At AstraZeneca we believe in the potential of our people and we’ll develop you beyond what you thought possible. We make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve no matter where you start with us. As a Medical Affairs Manager - Vaccines/infectious diseases , you can bring in your ideas and capabilities with enthusiasm and competence to make a difference patients’ lives.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Customer and Account Shaping ​

• Develop and maintain scientific relationships with key customers to build customer insight and develop strategic partnerships

• Develop and leverage medical insight from internal and external customers into Medical, Brand and Account Plans

• Provide expert medical input into key Government Affairs and  Market Access activities

• Co-ordinate and execute the development of Advisory Boards and implementation of their results

• Co-ordinate and author medical responses and FAQ’s to requests for scientific exchange of information from external and internal stakeholders

• Deliver expert and customer insight into key Brand Life Cycle initiatives (MC3 etc)

• Implement educational activities within community healthcare (e.g at Hospital, office based specialist/ pharmacy level) speaker programs through briefing and training of speakers and serving as a speaker at non-promotional events (disease awareness, Mode of Action, AE management, etc)

Brand Planning and Lifecycle Management ​

• Be a full member of the relevant Brand teams, coordinating and delivering  Medical cross-functional input into TA/Brand Strategies, tactical plans and to share successes and identify/resolve issues

• Co-ordinate the development and execution of Medical Brand Plans, with identified and agreed KPIs, to support Brand objectives

• Coordinate  Medical cross-functional input into TA/Brand Strategies

• Interact with Global and Regional Medical to ensure market influence on Global Brand strategy, where applicable

• Interact with the local Clinical Operations Team (SMM) to maximise relationships with key investigators and to influence placement of critical studies/emerging products

• Develop and deliver progressive pre-launch and launch Medical Plans for new vaccines / immunology products, delivering critical insights and activities internally and externally

Campaign Development

• Input high quality medical insights and direction into campaign development

• Drive intelligent compliance through adherence to the relevant regulations / codes of practice

• Work with materials originators to ensure that all materials are fit for nominated signatory apprioval

• Ensure Medical approval of all strategic promotional and non-promotional materials (including, but not exclusively sales, media materials, governmental and other materials)

• Lead the defence of Brand-related activities following external challenges

Local evidence generation

• Leverage medical insight from internal and external customers into local evidence generation plans to support the development of Brand value propositions for the market

• Lead the clinical input into the development of RWE proposals for local value demonstration/evidence generation, to support the development of Brand value propositions

• Lead the development of study proposals for Local & Global studies, in line with the developing Value Story.

• Ensure the internal review and governance of Investigator Sponsored Studies

Compliance and Governance

• Ensure medical support for pharmacovigilance activities, including the development and execution of Risk Mitigation Activities for all Brands

• Provide expert medical input into issues management (e.g. product withdrawals, safety alerts etc

Essential Requirements

• MD, PhD, PharmD or comparable degree in natural sciences

• Prior experience in a Medical Affairs role in vaccines/ infectious diseases or immunology – a minimum of 2 years for exceptional candidates is expected

• Proven ability to interact with external customers, project and stakeholder management experience

• Fluency in written and spoken German and Englisch

• Team Player with proven track record of cross functional collaboration, effective team working and accountability

• High ethical standards

• Possesses business-accumen and thinking, able to apply this without compromising the scientific and ethical standards

• Structured and organized

• Driving licence B

Our attractive pay package offers a market competitive salary , an excellent performance related bonus scheme, a very attractive pension scheme and a lot of incentives including possibilities for personal development

Date Posted

Closing Date

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.