Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Brand Lead: Lung Tumour portfolio, AstraZeneca India
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization 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.
Role Summary
- The Brand Lead, Lung Tumor Portfolio will own the end-to-end strategy, performance, and lifecycle management of one or more brands/indications within the lung cancer franchise.
- This leader will define the brand vision, drive cross-functional execution, and deliver sustainable growth across indications and lines of therapy, ensuring alignment with clinical evidence, access strategies, and market dynamics.
Key Responsibilities
Brand Strategy and Planning: Develop and refine the brand vision, positioning, and value proposition across segments (e.g. IO/non-AGA space). Lead annual brand plans, long-range forecasts, and scenario planning.
Launch Excellence: Orchestrate launch readiness for new indications, line extensions, and lifecycle initiatives. Define go-to-market plans, segmentation, targeting, and omnichannel activation.
Customer Engagement and Omnichannel: Design data-driven customer journeys for oncologists, pathologists, nurses, pharmacists, and patient groups. Optimize channel mix across field, digital, medical, and access touchpoints.
Evidence and Insights: Translate clinical data, RWE, and competitive intelligence into clear value narratives and messaging. Partner with Medical Affairs to integrate scientific platforms and publication plans.
Access and Pricing: Collaborate with Market Access to shape value propositions, pricing strategy, and access programs (e.g., CNP, copay support, patient assistance) to expand patient penetration.
Performance Management: Own brand KPIs (e.g., patient penetration, share, adoption curves, persistency, value/volume share, omnichannel ROI). Run performance deep-dives and steer corrective actions.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead matrix teams across Commercial, Medical, Access, Regulatory, Legal, Supply, Finance, and Analytics. Drive aligned decision-making and timely execution.
Lifecycle Management: Plan indications sequencing, label expansion, differentiation vs. new combinations, and defense against generics/biosimilars. Manage messaging refreshes and promotional compliance.
Competitive Strategy: Monitor evolving standards of care, companion diagnostics, and new entrants. Develop counter-detail aids, objection handling, and scenario contingencies.
Field Enablement: Partner with Sales Leadership to deliver training, tools, and call plans; refine targeting and objection handling; support account and integrated delivery networks (IDNs).
Budget and Resource Ownership: Manage brand budgets, agency partners, and investment allocation across tactics to maximize impact and ROI.
Governance and Compliance: Ensure promotional materials and activities meet regulatory, medical, and legal requirements. Uphold ethical standards and patient-centricity.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in marketing preferred, health economics, or related field preferred.
Experience:
8+ years in pharmaceutical/biotech marketing, commercial strategy, or product management, with 3+ years in oncology; lung cancer experience strongly preferred.
Proven track record in launch excellence and lifecycle management, ideally across multiple indications.
Experience partnering with Medical Affairs, Market Access, HEOR, and Field Teams within a matrix organization.
Skills:
- Strategic thinking and analytical rigor: Comfortable with market models, patient flow, and forecasting.
- Clinical fluency: Ability to translate complex evidence into compelling value stories.
- Omnichannel and digital: Skilled in segmentation, personalization, and measurement frameworks.
- Cross-functional leadership: Strong stakeholder management and influence without authority.
- Communication: Clear, persuasive storytelling and executive-ready presentations.
- Execution excellence: Organized, decisive, and outcomes oriented.
Success Metrics
Patient impact: Growth in eligible patient penetration and persistency.
Market performance: Share gains, value/volume share stability, and adoption versus plan.
Launch outcomes: On-time, on-budget launches with target uptake curves.
Omnichannel effectiveness: Engagement, conversion, and ROI improvements.
Access progress: Coverage, formulary wins, and removal of barriers to treatment.
Travel and Location
Location: Mumbai- hybrid working.
Travel: Approximately 20–30% for field visits, congresses and cross-functional meetings.
About the Team
Join a mission-driven oncology team committed to improving outcomes for people with lung cancer. We collaborate across science, access, and innovation to bring transformative therapies to patients faster and more equitably.
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.
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So, what’s next?
- Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
- Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.
Where can I find out more?
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Date Posted
10-Dec-2025Closing Date
18-Dec-2025AstraZeneca 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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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