Medical Manager

**JOB TITLE**

**GCC Medical Manager - HER2 Breast Cancer**

**ABOUT ASTRAZENECA**

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

**ROLE SUMMARY**

GCC Medical Manager is a core member of the brand team and takes the medical lead in Breast Cancer franchise through,

1) providing key medical input to marketing-sales-market access interface

2) deliver strategic and educational medical affairs projects

3) engaging key external experts (KEE)

4) coaching Medical Science Liaison(s) (MSL) in Breast Cancer Therapy area..

These outputs are guaranteed through continuously building robust scientific and medical expertise on the therapeutic area, AstraZeneca products and its competitors in combination with a business acumen attitude and strong communication skills.

**What you’ll do**

In addition to the general description of the parent profile role for this job function, the following summarize key result areas, specific accountabilities and / or tasks, etc. associated with this job title:
**Maintain top-notch robust scientific and medical expertise**:

- Keep track of relevant scientific peer-reviewed literature.
- Attend international and national scientific and medical congresses.
- Engage with all relevant MDT KEEs across GCC cluster.
- Assimilate customer insights obtained through different means.
- Ensure excellent up-to-date scientific knowledge in product and therapeutic area of internal colleagues through knowledge updates, medical product training sessions.
- Respond to unsolicited Medical Information (MI) requests about approved or unapproved AstraZeneca products, or about unapproved uses of approved AstraZeneca products.
- Work together with External Service Provider for MI to meet the requirements set in the local MI procedure.

**Deliver key medical input into the brand strategy**:

- Works in a strategic partnership with the value team (e.g., Marketing and Market Access team)
- Core member of the cross-functional brand team.
- High quality scientific and medical input in the Brand Teams, Brand Building Framework, strategic brand projects and Campaigns
- Participate in the development and evaluation of the local operational brand strategy by ensuring input of KEEs, customer insights and competitive intelligence.
- Responsible for reviewing and approving of promotional material - solution-driven with thorough understanding of the promotional standards code (company and local)
- Responsible for medical training of sales force.

**Deliver strategic and educational medical projects**:

- Develop and execute medical affairs projects (e.g., build evidence) of the brand plan according to budget and timelines.
- Accurate retro-planning of projects with close follow-up in line with defined goals and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
- Close follow-up of the projects’ budget.
- Excellent communication on the progress of projects to all internal stakeholders

**Build partnerships with Key External Experts**:

- Build and maintain visibility and excellent long-term professional relationships with Key External Experts
- Gather their insights and feed these insights back into the brand team.
- Advocacy mapping and management.
- Discussions with KEE on latest scientific updates related to Cancer screening, diagnosis & management.
- Lead national/cluster advisory boards with KEE.
- Involve KEE in medico-marketing projects and internal trainings.
- Manage Real World Evidence projects. (observational studies, local data collection)

**Provide support to his direct reported MSLs**:

- Coach and develop MSLs to be best in class (scientific expertise, communication skills, business acumen).
- Provide quarterly customer insights and status of MSL plans to the brand team.

**Leadership and Functional Capabilities**:
The following summarizes the capabilities (skills, knowledge, attitude) and competencies needed to be able to accomplish all job responsibilities for this specific job function:

- Exemplify the AstraZeneca Values and behaviours.
- Demonstrate MAM Core Competencies.
- Scientific mind-set.
- Ability to seek and critically assess a large amount of data, distil, and synthesize information, put it into context and evaluate its impact on the business.
- Business acumen and strategic insight.
- Presentation skills.
- Cross-functional teamwork.
- Work autonomously and make the right priorities in a complex work environment with a high number and variety of requests.
- Be flexible, resilient and decision oriented.
- Influencing skills.
- Communication skills.
- Organizational skills.
- Project management skills

**Essential for the role**
- Medical or Pharmacist Degree (preferable medical doctor or pharmacist) or scientific degree with PhD.
- Oncology Therapy are