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<p>HRBP KSA Associate Director ABOUT ASTRAZENECA AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation 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. Join a high-performing team, empowered to cut through the noise and drive real change. Our agility and pace, coupled with scientific focus, powers us to spot opportunities in the market that keep us moving forward and into new spaces. SITE DESCRIPTION AstraZeneca is experiencing a significant transformation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, driven by a commitment to advancing healthcare, innovation, and sustainable growth. Building on our global legacy, AZ KSA is rapidly evolving its operations to better serve patients, collaborate with healthcare stakeholders, and contribute to the ambitious goals outlined in the Saudi Vision 2030. We are investing in talent, digital solutions, and new ways of working; all designed to enhance our impact on patient outcomes and reinforce our leadership in therapeutic areas. This dynamic environment calls for visionary, agile professionals who thrive in change and are motivated to help shape the future of healthcare in KSA. ROLE SUMMARY Responsible for aligning HR strategy and activities with the business direction, objective, and requirements to enable the Company to achieve its full potential.</p> <p><b><br></b></p><p><b>What you ll do</b></p> <ul> <li>Acts as a trusted business partner to senior line management on all people-related matters to ensure a deep understanding of the business strategy and requirements to design and implement HR strategies and practices that support robust business growth; reinforce a culture of a performance-driven organization, meritocracy, and diversity while complying with the Company HR policies and processes</li> <li>Consults, coaches, supports, and challenges managers in the application of HR policies and practices; provides advice and guidance on complex HR issues to minimize risk</li> <li>Conducts regular assessments of HR programs to identify areas of improvement and implement changes as necessary</li> <li>Ensures compliance with all internal HR policies and labor laws and regulations of their respective markets when advising on employee-related matters</li> <li>Drives and supports the development and delivery of cultural change plans and interventions</li> <li>Co-build a talent roadmap together with the management and the Talent team to ensure a healthy talent pipeline</li> <li>Manages the Manpower Planning exercise in collaboration with the different stakeholder</li> <li>Plays an advisory role in creating and managing an efficient and future-fit workforce.</li> <li>Supports and facilitates the design and implementation of business structure reorganizations to improve efficiencies</li> <li>Works very closely with HR CoEs to ensure the business strategy and needs are clearly cascaded and integrated into all HR programs and interventions</li> <li>Manages employee relations issues in collaboration with related cross-functional teams to ensure fair and equal treatment to all employees in line with the Company policies, procedures, and Code of Ethics</li> <li>Focuses on measuring employee engagement through different tools, advises management on the areas of development, and identifies and drives improvement action plans in collaboration with the management to ensure the Company achieves its being a Great Place to Work objective</li> <li>Responsible for managing projects in multi-disciplinary projects, covering several areas, including recruitment, compensation and benefits, learning &amp; development, performance management, people management, employee relations, and change management</li> </ul> <p>Only applications in KSA will be considered.</p> <p><br></p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><h2>Essential for the role</h2> <p>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.</p> <h3>Essential Capabilities:</h3> <ul> <li>Minimum one year of experience in the current role at AZ KSA with strong understanding of AZ ways of working, Code of Ethics, and governance.</li> <li>Bachelor s Degree in a relevant domain</li> <li>Previous HR Business Partnering experience with solid examples of unlocking the business potential through HR</li> <li>Strong business acumen</li> <li>Ability to build and maintain relationships in a matrix environment</li> <li>Ability to drive business transformation and cultural change</li> <li>Outstanding stakeholder management skills</li> <li>Experience working in a matrix organization</li> <li>Solid influencing skills</li> <li>Excellent Communication skills</li> <li>Previous people management experience</li> </ul> <h3>Desirable Capabilities:</h3> <ul> <li>HR Degree or MBA in Human Resources</li> </ul>

<p>ROLE SUMMARY Is responsible for generating clinical demand for Oncology brands with key accounts, pro-actively identifying business opportunities, presenting value propositions aligned to stakeholder needs and objectives, and recommending solutions to drive and develop business. Develop strategic and mutually beneficial relationships with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Decision Making Unit (DMU), and potentially other stakeholders, based on a deep scientific understanding of the issues in order to identify the best opportunities for any part of AZ's Oncology portfolio to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. Allocates own time for 90% - be in field; 10% office-based. What you ll do Develop account strategy and plans: Identify opportunities and strategies to improve positioning of AZ's Oncology products at a local level Work