Global Medical Affairs Leader; GMAL), GU​/GYN – 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/GYN, 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/GYN 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?

• External Engagement Strategy:
  Develop a cohesive Global GU/GYN 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/GYN 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.

• 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%

• 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 on Medical Plans both in terms of evidence generation, scientific communications, and external expert engagements

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.

Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Here, science and strategy meet to change medical practice. You'll join a high-performing, open and supportive community that translates evidence into clinical impact, working shoulder-to-shoulder with diverse experts to shape how…