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Global Medical Head, Obesity

AstraZeneca
Full-time
Remote friendly (Boston, MA)
United States
Medical Affairs

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Role Summary

As the Global Medical Head, Obesity, you'll 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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