with Sales Manager to develop a local strategy and business plan to meet targets and further improve positioning of AZ's Oncology products at a local level Create deep stakeholder relationships: Engage Oncology HCPs in dialogue about approved indications, product efficacy / safety profiles and treatment protocols to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients Establish and maintain ongoing, long term collaborative relationships with stakeholders Share stakeholder insight and information within AZ to strengthen relevant activities, e.g., product development, marketing, sales efforts Build capability and knowledge in healthcare eco-system: Build knowledge and understanding about AZ's overall Oncology value proposition, and product's labeled indications and efficacy data among all relevant stakeholders in the MDT and DMU Utilize different communication approaches, techniques and channels to help build knowledge in the MDT and DMU, including Conduct science-based discussions with the HCP as per the approved indications of AZ's products Arrange multidisciplinary workshops for physicians and other healthcare professionals Arrange and coordinate effective speaker programmes with physician advocates and KOLs Actively support Oncology nurses on relevant trainings, e.g., chemotherapy, testing solutions Deliver on plans and achieve sales goals on budget Drive sales performance and ensure sales forecasts meet or exceed expectations while managing assigned budgets Successfully promote the benefits of AZ's Oncology brands, using fair balance messages and the appropriate mix of promotional tools Ensure AZ's products are optimally utilised in line with national/local guidelines and the product license Corporate responsibility: Successfully complete all training requirements, including product examinations Comply with all external regulations and internal policies Maintains highest ethical standards and work in a spirit of AstraZeneca Code of Ethics, following rules &amp; norms set by corporate policies Ensures that all conducted activities are done in accordance with local legislation and corporate standards. Timely reports (as per respective procedures): health/environment/wellbeing related accidents; adverse events that you became aware about; change in status of your Conflict of Interest. Only Applications in KSA will be considered. Essential for the role 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. Essential Capabilities: Saudi National. Minimum 2 years of sales experience with a sound knowledge of account management. Speciality and Institutional Business experience. Experience in either in Haematology, Cell Therapeutics or Oncology Therapy areas is a plus. Track record of engaging key stakeholders in complex clinical environments, e.g., mid and senior level healthcare professionals, key accounts and the medical community Proven track record in influencing the stakeholder decision-making process in an ecosystem with multiple influential players / decision makers, with proven track record of creating value in complex DMU Proven demonstration of successful working in complex cross functional teams Patient centricity Customer value proposition Engaging with the Oncology ecosystem Cross functional engagement Business Acumen Impact and Influence Decision making and problem solving 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.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Essential Capabilities: Saudi National. Minimum 2 years of sales experience with a sound knowledge of account management. Speciality and Institutional Business experience. Experience in either in Haematology, Cell Therapeutics or Oncology Therapy areas is a plus. Track record of engaging key stakeholders in complex clinical environments, e.g., mid and senior level healthcare professionals, key accounts and the medical community Proven track record in influencing the stakeholder decision-making process in an ecosystem with multiple influential players / decision makers, with proven track record of creating value in complex DMU Proven demonstration of successful working in complex cross functional teams Patient centricity Customer value proposition Engaging with the Oncology ecosystem Cross functional engagement Business Acumen Impact and Influence Decision making and problem solving</p>

<p><br></p><p>ROLE SUMMARY The Regulatory Affairs Lead is responsible for driving regulatory strategies and managing submissions across the product lifecycle to ensure compliance with local and global requirements. The role provides expert advice on processes and documentation, proactively manages regulatory risks, and partners with health authorities and internal stakeholders to enable timely patient access to innovative medicines. The role reports to the Regulatory Affairs &amp; Pricing Director and supports the RA agenda through the established RA governance.</p><p>What you ll do</p><p>Regulatory Strategy &amp; Submissions</p><ul><li>Lead submission management and cross-functional teams for complex global regulatory applications, ensuring compliance with AstraZeneca s submission-ready standards.</li><li>Provide regulatory expertise and strategic input to product and project teams, anticipating Health Authority requirements and guiding submissions-related activities.</li><li>Identify potential regulatory risks to global and regional operational plans, proposing mitigation strategies.</li><li>Implement and oversee strategies that improve the quality, efficiency, and timeliness of submissions.</li><li>Manage processes related to product licenses, registrations, and post-marketing requirements, including labeling, safety reporting, inspections, and audits.