Global Medical Affairs Leader- Expert Engagement

Are you ready to turn scientific evidence into meaningful expert engagement that elevates standards of cancer care? As the Global Medical Affairs Leader for external engagement in GU/Radioconjugates, you will connect our science to the world’s most influential voices, shaping conversations at major congresses and across indications so patients benefit sooner. Working hand-in-hand with indication leads, GMALs, and cross-functional partners, you will design and deliver a unified engagement strategy across assets and indications, ensuring coherent scientific exchange and high-quality execution. Reporting to the Global Medical GU/Radioconjugates Franchise Head, you will be pivotal in how our pipeline is perceived, discussed and adopted globally. Do you thrive on orchestrating a single, cohesive narrative across multiple conferences, stakeholders and geographies? Accountabilities: • External Engagement Strategy: Develop a cohesive Global GU/Radioconjugates Engagement Strategy that reflects the strategic priorities across the franchise, ensuring a consistent and compelling scientific narrative across assets and indications. • Congress Orchestration: Coordinate congress engagement planning to maximise the impact of Global Medical at major conferences, elevating visibility and clarity of our science. • Cross-Functional Alignment: Oversee the GU/Radioconjugates GMA external engagement planning and outreach process for major congresses to ensure a smooth, cross-functionally aligned approach from planning through debrief. • Scientific Exchange Leadership: Successfully deliver key global scientific exchange activities, including large in-person events, that reflect the therapy area strategy and drive practical adoption of evidence. • Compliance Stewardship: Ensure all Medical and business activities are carried out in compliance with AZ standards, standard operating procedures and external regulations; awareness of different market compliance regulations is a plus. • Stakeholder Partnership and Influence: Partner closely with indication leads, Medical peers and GMALs to align priorities, influence without authority and drive consistent, high-quality execution. • Insight Generation and Continuous Improvement: Capture insights from experts and congresses, synthesize learnings and feed them back into strategies and medical plans to continually raise the bar. • Measurement and Reporting: Define clear objectives and success metrics for engagement, track outcomes and communicate impact to senior leaders to inform future investment and strategy. Essential Skills/Experience: • Minimum of Master’s degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent medical/scientific qualifications and/or significant industry and/or therapeutic experience. • At least 4 years of experience within pharma/life sciences and/or medical experience (e.g. significant clinical/academic/medical affairs agency roles/organizations) • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Experience of multi stakeholder management • Experience of delivery of medical plans and strategic medical initiatives • Ability to influence others without authority • Strong project management skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams • Good understanding of drug development and commercialization processes including understanding of outcomes research /payer access issues • Proven ability to generate, analyze and interpret clinical trial and published data • Willingness to travel, 10-20% Desirable Skills/Experience: • Advanced Scientific degree preferred (PhD, PharmD) • 3+ years in a Head Quarters Medical Affairs role or Global Clinical R&D • Oncology experience, lung cancer experience is preferred • Documented track record of successfully executing