Medical Lead, Alpine (Switzerland & Austria)

Medical Lead, Alpine (Switzerland & Austria)

Location: Baar  - Switzerland

Reports To: Country Director, Alpine

Dotted line to CENE Regional Medical Director

This is what you will do:

The Alpine Medical Lead is a member of the Alpine Leadership team as well as the CENE Medical Affairs Team and will provide scientific and medical leadership for Rare Disease Therapeutic Areas by establishing an in depth understanding of the relevant medical landscape in relation to relevant disease states and Alexion products.

The Medical Lead will be developing and implementing long-term strategy and building medical affairs practices and infrastructure in line with overall Alexion strategy. The Medical Lead will provide strategic insight and input to Alexion activities in the therapeutic areas (TAs) and will provide support to all functions within the countries to ensure achievement of local objectives and further to the global medical affairs mission to maximize patient outcomes by setting and continuously advancing the evidence-based medical standard of care. The Medical Lead will ensure implementation, coordination, and communication between regional and local organizations in all medical matters, acting as medical expert for the TAs, including support for other functions. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong scientific knowledge, business acumen, medical leadership, is a persuasive communicator of science and has an entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to work collaboratively across different functions and countries.

You will be responsible for:

• Demonstrate leadership, direction, and accountability for leading, coaching and managing direct reports to ensure achievements of business objectives and personal development.
• Development and implementation of the medical affairs strategy and plan for assigned therapeutic areas, including RWE and account specific HEOR projects.
• Lead and support the development of external relationships with relevant medical societies and key stakeholders.
• Close collaboration with the Patient advocacy team to develop relationships and partnerships with relevant Patient association groups.
• Demonstrate strong business acumen to ensure the medical affairs strategy enables the achievement of Alpine priorities.
• Collaboration with clinical operations and medical advisor pipeline (MAP) to support the performance of clinical study feasibility, effective study implementation and ongoing management of trials, including disease registries in Alpine.
• Maintain strong knowledge of Alexion therapeutic areas, current developments, and competitive environment.
• Attend appropriate national and international meetings and congresses.
• Support local Market Access activities and reimbursement applications
• Maintain knowledge about local laws and guidelines, codes of practices and Alexion policies relevant to medical affairs activities.
• Spend time in the field to provide appropriate support and coaching to the medical team (30 % expected)

You will need to have:

• Medical degree (M.D.) or pharmacist or advanced degree in medical science (PhD in a scientific or related field and/or equivalent experience)
• German is a must, French a plus.
• 7+ years-experience in the pharmaceutical or the biotech industry: rare disease experience is plus.
• At least 3 years of People Leadership experience
• Experience as a medical affairs manager or medical therapeutic area lead
• Strong x-functional collaboration mindset 
• Knowledge of at least one of the Alpine market access & regulatory requirements
• Ability to manage all aspects of medical affairs responsibilities on regional as well as country level.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both local language and in English
• Willing to travel

We would prefer for you to have:

• Strategic thinking, very good planning skills and budget management
• Experience in leading/implementing local RWE studies.
• Experience with new product launches
• Ability to work in a high pace environment.

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.