Global Medical Head, Obesity

AstraZeneca is advancing a tailored approach to Obesity and Weight Management uniting science medical and commercial excellence to deliver durable outcomes reduce cardiometabolic risk and protect organs. Our pipeline is moving with purpose and includes next generation oral and injectable therapies that prioritises tolerability durability and quality of life. Are you ready to be at the forefront of medical innovation As the Global Medical Head Obesity youll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of obesity care. This is your chance to use your expertise to make a real impact on patients lives. Join us in our mission to transform the patient journey from prevention to diagnosis and beyond.

The Global Medical Head Obesity is a highly experienced Medical Affairs leader with proven vision and impact. You will develop product and disease area strategy build our capability drive product launches and life cycle management provide strategic direction for evidence generation education and publication and engage extensively externally to foster the scientific leadership of AZ. It is a critical strategic leadership position that reports directly to the Medical Head of Weight Management and T2D within the Medical Affairs Cardiovascular Renal Metabolism (CVRM) area. You will be a member of global product/brand teams and will lead a team of medical professionals. You will be encouraged to develop a strong network with regions and countries and will have the ability to pair your own outstanding medical expertise with insight from markets healthcare professionals patients and health systems to develop and execute premier medical strategies globally. Through your leadership you will help build a world-class obesity capability within AstraZeneca and in doing so enable outstanding product launches practice-defining clinical studies generation of real-world evidence transformation of health systems and ultimately acceleration of population health.

Accountabilities:

• Enterprise Leadership: Builds and leads the global CVRM BPM obesity team partnering with key collaborators internally and externally
• Strategic Vision and Direction:Accountable for the development integration and implementation of strategic medical plans at a global level
• External Scientific Engagement:Credibly sets and drives a bold external engagement agenda forming strategic alliances and partnerships that can build healthcare and best practices in the obesity therapy area
• Launch Performance and Life-cycle Management:Drives innovation and sets key performance indicators (KPIs) to build disease state understanding surfaces new opportunities and deliver strategic medical plans that are bold for current and future needs

Essential skills/experience:

• Doctoral level degree (MD PhD and/or PharmD)
• 7-10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry ideally in Medical Affairs working at the country and global/regional level
• Background/expertise in the obesity therapy area
• Experienced team leader at a global/regional level with a track record of establishing high performance teams
• Demonstrated track record delivering results in a sophisticated matrix environment building capabilities and leading large scale impactful medical initiatives
• Strong analytical mind-set and ability to quickly assess large amounts of information and distill into key messages and actions
• Consistent track record to build internal and external networks and to collaborate across geographies and cultures; enterprise leader mentality
• Significant experience presenting to senior leadership; persuasive oral and written communication skills including the ability to develop and deliver executive presentations
• Understanding of the sophisticated and evolving Medical space including both existing collaborators and future trend

When we put unexpected teams in the same room we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing -person working gives us the platform we need to connect work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work on average a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesnt mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $283386 to $425080 Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including market location job-related knowledge skills and addition our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles) to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles) and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program 401(k) plan; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and health benefits including medical prescription drug dental and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired employee will be in an at-will position and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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