AstraZeneca
Medical Science Liaison Manager – Breast
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Medical Science Liaison Manager – Breast
Territory
North East England, Scotland and NI
Competitive Salary & Benefits
Introduction to Role
Join us as a Medical Science Liaison in our Oncology Business Unit, where you'll be an ambassador for AstraZeneca’s Oncology portfolio. You'll engage in scientific exchange with Key External Experts, Health Care Professionals, and Clinical Investigators, identifying medical unmet needs and evidence gaps in our product portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to leverage skills from across the business to go further and join a cross-functional team, working together and sharing knowledge across teams, roles and levels.
Accountabilities
As a regional field medical affairs expert, you'll share knowledge and insight with cross-functional colleagues, support research discussions with clinical leaders in your dedicated region and engage in account level cross-functional working with sales and market access colleagues. You'll maintain an understanding of local health economy and how that interacts with the patient pathways relevant to the Breast Cancer therapy area. You'll also own relationships and partnerships with priority KEEs and support KEE professional development.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Life sciences degree or other appropriate qualification (e.g. nursing, pharmacy)
- Clinical, scientific or life sciences background – within Oncology
- Experience identifying opportunities for service redesign and care transformation: ability to assess clinical pathways and operational workflows, service improvement opportunities, and contribute to co-creation with stakeholders to inform actionable change proposals that improve access, efficiency, or patient outcomes in oncology settings.
- Previous medical affairs experience: Insight-led, data-driven and digitally enabled approach to field medical engagement
- Communication and presentation skills
- Business insight/entrepreneurship; seek out opportunities and new ways of working
- Understanding of evidence-based medicine and its application into clinical practice
- Understanding of ABPI Code of Practice and its practical application
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Desirable Skills/Experience
- Previous experience working within a Medical Science Liaison role within Pharma (Ideally within Oncology or NHS Cancer experience)
- Higher degree in science or business subject
- Experience in the development of clinical trial programmes in the support of the therapy area portfolio an advantage
- Experience of account management
- Knowledge +/- experience of real-world data projects
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Why AstraZeneca?
As Leaders within Oncology, our ability to effectively and creatively market our products and lead our business has a meaningful impact. It powers our business to lead the way for the industry and to impact more lives, making a difference to those living with cancer. Working across our broad and innovative pipeline, we fuse our business mindset and scientific knowledge to bring transformative medicines and novel treatments to those who need it the most.
At AstraZeneca UK, we are committed to delivering against three missions:
- Accelerating the position of the UK as a global centre of excellence in life sciences
- Redefining healthcare through fast and equitable access to the most effective medicines, high quality care
- Delivering sustainable leadership that prioritises healthy people, society and planet
Our head office in Pancras Square offers us the strongest possible platform to transform the lives of patients, as the country’s leading biopharmaceutical company. It brings AstraZeneca UK closer to our customers, partners and collaborators in the UK’s healthcare environment, as well as develop greater collaboration with the wider AstraZeneca footprint
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