Are you an experienced Program or Project Leader with a Scientific or Medical background?  Would you like to join a company where we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide? Join us and see what science can do!

At AstraZeneca, we believe in the potential of our people and allow you opportunities to develop beyond what you ever thought possible. We will make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve, and stretch your boundaries no matter where you start with us.

At Late Respiratory & Immunology (Late R&I), part of the BioPharmaceutical R&D unit, we are driven by innovation and our dedication to make a real-life difference for patients’ lives. That difference starts with you.

Building on a 50-year heritage in respiratory care, our ambition is to transform the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by driving earlier, biology-led treatment, eliminating preventable asthma attacks, and removing COPD as a top-three leading cause of death.

Underpinning chronic lung diseases is an altered immune system. We are following the science of common pathways and underlying disease drivers from respiratory disease into immunology-driven disease areas.

The disease areas we’re targeting include rheumatology (including type 1 interferon-driven diseases such as lupus), dermatology, gastroenterology and systemic eosinophilic-driven diseases. Our ambition is to achieve disease modification and durable remission in these diseases for millions of patients worldwide.

Here, you will get the opportunity to work in a truly international environment, within a world-renowned environment of delivering new medicines. You will work with your clinical colleagues and meet with key opinion leaders, alongside first class basic and translational scientists - in addition to experts in regulatory, commercial and medical marketing.

What you’ll do

As Global Product Leader, you will assume a key leadership role of a cross-functional Global Product Team (GPT) whose role is to deliver a successful product or indication strategy and plan aligned to the global brand strategy from initial Phase 3 development through life cycle management (LCM) of the new or established brand.   

You will lead the development and delivery of the indication or brand strategy, program design, and development plans, and work in close partnership with commercial colleagues to maximize the value of the indication or brand. This includes creating business cases for governance endorsement including investment decisions for new clinical programs, decisions to file regulatory submissions and commercialize the product or indication and subsequent LCM.  In addition, you will ensure that additional program elements are in place to maximize success, including RWE, medical, and additional scientific/mechanistic studies.

A strong, inclusive, creative and visible leadership style will be essential to successfully lead and nurture the cross-functional GPT. You will grow and leverage your network of key stakeholders and experts to collaborate and win together for the benefit of patients.

You will have the overall responsibility to ensure appropriate governance and compliance to protect AstraZeneca´s rights, data, and intellectual Property

We will rely on you to:

• Drive opportunity, risk and issue management in an effective, compliant, and transparent way at strategic and operational levels
• Drive innovative and novel ways to accelerate drug development and maximize value of the brand for patients and the company
• Ensure that all governance and compliance issues are identified, reported and managed appropriately and in line with AstraZeneca’s code of ethics
• Be accountable for rigorous financial oversight of project(s), ensuring delivery of overall development plan(s) to agreed milestones, cost and quality

Essential for the role

We believe that you have a science-based degree or are medically qualified. You have experience and expertise in the late stage drug development process, coupled with strong regulatory and commercial insight. Additionally, you are a natural when it comes to communicating and translating technical information into relevant business language to colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.

You also possess:

• Proven track record of delivering programme or projects, risk management and decision making
• Strong vision and excellent problem-solving skills and ability to communicate and influence with both internal and external partners.
• Experience of the Respiratory, Immunology or other relevant therapeutic area
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Desirable for the role

• Postgraduate qualification
• MBA
• A sound appreciation of the political, economic, social and technological challenges facing the Life Sciences industry today
• Cross functional team leadership experience

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 opportunities and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering groundbreaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

If you are ready to make a difference - apply today, and we'll make it happen together!

We welcome your application no later than June 21, 2020

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Ensuring the health and wellbeing of our employees and the patients on our clinical trials is of paramount importance to us at AstraZeneca. We fully support and commend the vital role physicians are undertaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to recruit open physician vacancies, making use of digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit great talent, but we want you to be aware that we are happy to discuss postponing start dates, releasing you for voluntary/ paid clinical work or similar activities during this time.  We thank you in advance for all you are doing for patients in these challenging times.

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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.