Do you have expertise in, and passion for Medical Affairs in Oncology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the Head of Diagnostics, OBU Global Medical role in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

In OBU Medical, we are committed to creating an exemplary organization that builds on our solid foundation of embracing digital solutions and innovation to increase capacity and delivery for our patients, simply and consistently. As part of project aMAze, we are re-aligning our medical organization to create clear career pathways and new development opportunities.

We have exciting times ahead here at OBU Medical and have started looking towards our next generation of leadership that will help us prepare for the significant portfolio growth and rapid integration of life-changing medicines for our patients.

Job Description:

Reporting to the SVP OBU Medical, the Head of Diagnostics Medical is a new position with accountability to provide future focused medical diagnostic leadership across the medical organisation.

Taking a lead in developing cross asset/tumor diagnostics strategies, the post holder will work with the Medical Leadership Team to identify and build diagnostic capabilities, opportunities and priorities to enhance the seamless adoption of therapies to guide precision medicine decision making while supporting and enabling overall Global Medical and OBU strategy

In this role there will be the accountability to build strong working relationships with our diagnostic Commercial partners, Precision medicine group in Oncology R&D, assess and build internal medical diagnostics capabilities across the globe and build strong insights into next generation diagnostics innovative patient solutions including structured partnerships.

Typical Accountabilities

• The role contributes significantly by partnering with the Global Oncology Medical Leadership Team in driving the vision and implementation of the unified Global Medical Strategy.
• Oversees long term planning and delivery of Global Medical diagnostics strategic plan to respond to confirmed and future multiple additional indications (lifecycle management) across franchises/therapeutic areas
• Accountable for translating various parallel diagnostic plans/strategic initiatives at an asset/tumor level into a consolidated, comprehensive global diagnostic portfolio.
• Will lead on the development and oversight of a robust medical diagnostic governance model to ensure business cases for investment are robust, are prioritised, avoid duplication and have clear deliverables & relevant metrics
• Will lead on the formulation of global cross asset/tumor business cases and will support diagnostics colleagues on the development of asset/tumor level plans
• Will act as the key Medical relationship owner with our Commercial Diagnostics partners to ensure the sharing and cascade of plans and information to enable further opportunities for collaboration and partnership
• Will work with Medical Excellence to identify needs and solutions to building medical diagnostics capability across above and in market OBU medical teams globally
• Will evaluate best in class resources and programs to support diagnostic launch and evidence study excellence and will lead in external engagement of new innovative medical diagnostic opportunities
• Develops Global Real World Evidence plans to ensure Real World Data and Clinical trial datais in place to inform therapy reimbursement requirements
• Builds relationships and gathers insights and data via eternal engagements (ad boards, steering committees, pathology community/associations) to inform education and partnership opportunities
• Develops global real world data/evidence strategies to analyze and translate data into recommendations for potential/alternative therapy opportunities ​

Required Experience

• Minimum 8+ years of senior leadership/specialized experience in pharma/life sciences and/or medical experience (e.g. significant clinical/academic/medical affairs agency roles/organisations) with a diagnostics focus
• Advanced Scientific degree strongly preferred e.g. MD, PhD, PharmD)
• Recognised as a subject matter Oncology expert
• Strong experience and ability to lead and provide strategic leadership across functional working groups and teams within a complex matrix organisation
• Exceptional stakeholder and communication skills with a strong situational Influencing style/ability
• Strong demonstrable experience in leading, promoting, motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organisational objectives
• Extensive experience and ability to influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive organisational relationships
• Demonstratable experience of developing strategy and translating strategy into action plans
• Expertise in product launches and mature brand development
• Extensive experience and strong ability to evaluate, interpret and present highly complex data for a series of studies (prospective and retrospective)
• Extensive project management leadership and experience required
• Significant knowledge and experience in Dx/Assay development and method evaluation
• Significant understanding of the overall drug development and commercialization
• process incl health economic outcomes research/payer access issues
• Strong experience of research into Health Industry research with a focus on Diagnostic Innovation
• Experience of developing diagnostic-focused clinical/ RWD trials
• Strong analytical interpretation and communication capability translating clinical trial and published data into strong scientific narratives for various audiences

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience of managing/leading individuals teams is strongly preferred
• Oncology medical experience and/or clinical lab experience
• End to end lean process review/mapping preferably in a medical/science arena is desirable
• Development of digital health platforms and solutions
• Leading ecosystem partnerships at scale
• Experience building and developing a new function/specialist area

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

AstraZeneca has taken critical steps to protect colleagues, loved ones, and patients from COVID-19 and its variants. Accordingly, AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. AstraZeneca will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.