# Associate Global Medical Director, Rare Hematology, Nephrology and Transplant **Company**: Global Medical Affairs - Medical Disease Area Group - IgAN **Location**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $150,202.00 - $225,303.00 **Category**: Medical **Industry**: Pharmaceutical **Apply**: https://astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/563877690205466?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c7c981d8-238 ## Description In this role, you will report to a Senior Director and join a highly collaborative, patient-focused team that turns complex medical insight into clear global plans. You will help set the direction for pre- and post-launch medical affairs, ensuring evidence generation, scientific communications and external education are tightly aligned to what matters most for patients and clinicians. Your work will connect strategy with real-world execution across countries, giving you a direct line of sight to impact! Key responsibilities include: - Co-developing and implementing the global medical strategy and annual plans for pre- and post-launch activities, providing medical leadership that aligns cross-functional teams and countries to clear objectives. - Providing strategic medical input to late-phase pipeline and in-line life cycle management, ensuring decisions are grounded in science, clinical practice and patient needs. - Developing Phase 3b/4 and externally sponsored research evidence plans for late-phase and in-line programs, prioritising studies that close critical gaps and inform practice. - Partnering with country medical leads to align local plans with global strategy and surface actionable insights that refine global priorities. - Setting direction for scientific communications, internal medical training, medical education (including CME and symposia), Medical Information and health economics/real-world evidence plans in support of global medical objectives. - Contributing to therapeutic training for internal teams; providing medical affairs review for field medical tools, internal commercial training and reimbursement materials to ensure scientific rigor and compliance. - Guiding medical affairs input for congress planning and activities, ensuring impactful scientific presence and consistent messaging. - Building and maintaining strategic partnerships with global centres of excellence and key opinion leaders; creating a cohesive engagement strategy that amplifies scientific dialogue and accelerates adoption of standard methodology. - Planning, developing and leading global advisory boards and integrating insights from regional and local boards to inform strategy and tactics. - Leading through influence across geographies and functions; managing external partners to deliver on time, on budget and to the highest scientific standards. Essential skills and experience include: - A PhD, PharmD or MD level degree or equivalent with 2+ years experience in medical affairs organisation (med info, grant processing, field MSL team, KOL management, scientific communications). - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. - Proven track record to manage different resources and vendor management. - Excellent problem-solving, organisational, and negotiating skills! - Adaptability and agility in a dynamic environment with proven track record to work on teams and independently. - Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated track record and ability to drive results as an effective team member and project leader. - Established ability to work with KOLs and HCPs to innovate and challenge the status quo while implementing Medical Affairs tools to improve patient care and outcomes. - Must demonstrate energy and passion which brings a positive approach to all challenges sense of ethics and responsibility. Travel required up to 25%. The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: - use a computer; - engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; - engage in problem-solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; - collaborate with others; - maintain general availability during standard business hours. Desirable skills and experience include: - Experience leading cross-functional teams. - Experience managing different key collaborators. - Experience in the Pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. Annual base pay for this position ranges from $150,202.00 - $225,303.00. Our positions offer eligibility for various incentives,an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans. ## Skills ### Required - medical affairs - global medical strategy - scientific communications - external education - cross-functional leadership - vendor management - problem-solving - organisational skills - negotiating skills - adaptability - interpersonal skills - project leadership - KOL management - HCP management - Medical Affairs tools --- Source: [Apply at astrazeneca.eightfold.ai](https://astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/563877690205466?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)