AstraZeneca is looking to impact the strategic direction of a product in Oncology by hiring an inspirational, influential leader with a strong Oncology background to lead the Global Product Team and deliver the integrated global product strategy.
Requirements
- Scientific or medical degree, potentially coupled with marketing or commercial experience and/or degrees.
- Oncology experience
- Global cross functional leadership, ideally in both global R&D and commercial or medical setting
- Strong decision-making capabilities and understanding how to work with a cross-functional teams to gather appropriate inputs, challenge ideas, and come to clear decisions
- Excellent scientific and clinical acuity – understands the full value change of medicine and translational science
- Has influenced significant functional investment decisions.
- Has led sophisticated projects with ambitious achievements in fast paced circumstances
Responsibilities
- Lead the Global Product Team (GPT), which together defines and drives the strategic direction of the medicine, ensuring scientific value creation across the lifecycle including clinical development, regulatory approvals, product launch/commercialization* and lifecycle management.
- Find opportunities for the product strategy and drive decisions by coalescing diverse internal and external stakeholders’ interests, potentially including any alliances.
- Ensure effective and efficient working across any alliances, playing a leading role on several key interface teams, including co-lead of the Joint Development Committee.
- Be entrepreneurial in problem solving and increasing opportunities for the brand through shaping and driving product strategy.
- Demonstrate an enterprise approach– embracing curiosity, collaboration & thoughtful risks that incorporate perspectives across R&D, Commercial and Medical into strategies and programs.
- Relate and connect deeply with various KEES, healthcare systems and large markets in order to deliver direction and support.
Other
- Inspirational, empowering leader in a strategic multifunctional environment
- Be a role model and an ambassador for the medicine/brand and for AZ
- Speak up and challenge, always towards better outcomes and towards integrity, enabling growth of the organization, team and individuals.
- Enthusiastically embrace the diversity of healthcare ecosystems as significant opportunity
- Proven track record of achieving results through others, as well as coaching and developing impactful team members.
