Global Medical Affairs Leader, Obesity

Role Summary

Global Medical Affairs Leader, Obesity. Lead medical strategy and execution across the product lifecycle for obesity initiatives, shaping evidence generation, scientific leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to drive market impact and patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership across the entire product lifecycle; advise on R&D investments, lead pre-launch scientific efforts, and accelerate real-world evidence and healthcare changes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Commercial, Evidence Generation, Medical Information, Publications, Market Access, and R&D to ensure strategic alignment and compliant delivery of medical resources.
• Bridge Global Product Teams and Regional Medical teams to align on global product and disease area strategies; enable affiliates to execute launches, transform health systems, and conduct practice-defining studies.
• Drive external scientific engagement with international thought leaders, societies, and health organizations to ensure AstraZeneca’s voice and science lead the conversation.
• Lead or contribute to study leadership and evidence-generation activities underpinning medicines and diagnostics transformation.

Qualifications

• Essential: Master’s degree with 3–5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (Medical, Marketing, R&D, Market Access) or equivalent health system experience; demonstrated strategic and medical leadership pre- and post-launch; strong analytical and strategic thinking with ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Desirable: Medical doctor with obesity medicine experience; experience with the USA health care system; doctoral-level degree (MD, PhD, PharmD); recognized expertise in the therapeutic area; experience leading interventional trials or real-world evidence studies; ability to operate in complex, matrixed organizations; track record of launching new products or indications; established relationships with global clinical thought leaders and healthcare organizations; strong collaboration and networking skills; experience in global evidence generation programs; location preference: Boston, MA.

Skills

• Strategic medical leadership
• Evidence generation design and execution (clinical trials and real-world evidence)
• Cross-functional collaboration and influence
• Scientific storytelling and content development
• Global and regional medical strategy alignment

Education

• Master’s degree required; additional doctoral-level degree preferred

Additional Requirements

• Location preference for Boston, Massachusetts, USA