Medical NPP(New Product Planning) Lead, Biopharmaceutical

Job Description

Role description

• Medical/Scientific expertise: Deep knowledge in relevant disease areas; ability to interpret clinical data and translate into strategy.
• Clinical development acumen: Experience with protocol design/review, feasibility, site selection, and trial operations.
• RWD/RWE proficiency: Capability to design RWE strategies, assess data sources, and derive insights supporting registration and access.
• Cross‑functional leadership: Proven skill in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders (Clinical Ops, Regulatory, Market Access, Commercial).
• External stakeholder management: Strong engagement with KEEs, investigators, associations, and diagnostic/digital partners.
• Strategic commercialization: Insight into early market shaping, access/reimbursement evidence needs, and launch readiness planning.
• Analytical and insight generation: Ability to synthesize treatment landscape, patient journey, and competitive intelligence into actionable recommendations.
• Communication and presentation: Excellent scientific communication, training delivery, and presentation skills in English.
• Compliance orientation: Strong understanding of codes, governance, and confidentiality; fostering a culture of openness and compliance.
• Adaptability and foresight: Anticipates future trends and unmet needs; navigates evolving regulatory and technical environments.

Typical Accountabilities

• New asset strategy leadership: Anticipate opportunities and risks for NMEs/LEs and define medical and clinical strategies through high‑level Phase 3 readout.
• MC3 participation and alignment: Represent the Marketing Company in consultation and collaboration forums; integrate cross‑functional insights into actionable plans.
• Clinical development support: Provide medical input to protocol design/review, feasibility, and site selection; deliver scientific presentations and site visits during trial conduct.
• Treatment landscape and competitive insights: Continuously assess local clinical practice, patient journey, competitor activities, and biomarker prevalence to inform strategy.
• RWD/RWE strategy and generation: Align data requirements for registration, access, and reimbursement with Regulatory, Market Access, and Commercial; generate RWD via databases and collaborations with medical experts, associations, and analytics partners.
• External collaboration: Build and maintain relationships with KEEs, investigators, scientific societies, and digital partners; incorporate external advice into strategies.
• Commercialization partnership: Co‑create early market shaping and diagnostic strategies; contribute to launch readiness planning.
• Internal training: Deliver effective medical/clinical training on basic science, disease knowledge, product profile, and clinical data to internal stakeholders.
• Trend sensing: Anticipate future marketplace trends and evolving needs; identify early opportunities for transforming care.
• Investigator and site selection support: Help select quality investigators and sites to optimize study delivery and commercial value.
• Governance and compliance: Ensure adherence to AZ Code of Conduct, policies, audit requirements, and confidentiality; promptly address and report potential non‑compliance.
• Culture contribution: Align with AZ values and vision; foster openness and scientific leadership across teams.

Skills

• Strategic leadership: Ability to set medical strategy for NMEs/LEs, prioritize evidence needs, and drive cross‑functional alignment to execution.
• Clinical development expertise: Proficiency in protocol review/design, feasibility assessment, and site/investigator selection; understanding of GCP and trial operations.
• RWD/RWE proficiency: Designing local RWE strategies, assessing data sources, interpreting observational analyses, and translating insights for registration/access.
• Evidence and access acumen: Knowledge of regulatory, HTA, and payer evidence requirements; ability to shape value narratives and data packages.
• Scientific analytics: Skill in synthesizing treatment landscape, patient journey, biomarker epidemiology, and competitive intelligence into recommendations.
• External stakeholder management: Building relationships with KEEs, investigators, scientific societies, and digital diagnostics/therapeutics partners; effective advisory engagement.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Influence and coordination across Clinical Ops, Regulatory, Market Access, Commercial, and Medical Affairs; MC3 participation.
• Communication and presentation: Clear scientific writing, impactful presentations, and training delivery in English; ability to tailor messages to diverse audiences.
• Compliance and governance orientation: Strong grasp of codes, policies, audit expectations, and confidentiality; role‑modeling compliant behaviors.
• Market shaping and launch readiness: Experience crafting early diagnostic/medical strategies and contributing to launch planning.
• Data‑driven decision making: Comfort with statistical outputs from clinical and real‑world studies; translating data into actions.
• Adaptability and foresight: Sensing trends, anticipating risks, and adjusting plans in dynamic clinical and regulatory environments.

Qualifications

• Education: Medical doctor (MD) required. Advanced specialization is desirable; PharmD or PhD may be considered highly relevant experience.
• Language: Fluent English Communication is preferred
• Certifications: Board certification or specialty qualification in a relevant therapeutic area is desirable; GCP training/certification required
• Work Experience: Pharma experience more than 3-4 years is preferred; 7+ years in clinical practice, medical affairs, and/or clinical operations is desirable, including experience shaping launch strategies and market shaping initiatives.
• Competencies: Strategic thinking and decision‑making, Collaboration and influence, Scientific rigor and curiosity, Execution excellence, Ethics and compliance, Communication and storytelling, Problem solving and adaptability

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