advance scientific leadership.</li> </ul> Qualifications &amp; Experience Crucial Requirements <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in Medical Affairs within the MEA region, including leadership roles.</li> <li>Proven expertise in orphan diseases or rare diseases preferred.</li> <li>Strong track record of cross-functional collaboration in complex matrix organizations.</li> <li>Deep understanding of medical compliance and pharmaceutical regulations.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to influence treatment paradigms and engage KOLs effectively.</li> <li>Experience in late-stage clinical development, real-world evidence (RWE), and observational studies.</li> <li>Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication in English and local languages (preferred).</li> </ul> Education <ul> <li>M.D., Ph.D., or Pharm.D. degree required.</li> <li>Additional certifications or experience in clinical practice is an asset.</li> </ul> Core Competencies <ul> <li>Strategic Thinking &amp; Leadership</li> <li>Collaboration &amp; Cross-functional Engagement</li> <li>Problem-Solving &amp; Decision-Making</li> <li>Stakeholder Influence &amp; Negotiation</li> <li>Adaptability in Multicultural Environments</li> <li>Effective Communication &amp; Scientific Storytelling.</li> </ul>

Markets Expansion Regional Medical Lead

Responsible for strategic R&amp;I direction, establishing standards of medical capability, business/resource planning, and scientific leadership within the Medical Affairs Team.
As a medical expert, provide medical leadership, expertise, and strategic input to ensure Medical Affairs therapy area plans are aligned with the broader business objectives.
Drive examples of 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.
Leverage medical expertise to design, implement, and oversee real-world evidence (RWE) projects. Identifies reliable, suitable data sources and ensures 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.
Collaborate with leaders from relevant cross-functional teams to 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.
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.
Put in place measures to showcase the impact of initiatives.
Agile innovation adoption through win-win partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem that are scalable and can enable sustainable patient outcomes.
Lead a team that ensures all product materials for a specific therapy area are kept up to date and accurate.
Personally provide expert scientific support and 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.
Advise the marketing team as a medical healthcare expert, ensuring the medical and scientific accuracy of outgoing marketing materials.
Ensure that all branding work is carried out in accordance with AstraZeneca standards and external regulations.
Governance and overall adherence to processes and regulations, including but not limited to clinical trials, promotional activity (e.g., Local Country Code of Conduct), patient safety (ensure that pharmacovigilance activities meet internal SOP and local regulations, e.g., PI updates, oversight of safety profile of products registered in the local country)
Enhance medical effectiveness by building a performance-driven team with robust systems and processes with the right capabilities in place to meet the current and future needs of the AZ Medical Affairs team.
Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment where individuals are supported in their professional development and empowered to contribute their expertise to the broader goals of the organization.
Responsible for setting clear expectations, goals, and priorities for the team and ensuring alignment with the overall medical and business strategies.
Promote a culture of scientific excellence, integrity, and continuous learning within the team.
Organize and deliver education and training to cross-functional employees to ensure scientific knowledge is kept up to date within the local organization.
Guide and mentor junior Medical Affairs colleagues by providing ongoing coaching and feedback to team members to support their career growth and skills development.

Medical Affairs Therapy Area Lead

JOB TITLE Medical Manager CVRM ROLE SUMMARY <ul> <li>An office-based role couple with strong external scientific leadership and partnership. Medical Manager is responsible in leading a high-performing Field Medical team that drives enhanced patient outcomes and the safe and effective use of AstraZeneca medicines with prioritization according to company strategy and organizational impact. The role ensures excellence in execution, and leverages innovations wherever appropriate, of the local Medical Affairs strategic plans through the Field Medical team composed of confidence and evidence generation activities.</li> <li>Medical Manager has a deep understanding of the local healthcare system, its priorities, and challenges and lead the team with an Integrated Engagement plan to gather insights, foster scientific and strategic partnerships with major hospitals, institutions/ authorities and non-traditional stakeholders (E.g. policy and decision makers, payer groups, government, researchers and other) and drive fundamental and sustainable clinical practice transformations in alignment with the Medical Affairs strategy and the company s portfolio that strengthen healthcare ecosystems, improve treatment outcomes, that enable patient access to quality care. </li> <li>Acts as a manager, coach, and leader to the field medical team, Medical Manager provides operational guidance along with skills &amp; capabilities training in accordance with the Global/local standards and relevant job descriptions. The role is responsible for performance management, operational excellence, driving impact and efficiencies through measurable outcomes and a continuous improvement approach and communicating the quality delivery and value of the Medical Affairs team with good understanding of the internal business ecosystem (strategy, model, finances). Medical Manager acts as a key member of the local Medical Affairs team and Cross-functional Brand team that contributes to the planning and execution of Medical Affairs strategies, working closely with the local medical and cross-functional teams.</li> </ul> What you ll do Team &amp; People Management: <ul> <li>Recruit the right talent based on capabilities and abilities required for the field medical role.</li> <li>Ensure the optimal environment for the MSL development, growth, and high performance.</li> <li>Foster a culture of I&amp;D, agility, innovative mindset, win-win partnerships and collaboration.</li> <li>Lead an effective, strategic, and outcomes-oriented field medical team with a high level of scientific expertise.</li> <li>Manage and drive team s performance with measures and metrics put in place that reflect meaningful patient outcomes with continuous improvement approach.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Guide the team to have a deep understanding of stakeholder needs to effectively communicate complex scientific information using the right content and channel mix.</li> <li>Ensure the team s quality and promptness of status, information and insights reported back to the cross-functional teams and in company tracking systems.</li> <li>Role model as an expert in the assigned therapeutic area with well established relationships with key healthcare professionals.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Role model the AstraZeneca values fostering personal accountability, ownership of individual and team success, operational agility and growth mindsets.</li> <li>Contributes to establishing and implementing policies, procedures and objectives for own work and for the field medical team(s).</li> <li>Lead and manage change initiatives as needed in the field to enable positive business outcomes.</li> <li>Oversee regular monitoring, checks and education to ensure direct reports compliance with all AstraZeneca guidelines, standards, policies and local regulations.</li> <li>Manages and oversees team financial resources.</li> </ul> Strategic Planning and Delivery: <ul> <li>Ensure the Field Medical Strategic Plan (FMSP) and MSL activities are prioritized, aligned with the Medical Affairs Strategic Plans, and executed with excellence and according to budget and timelines.</li> <li>Ensure the Field Medical Plan includes an Integrated Engagement plan with an appropriate ratio of traditional and non-traditional stakeholders.</li> <li>Drive the identification of prioritized cross functional accounts in focus for VTC for the AZ therapeutic area/ medications. Foster scientific and strategic partnerships with KEEs to transform medication/ healthcare ecosystems, improve treatment outcomes, that enable patient access to quality care.</li> <li>Work closely with the Medical Affairs Team and cross functional team to provide input to medical and brand strategies.</li> <li>Works as a strategic partner of the value team (E.g. Marketing and Market Access) to identify clinical and payer data gaps and evidence generation needs. </li> <li>Contributes to BSP process by providing scientific and medical inputs to the development and evaluation of local operational brand strategy, including KEEs, customer insights and competitive intelligence. Identify opportunities and initiate discussion potential strategic, scalable &amp; sustainable clinical practice transformations initiatives that can impact on patient access to quality care.</li> <li>Drives prioritization of activities across the team to ensure appropriate focus on portfolio priorities, including pre-launch and launch excellence.</li> <li>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.</li></ul><ul> </ul>

Medical Manager CVRM

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Markets Expansion Regional Medical Lead

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Medical Manager CVRM