</li><li>Act as the primary regulatory contact with key authorities (e.g., SFDA, GHC) and ensure timely updates to global systems on regulatory guidelines, decrees, and communications.</li></ul><p>Business Partnering &amp; Country RA Agenda</p><ul><li>Partner with Business Units and relevant internal stakeholders to support the country regulatory agenda, under the leadership of the Regulatory Affairs &amp; Pricing Director.</li><li>Conduct regular meetings with local agents regulatory teams to align on outstanding activities and ensure smooth execution.</li><li>Foster alignment across therapy area RA managers, local agents, and global stakeholders on regulatory priorities.</li><li>Represent AstraZeneca s regulatory interests in official engagements with authorities and industry forums.</li></ul><p>Leadership &amp; People Development</p><ul><li>Manage and develop a small team of regulatory professionals (1 2 direct reports), setting clear objectives, coaching, and providing growth opportunities.</li><li>Promote a culture of collaboration, creativity, and courageous leadership across teams.</li><li>Lead or participate in critical projects, ensuring regulatory business needs are integrated into AZ s systems, processes, and standards.</li></ul><p>External Engagement &amp; Business Awareness</p><ul><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with Regulatory Health Authorities, industry representatives, and key external partners.</li><li>Monitor regulatory, policy, and industry dynamics, proactively advising internal stakeholders on potential impacts.</li><li>Support business development activities, including proposals, reports, costing, and budgets, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.</li></ul><p>Governance &amp; Compliance</p><ul><li>Ensure all regulatory activities adhere to AstraZeneca s Code of Ethics, corporate policies, and local legislation.</li><li>Timely reporting of adverse events, compliance risks, conflicts of interest, and health/environment-related incidents.</li><li>Provide regulatory input for audits, inspections, recalls, and related communications to minimize compliance risks.</li></ul><p>Only applications in KSA will be considered.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>Saudi National</li><li>Higher education in pharmaceuticals, medicine, or biotechnology.</li><li>Minimum 9 years experience in regulatory affairs (drug development, product approval/launch, line extension, license maintenance, or Health Authority experience), including at least 5 years in a multinational environment with proven contributions.</li><li>Strong knowledge of local and international regulatory standards, requirements, and industry practices.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage pivotal projects and resource requirements.</li><li>Excellent collaboration and teamworking skills across global functions.</li><li>Proven people management capabilities.</li><li>Strong business acumen, including financial and strategic awareness.</li></ul>

<p><br></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>What you ll do</b></p><ul><li>Engages HCPs in dialogue to effectively promote the knowledge about rare disease medicines value proposition, benefits of approved indications, product efficacy/safety profiles and treatment protocols to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients, using science-driven balanced messages and the appropriate mix of tools and channels both face-to-face and digital.</li><li>Pro-actively identifies new patient/patients on therapy targets</li><li>Consistently achieve or exceed sales objectives in the assigned region including accurate and timely tracking and reporting of sales activities</li><li>Demonstrates strong in-depth clinical, technical, and scientific knowledge in relevant disease states and product mechanisms of action</li><li>To improve the identification and diagnosis of patients and manage the market development objectives, strategies, tactics, and action plans within the stated territory.</li><li>Ensure achievement of the following three key imperatives and performance measures: Increase disease awareness with key target groups</li><li>To work with healthcare professionals to identify and test high risk patients for the relevant diseases</li><li>Establish a key opinion leader (KOL) network</li><li>Identify and develop KOLs within the territory</li><li>Liaise with cross-functional medical, marketing, market access and diagnostic teams to develop long-term relationships and advocacy with KOLs, HCP accounts and other appropriate external stakeholders</li><li>Organizes workshops and other educational events to facilitate knowledge sharing among relevant HCPs.</li><li>Works with Sales Manager and/or Franchise Manager to develop and implement a strategy and actions to meet promotional objectives</li><li>Manages allocated budge</li><li>Share s insights and information to strengthen brand positioning, promotional efforts, access to treatment etc.</li><li>Ensures rare disease products are optimally utilized in line with national/local guidelines and the product license</li><li>Demonstrate business ethics and ensure active respect of values, business ethics, local laws, policies, and Marketing procedures.</li><li>Ensure all activities and responsibilities are carried out in compliance with the high standards of ethics and integrity required by the Code of Conduct, supporting Policies and Standards and Company Values to protect and enhance long term performance and reputation</li><li>Other duties within the position s scope, as assigned by Line Manager</li><li>Only Candidates who are based in KSA will be considered.