Healthcare Medical Partner

**Healthcare Medical Partner**

**Field based: Central Switzerland**

**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.

About the Integrated Healthcare Team at AstraZeneca Switzerland

Our goal is simple, but ambitious, we aim to actively contribute to advance clinical practice and reduce the overall burden of prevalent chronic diseases that are leading causes of mortality in Switzerland, taking as notable examples COPD or Chronic Kidney Disease.

However, we can only achieve this ambition if we contribute to changing clinical practice in a sustainable way: We want to give patients access to medical innovations. With targeted measures, we not only want to draw the attention of the population, patients and treating HCPs, but also support the early identification of symptoms plus the implementation of current treatment guidelines.

We are convinced that by working together with various stakeholders in the Swiss healthcare system, we can reduce the consequences of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular complications, hospital admissions or premature deaths, by 50 percent by 2030.

**What you’ll do**

As the Healthcare Medical Partner, you will be a scientific expert in the field with a specific focus on engaging in high-level scientific exchange, on exploring, building, and maintaining meaningful partnerships with external partners in primary care, and on understanding and uncovering unmet medical needs to develop sustainable medical solutions that aim to improve patients care.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals in the defined region (nurses, consultants, pharmacists, community healthcare professionals and diverse healthcare decision-makers) have the disease awareness and scientific understanding to accelerate and improve care for patients with chronic diseases such as CKD or COPD.

You will support improving local patient pathways through a thorough understanding of the local environment and collaborating where appropriate in optimising that pathway.

**Other responsibilities will include**:

- Mapping and understanding of local healthcare structures, disease management plans, patient journeys, societies, and HCP needs (especially in primary care)
- Close cooperation and coordination with the cross-functional brand and account teams to share insights and gain knowledge in relation to the defined strategies to better identify and meet customer needs
- Identifying the pain poinchallenges that delay early diagnosis and/or treatment of patients with chronic diseases (focus on cardiovascular/kidney/respiratory diseases).
- Identification of established networks between primary care providers and specialist fields as well as close cooperation with internal stakeholders to improve them or establish new ones and to promote scientific exchange
- Development of a solution portfolio: partner with healthcare professionals (through scientific exchanges, medical education, data generation or other medical programs) to identify those patients who could benefit from early diagnosis/referral or joint treatment by GPs and specialists
- Implementation of solutions that could benefit patient care in chronic diseases (focus on cardiovascular/kidney/respiratory diseases) (e.g. diagnostic tools, PoC implementation, tele-monitoring, etc.)
- Development of new ways/measures to increase awareness and action (focus on cardiovascular/kidney/respiratory diseases) to identify and treat the patient's disease state at an early stage.

**Crucial for the role**
- Experience in clinical research and/or medical affairs & education, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on primary care
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including communicating complex technical, scientific, or medical information to various audiences
- Ability to interact and manage a range of partners both internally and externally.
- Prior experience in a customer facing role.
- ** Fluency in German and English.**:

- Valid driving licence.

**Desirable for the role**
- Experience in managing and designing digital projects and assets
- Knowledge in cardiovascular, renal, metabolic or respiratory diseases is a plus
- Good knowledge of French and/or Italian

**We offer**
- A lively, exciting, and international environment
- Growth and development in a hard-working and encouraging team setting
- An exciting challenge in a successful pharmaceutical company with highly innovative product portfolio
- An attractive package rounds-off this exciting offer
- A place where you can learn and expand your skills

**Why AstraZeneca?**

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