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About the Role
Lead one of our oncology therapy area teams in the UK, combining strategic leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration. You will lead a team of Medical Advisors, ensuring seamless coordination between office-based and clinician-facing medical activities. As a member of the Oncology Medical Leadership Team, you will help shape the direction of our oncology organization and ensure medical affairs delivers meaningful impact for patients and the healthcare system.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of Medical Advisors, ensuring strong coordination between head office medical activities and Field Medical colleagues to deliver a unified medical strategy.
- Set the strategic direction for the therapy area, translating scientific insights and healthcare system needs into impactful medical affairs plans and priorities.
- Drive delivery of annual medical plans, ensuring activities are executed to a high standard, deliver measurable impact, and remain aligned to patient and organisational needs.
- Identify and implement innovative approaches to medical engagement, evidence generation, scientific exchange and partnership working across the oncology community.
- Actively contribute as a member of the Oncology Medical Leadership Team, helping shape organisational priorities, culture, resource allocation and long-term strategy.
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships across Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Clinical Research, Commercial and Corporate Affairs to support products from early pipeline through launch and lifecycle management.
- Develop organisational capability and talent, creating opportunities for coaching, career progression, succession planning and continuous professional growth within the team.
- Ensure compliance, governance and budget accountability, applying the ABPI Code, internal SOPs and sound fiscal management to all activities while maintaining the highest ethical standards.
Requirements
- GMC registered doctor or a GPhC registered pharmacist
- Significant experience within pharmaceutical medical affairs
- Experience leading and developing people and teams
- Experience creating and implementing strategic medical affairs plans
- Strong understanding of the UK healthcare environment, including the NHS and Oncology landscape
- Final Signatory status and strong understanding of the ABPI Code of Practice and practical application within day-to-day medical affairs activities
- Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and levels of an organization
- Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder engagement skills
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results through others
- Oncology experience (desirable)
- Experience supporting product launches and launch readiness activities (desirable)
- Experience managing budgets and resource planning (desirable)
- Experience leading organisational change, capability building or transformation initiatives (desirable)
Skills
- Clinical Outcomes
- Collaborative Leadership
- Leadership Management
- Line Management
- Medical Affairs
- Multidisciplinary Teamwork
- Oncology
- People Leadership
- Resource Planning
- Scientific Communications
- Situational Leadership
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Strategic Leadership
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Regular
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- GMC registered doctor
- GPhC registered pharmacist
About the Company
- We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.