Global Patient Insights & Solution (GPIS), PATHS Strategic Partner

Mississauga - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Patient Experience Team (PEX) team fuels Alexion AstraZeneca Rare Diseases corporate priorities by ensuring the patient voice guides every stage of our work. We integrate insights to strengthen R&D programs and influence launches enable local markets to accelerate access and awareness and leverage community alliances to embed their voice across the healthcare system.

Our impact comes from connecting the right stakeholders at the right time to create outcomes greater than the sum of their parts positioning Alexion as the trusted leader in rare disease.

Reporting to the Head of Global Patient Insights & Solutions (GPIS) the PATHS Strategic Partner shapes and drives the generation and integration of rare disease patient insights to inform disease strategy from drug development through commercialization. It connects perspectives across HCPs payers regulators and patients to drive rare disease patient access to medicines.

This role is responsible for identifying ways to elevate the patient voice across access pathways thirdparty advocacy and ecosystem stakeholder influence directly supporting geographic expansion. The PATHS Strategic Partner will apply and tailor the PATHS (Patient Accelerated Transformative Healthcare Systems) framework and will design new tools aligned with internal stakeholder needs. They will cross-fertilize learnings across countries market archetypes and disease areas.

In this role you will enhance Alexions commitment and demonstration of patient centricity. Through shaping and driving internal understanding of the patient perspective this individual will impact Alexion Astra Zeneca Rare Disease strategic decision making.

While part of the Global Medical Affairs (GMA) team this role collaborates closely with adjacent functionsincluding Global and Country Corporate Affairs Patient Advocacy Regulatory Medical Affairs Marketing and Market Access.

You will be responsible for:

Patient Insight Generation and Conversion to Action

Sets priorities and objectives on patient voice amplification to drive patient access in key markets and disease areas.
Serve as enterprise owner and steward of the PATHS framework producing and scaling foundational patient insights and systematically crossfertilizing best practices across market archetypes and indications.
Strategically lead crossfunctional efforts across global and country teams to amplify the patient voice to advance raredisease policy and access and to consistently translating impact.

Amplification and Communication

Elevate the patient voice cross-functionally ensuring insights inform enterprise strategies across the access pathway.
Develop and implement innovative AIenabled and experiential approaches to communicate and roll-out patient insights globally.
Act as a trusted advisor to global and country leadership teams on leveraging the patient voice to shape portfolio and access strategy.
Measure and communicate impact with qualitative and quantitative metrics to inform investment and prioritization decisions.

Collaboration and Matrix Leadership

Drive alignment across global regional and local teams to ensure unified patientinsight strategy execution by being an active member and contributor to global cross-functional teams (i.e. launch value strategic planning teams etc.).
Foster a patient-first culture ensuring systematic patient insight representation at major internal forums (e.g. Brand Forums Disease Strategic Planning) to keep the organization connected to our purpose.
Collaborate closely within Patient Experience to connect external patient perspectives with internal business priorities.
Limited domestic and international travel (10-15%)

You will need to have:

Bachelorsdegree:degree in data science or managementpreferred.
3 to 5 years of experience in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry or equivalent.
Experience developing innovative solutions to address critical business challenges with the ability toadapt quicklyto diseasearea and team needs.
Drive change by transforming traditional datause practices into leadingedge modern approaches working in partnership with colleagues.
Demonstrated passion for patient and caregiver focusedwork.
Proven capability to operate independently with accountability for influencing senior leadership decisions across Global Medical Affairs and the broader enterprise.
Proficiencyin Microsoft Officeand Teams.
The duties of this role aregenerally conductedin an office is typical of an office-based role employees must be able with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone video and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought analysis and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

We would prefer for you to have:

Advanced degreea plus( MD RN MBA etc.)
Experience in Rare Disease
Market Access Policy experience
Knowledge of healthcare systems in multiple countries
Expertise in AI

Annual base salary for this position ranges from 0.00 to 0.00.

AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations. The base pay offered will vary depending on multiple individualized factors including the candidates skills and experience job-related knowledge and other specific business and organizational some cases offers outside the range may also be considered to address unique circumstances.

In addition our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (if applicable to role). Benefits offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program 4 weeks paid vacation and annual Personal Days. Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions (excluding students) are offered a Contract Benefits Program.

We are using AI as part of the recruitment process.

This advertisement relates to a current vacancy.