Medical Advisor Oncology, Sweden - Nordic Marketing Company

At AstraZeneca we turn ideas into life changing medicines and strive to continuously meet the unmet needs of patients worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person!

As part of AstraZeneca the Nordic Marketing Company (Nordic) employs around 400 people across 5 countries and has offices located in Södertälje, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo. By 2025 AstraZeneca Nordic aims to become a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and improve the lives of millions of people. This will be achieved by driving innovative science, preparing launches, building close collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders in health care systems, and developing high-performing teams.



Within AstraZeneca's Nordic marketing organisation we have the opportunity every day to change the patient journey, and improve the lives of people across the planet. Looking at the outside world, we meet in a creative and strategic environment with a dynamic cross-border cooperation.



AstraZeneca has a strong and inspiring Oncology pipeline that includes both small molecules and immune therapy. We are therefore looking for you to come and join us as our new Medical Advisor within Breast Cancer. In this role you work closely with colleagues across Nordic area to execute the Medical Affairs Oncology strategy.


Eli Bergli is leading this team and with her long managerial experience she will empower you to do your job in the best way you can. The team's communication is open, honest and transparent, always with a clear focus on improvement and development. And from Eli, you can expect an attendant manager who always supports and helps you to deliver on your goals, and develop new ones!



The role

In the role as Medical Advisor you will play a pivotal role in supporting the strategy and clinical development of our oncology products, contribute to international & regional studies with medical input on feasibility, choice of study centers, site follow up and support. Additionally, you will ensure implementation and conduct of expanded access programs, compassionate use programs, and individual patient supply programs.

A core element in this role is, that you develop long-term professional relationships, build advocacy with, and gain contributions from Health Care Professionals (HCPs) and decision makers. Drive proactive and reactive interactions through collecting and sharing medical and scientific knowledge across the oncology portfolio while assuring quality and deliverables are in accordance with written procedures, current legal requirements, and internal standards.


You provide medical input to both Regulatory Affairs, Health Economics, Pharmacovigilance and Market Access & Reimbursement to support their relevant initiatives.


Accountabilities:

* Collaborate closely with HCPs, and other experts, to ensure appropriate use of established and future AZ products
* Contribute in developing study concepts, identify new opportunities, and work closely with national investigators to generate data to help inform clinical practice
* Work cross-functionally to provide medical input on product strategies, cross functional plans and key deliverables including reimbursement dossiers
* Collaborate with, and provide medical support to Medical Information and Regulatory Affairs



In order to succeed you have

* University degree as MD, PhD, MSc in pharmacy or Life Sciences
* Preferably, more than 2 years of experience as a successful Medical Science Liaison or Medical Advisor within oncology
* Ability to collaborate externally and internally
* Business-oriented thinking, without compromising the scientific elements of the work
* Driver's license required



You must have excellent communication and presentation skills, fluent in both written and spoken Swedish as well as English. You are structured, organized and able to keep deadlines without compromising on quality.

Your proven ability to understand, assimilate, and communicate scientific information to a variety of audiences will be as important for the role as will your high ethical standard and good knowledge in pharmaceutical ethical framework. Proficient knowledge of the Healthcare Systems as well as drug development and commercialization processes in Sweden is a strong advantage.



Why AstraZeneca? Our offer to you
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 to our patients is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments 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 cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.



Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.

For more information about the position please contact: recruiting manager Eli Bergli, Phone: +47 977 52 653, email: eli.bergli@astrazeneca.com

Welcome with your application, in English, no later than October 11th, 2020. Applications will be reviewed continuously throughout the application period.