Therapeutic Area Lead Cvrm

**Position: Therapeutic Area Lead CVRM**
**Location: Vienna, Austria**
**Competitive Salary, Excellent Benefits, Development Opportunities**

**About AstraZeneca**

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

**Business Area**

Ambitious and determined, we do it for our patients. Every one of us firmly believes that our disruptive thinking has the possibility to change the practice of medicine. And ultimately impact millions of lives across the world.

Leaders for the business and the industry, we are not afraid to step out of our comfort zone to make things happen.

**What you’ll do**

The Therapeutic Area Lead is an internal and externally facing medical role that strategically influences and operatively contributes to scientific leadership, life cycle management and brand strategies in the assigned therapeutic area. The TAL has medical and clinical expertise and owns full accountability for the delivery of the local medical affairs initiatives.

These could include, but are not necessarily restricted to, scientific partnership building and exchange with key experts, advisory boards, medical evidence planning, ESRs, scientific communications, competitive intelligence, patient engagement and ensuring alignment with commercial & market access initiatives.

The TA-Lead is responsible for line management of Medical Affairs Managers, Medical Advisors and Medical Science Liaisons in her/his team and ensures that the team effectively develops, implements, and executes the local medical brand plan. The delivery of medical initiatives is performed in close collaboration with other Medical and non-medical Functions, as e.g., Market Access, Patient Safety, Diagnostics, ClinOps, Regulatory Affairs. She/ he ensures, that the Medical Activities meet the needs of patients and HCPs with the highest scientific and ethical standards.

These outputs are guaranteed through continuously defining and building robust scientific and medical expertise on the therapeutic area, AstraZeneca products and its competitors in combination with a strategic business acumen attitude and strong communication skills in close collaboration with Medical Excellence and Peers.

**Other responsibilities will include**

**Medical Management**
- Acts as strategic and operative partner for implementation of the overall strategy for the TA in a cross functional model
- Integrates, interprets, and disseminates scientific evidence and content on AZ products and disease areas of focus to support the brand strategy and to support disease/product value messages to internal and external stakeholders.
- Identifies, prioritises, and reviews opportunities to generate evidence to clinically differentiate AZ products and better understand overall disease state management based on external stakeholder perspectives and the needs of AZ regions and markets
- Leads development of specific scientific communications activities, e.g. conference symposia or specific scientific meetings sponsored by AZ, such as external physician or patient expert meetings
- Delivers the appropriate interpretation and preserves the integrity of medical evidence
- Is accountable for the development and execution of the medical affairs plan according to budget and timelines
- Is accountable for the overall TA budget and resource planning
- Works in a strategic partnership with the Marketing and Market Access departments, providing key input in the local operational brand strategy by ensuring input of KEE, customer insights and competitive intelligence
- Is responsible for the overall above-brand medical TA strategy
- Acts as the patient insight expert in the assigned disease and therapeutic area team by deeply understanding the unique needs, experiences, patient journey and relevant outcomes for patients
- Facilitates patient insight knowledge sharing by raising awareness about patient insight strategies and activities
- Maintains a good working knowledge of company standards on medicines promotion and supports the Nominated Signatories in ensuring compliance standards for external audiences
- Sustains a “patient focus” in all design and interpretation activities (i.e., internal stakeholders, regulators, payers, prescribers, patients)
- Keeps own knowledge of best practices and relevant developments up to date
- Responds to unsolicited Medical Information (MI) requests about approved or unapproved AstraZeneca products, or about unapproved uses of approved AstraZeneca products
- Works together with External Service Provider for MI to meet the requirements set in the local MI procedure

**People Management**
- Provides strong leadership in managing the diverse office and field-based team.
- Coaches and develops the whole Team to develop