Medical Ta Lead

**Strategic Planning and**Delivery**:

- Ensure the Field Medical Strategic Plan (FMSP) and field medical activities are prioritized and aligned with the Medical Affairs Strategic Plans
- Ensure the Field Medical Plan includes an Integrated Engagement plan with an appropriate ratio of traditional and non-traditional stakeholders.
- Work closely with the Medical Affairs Team and cross functional team to provide input to medical and product strategies.
- Drives prioritization of activities across the team to ensure appropriate focus on portfolio priorities.
- Identify opportunities and initiate discussion potential strategic, scalable & sustainable clinical practice transformations initiatives that can impact on patient access to quality care.
- Ensures the team leverages Digital and innovation / technology as an enabler for patient centric solutions and effectively contributes to enhancing equitable access to people in assigned accounts / clinics / healthcare systems.
- Leverage technology, available data / dashboards to drive data-driven decisions to support internal discussions and external engagements.
- Contribute on field and external stakeholder insights and perspectives in medical and brand internal strategic discussions and communicate internally on actionable items as appropriate.
- Provide regular updates to team and broader organization on delivery versus plan, variance to plan, proposed mitigation with emphasis on internal & external strategic and patient impact.
- Ensures own knowledge of best practices and new relevant developments is kept up to date with understanding of its relevance to the team(s).

**Medical strategy and clinical input**
- Drive Medically led/co-led initiatives, on an identified gap in collaboration with CFTs, that contributes to an overarching plan mapped to drive positive patient outcomes.
- Leverage medical expertise to design, implement, and oversee real-world evidence (RWE) projects. Identifies reliable suitable data sources and ensure the scientific rigor and integrity of real-world studies.
- Responsible for interpreting and communicating the findings from RWE projects with a strong focus on translating RWE into actionable insights that can internally inform medical and commercial strategies and externally ultimately improve patient outcomes and inform healthcare decision-making.
- Establish AstraZeneca as a scientific leader through proactive medical inputs.
- Lead educational initiatives, developing clinical support tools, and providing scientific expertise to support the integration of new medical advancements into clinical practice.
- Puts in place measures to showcase the impact of initiatives.
- Agile adoption of innovation through win-win partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem that are scalable and can enable sustainable patient outcomes.

**Medical Governance Oversight**
- Leads a team that ensures all product materials for a specific therapy area are kept up to date and accurate.
- Personally, provides expert scientific support/approval on product materials involving large or more complex drugs, or documents and reports for more important conferences/symposiums.
- Has signatory authority on outgoing therapy area materials if needed.
- Advises the marketing team as a medical healthcare expert ensuring the medical and scientific accuracy of outgoing marketing materials.
- Ensures that all branding work is carried out in accordance with AstraZeneca standards and external regulation.

**Team & People Management**:

- Recruit the right talent based on capabilities and abilities required for the field medical role.
- Ensure the optimal environment for the field medical team development, growth, and high performance.
- Foster a culture of I&D, agility, innovative mindset, win-win partnerships and collaboration.
- Lead an effective, strategic, and outcomes-oriented field medical team(s) with a high level of scientific expertise.
- Manage and drive team’s performance with measures and metrics put in place that reflect meaningful patient outcomes with continuous improvement approach.
- Lead a team with comprehensive understanding of the healthcare ecosystem to address population health discussions and deliver outcomes that address impact across the patient pathway.
- Guide the team(s) to have a deep understanding of stakeholder needs to effectively communicate complex scientific information using the right content and channel mix.
- Ensure the team’s quality and promptness of status, information and insights reported back to the cross-functional teams and in company tracking systems.
- Role model as an expert in the assigned therapeutic area with well established relationships with key healthcare professionals.
- Conduct one on one meetings/field visits to coach and review according to the most up-to-date global field medical engagement model on proficiency and related capabilities.
- Role model the AstraZeneca values fostering personal accountability, ownership