Medical Manager - AstraZeneca

JOB TITLE

KSA Medical Manager Respiratory (Riyadh)

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global scienceled patientfocused biopharmaceutical company that discovers develops and commercializes prescription medicines for some of the worlds most serious diseases. But were more than one of the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies.

Role Summary

KSA Medical Manager is a core member of the brand team and takes the medical lead in the Respiratory franchise through

1) Providing key medical input to the marketingsalesmarket access interface

2) Deliver strategic educational and practice change medical affairs projects.

3) Engaging key external experts (KEE) and change advocates.

4) Field coaching for Medical Science Liaisons (MSL) in Respiratory Therapy area.

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

What youll do

Maintain topnotch robust scientific and medical expertise:

• Keep track of relevant scientific peerreviewed literature.
• Attend international and national scientific and medical congresses as needed.
• Engage with all relevant KEEs and change advocates across KSA.
• Assimilate customer insights obtained through different means.
• Ensure excellent uptodate scientific knowledge in product and therapeutic areas among internal colleagues through knowledge updates and 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.

Deliver key medical input into the brand strategy:

• Own and lead the execution of the prelaunch readiness milestones and building new class advocacy for new launches.
• Works in a strategic partnership with the value team (e.g. Marketing and Market Access team)
• Core member of the crossfunctional brand team.
• Highquality scientific and medical input in the Brand Teams Brand brandbuilding framework strategic brand projects and Campaigns
• Participate in developing and evaluating the local operational brand strategy by ensuring the input of KEEs customer insights and competitive intelligence.
• Responsible for reviewing and approving promotional material solutiondriven with a thorough understanding of the promotional standards code (company and local)
• Responsible for medical training of the 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 retroplanning of projects with close followup in line with defined goals and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Close followup 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 longterm professional relationships with Key External Experts
• Gather their insights and feed these insights back to the brand team.
• Advocacy mapping building and management.
• Discussions with KEEs on the latest scientific updates on Asthma and COPD diagnosis treatment and management optimization.
• Lead national advisory boards and scientific exchange meetings with KEE.
• Involve KEE in medicomarketing projects and internal training.
• 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 with a growth mindset.
• 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.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Crossfunctional teamwork and conflict management skills.
• 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

• Pharmacist Degree (preferably medical doctor or pharmacist) or scientific degree with PhD.
• At least 3 years of experience in a medical affairs role in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven expertise in understanding assimilating and communicating scientific content.
• Entrepreneurial and collaborative approach to engaging with external partners as well as crossfunctional colleagues.
• Working knowledge and understanding of relevant Legislation and Codes of Practice relating to promotional activities.
• Demonstrated understanding of patient needs.
• Current familiarity with the healthcare environment including opinion leaders academia the medical community and related dynamics in KSA.
• Knowledgeable of the Pharma and KSA healthcare environment.
• Experience in developing and maintaining External Experts relationships.
• Medical integrity and ethical balance.
• Languages: Fluent in English

Desirable for the role

• People management experience.
• Experience in new launches and portfolio management.
• Experience in a strategysetting role within Medical Affairs.
• Experience in navigating complex business challenges.
• Working knowledge of local health authorities requirements.
• Knowledge and expertise in the Respiratory therapy area.

Why AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca were dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. Theres no better place to make a difference in medicine patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration and always committed to lifelong learning growth and development. Were on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So whats next

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team Good because we cant wait to hear from you.
• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope its yours.

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