EUCAN Lead Portfolio Director, OBU Medical Affairs

At AstraZeneca we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We do this with the utmost integrity even in the most demanding situations because we are committed to doing the right thing. We put patients first and follow the science to bring life-changing medicines to patients that need them.

We are currently searching for a candidate who can drive project management, strategic planning and excellence in execution of OBU EUCAN Medical Affairsprojects and accountabilities across the entire OBU EUCAN Medical organization. 

The role provides management and leadership to plan, prepare, and execute multiple complex and high profile initiatives. Importantly, will partner throughout the organisation identifying unmet needs, developing strategies to address and oversee solution execution/implementation. 

The role would include project oversight and budget management, change implementation, and cross-functional coordination with multiple teams in and outside of OBU Medical. This role would report directly to the VP & Head of EUCAN Medical Affairs but would partner closely with Strategy, Operations & Innovation Leader for OBU Global Medicaland the EUCAN Portfolio Director team and Regional Medical Leaders. The position will be based in Barcelona, Spain.

The ideal candidate will be expected to work in a highly effective way with other project managers and leaders to implement global and regional strategies at all levels through the interconnected organisation. The ideal candidate can demonstrate their strategic thinking, problem solving skills, ability to work collaboratively and act decisively to support the broader goals of OBU Medical as a whole.Experience in leading complex and high priority work in line with business priorities is a key skill for this role, in addition to being adaptable, collaborative and motivated to find solutions and reach goals.

Accountabilities/responsibilities

Leadership Team:

• Partners with VP EUCAN and EUCAN Portfolio Director team to implement goals, projects, budgets, schedules, and drive performance for the organization, and monitors progress and mitigates risks for delivery of responsible projects.

• Facilitates LT meetings including Oncology EUCAN Country leadership team with the OBU Medical Affairs Heads, providing strategic input into meeting agendas, and manage action items from those meetings.

• Manage, partner with and coordinate multiple stakeholders (Global, Regional & Local), to ensure alignment of cross-Franchise and cross-Functional commitment to strategic objectives and support with initiatives e.g. Evidence generation, Portfolio prioritisation, Launch excellence etc.

• Responsible for pull-through and implementation of key functional team deliverables such as scorecards, value metrics, department forums, walking decks, leadership presentations, etc.

• Responsible for oversight of and communicating status of responsible project budget, phasing and prioritization across the business planning cycle as well as rollup into Long Range Plans.

Project Management Team

• Leadership ofproject managers responsible for supporting EUCAN Medical teams through mentorship and EUCAN-wide strategy, creating a strong team by building trust.

• Partners closely with Global Project Management Office to drive operational efficiency and excellence, streamline processes and methodologies, and identify continuous improvement and simplification, to optimise bi-directional Global-Region-Local communication and implementation.

Culture

• Encourage a vibrant, entrepreneurial and externally facing team focused on the delivery of successful projects and programs that support courageous leadership, innovation and collaboration.

• Collaborate strongly with other Project Leaders to embed standard methodology.

• Flexible attitude and dedication to efficient productivity.

Preferred Requirements:

• Graduate level degree in sciences or business degree

• Six Sigma Medical/Process Excellence and/or Project Management/PMP/FPX certification is a plus but not required

• Depth of understanding of medical, scientific and/or commercial pharmaceutical marketplace of Oncology

• Consulting experience

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Skilled in organisational change including process development and implementation, people development, organizational effectiveness, and communication

• Able to deliver high quality work outputs despite ambiguity or a constantly evolving environment

• Delivery focus with an ability to be responsible for and manage multiple project deliverables in very short timelines

• Interpersonal skills with an ability to display a variety of leadership styles dependent upon the situation

• Evidence of the ability to pull together diverse teams over whom they have no line management responsibility in a matrix environment (i.e. Ability to influence and drive for results)

• Demonstrated knowledge and very wide understanding of global business context

• An excellent communicator; evidence of strong independence and innovative seeker of strategic solutions; forward looking

• Strong leadership attributes to clarify strategic direction, generate commitment, balance short and long-term needs, resolve differences constructively, and reinforce expectations

• People management of indication level project managers to drive synergies and efficiencies across the portfolio

Why AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial -finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next! 

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

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