Business Excellence Manager - OBEX

Job Title: Business Excellence Manager

Location: London

Competitive salary and benefits

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to raise the standard of how we plan, engage customers, and launch life-changing oncology medicines to deliver sharper outcomes for patients and the business? With one of the most dynamic pipelines in oncology, we are bringing new science to market at pace. This role accelerates that journey by turning strong practice into repeatable, scalable outcomes across our customer-facing teams.

You will define and embed practical excellence frameworks across Marketing, Medical, Sales, Diagnostics and care transformation initiatives, strengthening segmentation, customer journeys, omnichannel execution and launch readiness. You will coach and challenge teams to improve planning quality and delivery, build the tools and capabilities they need to adopt better ways of working, and translate relevant global and external best practice into effective local action. Imagine seeing your standards show up in every brand plan and launch, and knowing the ripple effect reaches physicians and patients across the country—how would you make that impact tangible?

Accountabilities:

• Excellence Frameworks: Define clear, practical standards and ways of working that elevate planning, customer engagement and execution across customer-facing functions.
• Planning Quality: Review and challenge brand, medical and functional plans to strengthen customer focus, clarity of priorities and delivery discipline.
• Omnichannel and Segmentation: Establish practical best practice for segmentation, customer journeys and omnichannel execution that improves reach, relevance and impact.
• Launch Readiness: Set consistent, measurable launch readiness criteria and enable teams to deliver confident, coordinated launches.
• Best Practice Sharing: Capture, codify and share strong practice across Marketing, Medical, Sales, Diagnostics and care transformation, driving consistency and scalability.
• Capability Building: Identify capability gaps and create targeted interventions that improve how teams plan, engage and execute.
• Tools and Workshops: Design and deliver practical tools, playbooks, workshops and guidance that help teams apply excellence frameworks in day-to-day work.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with Learning and Capability teams to align priorities, avoid duplication and amplify adoption across promotional and non-promotional functions.
• Global-to-Local Adaptation: Bring relevant global, regional and external best practice into the UK context, adapting for local effectiveness and compliance.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor adoption, gather feedback and use evidence to iterate and improve standards, driving measurable maturity gains over time.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Relevant professional experience in marketing, commercial capability, learning and development, commercial excellence or a related commercial discipline
• Significant pharmaceutical or healthcare experience with direct accountability for brand, medical, business or customer engagement strategy.
• Strong experience in marketing, commercial capability, learning and development, commercial excellence or a related commercial discipline
• Good understanding of pharmaceutical marketing, brand strategy, operational planning and commercial execution
• A strong track record of owning plans, launches or customer engagement activity and improving business, customer or patient outcomes.
• Experience designing and leading capability programmes for marketing, sales or other commercial audiences
• Understanding of digital marketing, omnichannel engagement and use of data and technology in commercial roles
• Experience supporting launches, CRM implementation or adoption, and commercial onboarding
• Experience influencing stakeholders and delivering through cross-functional, regional or global matrix teams
• Experience creating and embedding standards, frameworks, tools or better ways of working across a matrix organisation.
• Credible facilitation, communication, coaching, stakeholder management, planning and project management capability
• Able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery and measurable improvement.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience as a Brand Lead/manager, Medical Affairs leader, Business Excellence lead or similar business-facing role.
• Oncology or specialty-care experience.
• Experience across both promotional and non-promotional functions.
• Customer engagement, launch excellence, omnichannel or medical excellence experience.
• Experience adapting Global or Regional frameworks for effective local use.
• Familiarity with CRM, digital engagement and analytics environments.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, science and strategy meet in the same room to unlock bold thinking—unexpected teams collaborate to turn evidence into practice and deliver tangible benefit for people living with cancer. You will work with a deep pipeline, modern data and digital capabilities, and colleagues who share knowledge freely, balancing high ambition with genuine support. We value clarity, kindness and accountability, giving you the scope to experiment, learn and scale what works so that your contributions directly shape how new medicines reach clinicians and patients.

Date Posted

12-Oct-2026

Closing Date

25-Oct-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.