Medical Evidence Leader Eucan

AstraZeneca’s dedicated Oncology unit is the place to build a world-class career. AstraZeneca’s vision in Oncology is to help patients by redefining the cancer-treatment paradigm with the bold ambition to eliminate cancer as a cause of death. We are proud to work on ground-breaking science with one of the broadest and deepest Oncology pipelines in the business. As a **Europe and Canada Medical Affairs Leader** Zug, Switzerland you’ll play a pivotal role in channelling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives.

AstraZeneca is seeking an EU and Canada (EUCAN) Medical Affairs Leader to join our EUCAN Medical Affairs team to **navigate the evidence generation and RWE landscape, and leverage external partnership collaborations**. This role reports to the EUCAN Head of Medical Affairs.

**Responsibilities**:
The EUCAN Evidence Generation Lead will work closely with the EUCAN Senior Regional Medical Affairs leaders to:

- Ensure timely, high-quality input into global medical, lifecycle plans, develops and execute EUCAN regional strategy and tactical plans as well as supports OBU-7 countries tactical plans development and execution
- Collaboration with the other global, regional and country medical leaders, to ensure strategic alignment of EUCAN publication plans and medical evidence generation plans
- Collaborate with External Alliance group to leverage strategic and long-term partnerships with relevant internal and external Oncology European and Canadian stakeholders and decision makers, through the development of AZ’s scientific leadership with advocacy, scientific organisations, and guidelines groups
- Plan and leverage strategy for proactive healthcare, epidemiology and outcome surveillance capability established, leveraging sponsored and public RWE sources in partnership with AZ data strategy groups

**Accountable for**:
**Enhancing patient outcomes** through development and execution of robust evidence plans to support key strategic imperatives for the disease area/brand by:

- Coordinating and leading the evidence generation planning for the Region including disease area aligned RWE data source mapping, capability assessment and gap assessment in EUCAN 7
- Plan and leverage strategy for established epidemiology and broad endpoints and outcome longitudinal surveillance capability by leveraging sponsored and public RWE sources; applicability to EUCAN data strategy
- Mapping and oversight tracking of holistic evidence generation universe in EUCAN
- Leveraging appropriate RWE collection implementation alongside early access strategy, and enhancing PRO and QoL data collection plans to aide access and uptake evidence generated for HTA inclusion

**Forging collaborative partnerships **to identify opportunities to improve care pathways and partner on innovative initiatives which support early detection, HCP or patient experience and access to care by:

- Working with External Alliances and other internal stakeholders to establish strategic partnership models and support established research networks to implement an enhanced Research Collaboration strategy
- Working with External Alliances and other internal stakeholders to identify data sources and external collaborators to align on indication level and disease area needs for efficiencies in RWE delivery and innovative projects
- Oversight of EUCAN strategy for External Scientific Research (Investigator Initiated Studies) strategic triage and process implementation by tracking evidence generation projects for the EUCAN medical team and associated metrics, for optimal operationalisation of EUCAN late-stage commitments

Finally, you will contribute to the broader strategic planning universe to build AstraZeneca's medical leadership in EUCAN region and deliver critical medical insights into the development and execution of disease area and brand plans.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Advanced scientific degree (MD, MSc, PhD, PharmD)
- Significant Medical Affairs headquarters (Country or Global / Regional) experience with substantial pharmaceutical or relevant medical/clinical experience at a minimum
- Demonstrated leadership skills in a cross-functional team environment
- Proven understanding of the lifecycle of oncology compounds, competition landscapes, and oncology environment
- Expertise in data generation to deliver on evidence gaps which drive value to access, uptake, and HCP confidence
- Understanding of drug development and commercialisation processes including understanding of outcomes research /payer access issues
- Proven ability to generate, analyse and interpret clinical trial and published data
- Track record of successfully developing and executing Medical Plans both in terms of evidence generation, scientific communications and external expert engagements
- Ability to manage multiple projects and products simultaneously to ensure timely, on-target and within budget accomplishment of tasks
- Good commun