Medical Manager CVRM

JOB TITLE

Medical Manager CVRM

ROLE SUMMARY

• 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.
• 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.
• Acts as a manager, coach, and leader to the field medical team, Medical Manager provides operational guidance along with skills & 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.

What you ll do

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 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 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 regular monitoring, checks and education to ensure direct reports compliance with all AstraZeneca guidelines, standards, policies and local regulations.
• Manages and oversees team financial resources.

Strategic Planning and Delivery:

• 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.
• Ensure the Field Medical Plan includes an Integrated Engagement plan with an appropriate ratio of traditional and non-traditional stakeholders.
• 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.
• Work closely with the Medical Affairs Team and cross functional team to provide input to medical and brand strategies.
• 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.
• 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 & sustainable clinical practice transformations initiatives that can impact on patient access to quality care.
• Drives prioritization of activities across the team to ensure appropriate focus on portfolio priorities, including pre-launch and launch excellence.
• 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.