Senior Manager, Medical Planning

Description:

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Our commitment to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking bold action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

Our Position:

As Senior Manager, Medical Planning, you will lead operational activities, business planning, manage special projects and drive high priority strategic organizational improvement and effectiveness initiatives from ideation through successful execution. You will be empowered to ensure the delivery of crucial strategic priorities and effective operations of the Scientific Affairs Leadership Team (SALT).

The COS partners closely with the SALT and key collaborators across the organization. As a member of SALT, the individual is expected to be a full contributor to all leadership team discussions and topics, participating in the most relevant meetings and offering synthesized business perspectives relevant to influencing key strategic decisions. This role will ensure execution and pull through of all strategic decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Direct support to the Vice President for the scientific affairs strategic priorities

• Ensure VP has a broad view of critical considerations, and elevate issues as necessary

• Build forward thinking recommendations for crucial decisions to be made by VP

• Supporting the VP in internal and external meetings, including the following:

• Lead and plan effective SALT meeting agenda and follow up on agreed action plans

• Leading the compilation of appropriate briefing materials

• Drive execution and performance of key projects and objectives

• Set strategic direction and principles using regional and global input

• Assess, redesign, and bring new insights to manage critical processes for optimized efficiency and productivity

• Support and build cross-functional relationships to enable leadership success

• Lead the development of the SA annual scorecard, ensuring input from all LT members. Review progress with LT quarterly

• Maintains a high degree of understanding and awareness of new strategic and portfolio management trends and developments