</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>University degree, with a preference to Medical Sciences, Pharmacy.</li><li>Experience in neurology field preferably in rare disease.</li><li>Minimum 2 years of experience of the hospital business: preferably in niche markets/orphan drugs.</li><li>Proven track record for delivering consistent, top-tier sales results.</li><li>Sales experience in rare diseases preferred.</li><li>Experience in project management.</li><li>Passion for science and commitment to make a positive personal impact.</li><li>Curiousness and learning agility.</li><li>Strong influencing skills to engage key stakeholders in complex clinical environments, e.g., mid, and senior-level specialty care professionals, key accounts in the medical community.</li><li>Proactive and solution oriented.</li><li>Strong analytical skills.</li><li>Collaborative and inclusive.</li><li>High ethical standards.</li><li>Experience working with an overall rare disease portfolio.</li></ul>

<p><br></p><p><b>What you ll do</b></p><ul><li>Engages HCPs in dialogue to effectively promote the knowledge about rare disease medicines value proposition, benefits of approved indications, product efficacy/safety profiles and treatment protocols to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients, using science-driven balanced messages and the appropriate mix of tools and channels both face-to-face and digital.</li><li>Pro-actively identifies new patient/patients on therapy targets</li><li>Consistently achieve or exceed sales objectives in the assigned region including accurate and timely tracking and reporting of sales activities</li><li>Demonstrates strong in-depth clinical, technical, and scientific knowledge in relevant disease states and product mechanisms of action</li><li>To improve the identification and diagnosis of patients and manage the market development objectives, strategies, tactics, and action plans within the stated territory.</li><li>Ensure achievement of the following three key imperatives and performance measures: Increase disease awareness with key target groups</li><li>To work with healthcare professionals to identify and test high risk patients for the relevant diseases</li><li>Establish a key opinion leader (KOL) network</li><li>Identify and develop KOLs within the territory</li><li>Liaise with cross-functional medical, marketing, market access and diagnostic teams to develop long-term relationships and advocacy with KOLs, HCP accounts and other appropriate external stakeholders</li><li>Organizes workshops and other educational events to facilitate knowledge sharing among relevant HCPs.</li><li>Works with Sales Manager and/or Franchise Manager to develop and implement a strategy and actions to meet promotional objectives</li><li>Manages allocated budge</li><li>Share s insights and information to strengthen brand positioning, promotional efforts, access to treatment etc.</li><li>Ensures rare disease products are optimally utilized in line with national/local guidelines and the product license</li><li>Demonstrate business ethics and ensure active respect of values, business ethics, local laws, policies, and Marketing procedures.</li><li>Ensure all activities and responsibilities are carried out in compliance with the high standards of ethics and integrity required by the Code of Conduct, supporting Policies and Standards and Company Values to protect and enhance long term performance and reputation</li><li>Other duties within the position s scope, as assigned by Line Manager</li></ul><p>Only Candidates who are based in KSA will be considered.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>University degree, with a preference to Medical Sciences, Pharmacy.</li><li>Experience in neurology field preferably in rare disease.</li><li>Minimum 2 years of experience of the hospital business: preferably in niche markets/orphan drugs.</li><li>Proven track record for delivering consistent, top-tier sales results.</li><li>Sales experience in rare diseases preferred.</li><li>Experience in project management.</li><li>Passion for science and commitment to make a positive personal impact.</li><li>Curiousness and learning agility.</li><li>Strong influencing skills to engage key stakeholders in complex clinical environments, e.g., mid, and senior-level specialty care professionals, key accounts in the medical community.</li><li>Proactive and solution oriented.</li><li>Strong analytical skills.</li><li>Collaborative and inclusive.</li><li>High ethical standards.</li><li>Experience working with an overall rare disease portfolio.</li></ul>

<p><br></p><p>ROLE SUMMARY AstraZeneca is accelerating the expansion of our geographical footprint in rare diseases following the acquisition of Alexion in 2021. Rare disease is a high-growth therapy area with rapid innovation and significant unmet medical need. Over 7,000 rare diseases are known today yet less than 1% of them have an approved treatment. As we build our position as a Rare Disease leader, we seek a Rare Disease Medical Science Liaison to join our Medical Affairs team in Jeddah, Western Region, KSA. As a Medical Science Liaison Rare Disease you'll play a pivotal role in channelling our scientific capabilities to bring an important new therapy in a rare disease setting into clinical practice, making a positive impact on patients' lives. The Medical Science Liaison Rare Disease is a professional with scientific, clinical and therapeutic area expertise responsible for providing medical and scientific support to healthcare professionals aligned to the use of medicines in our combined rare disease portfolio. You will report into the Medical Manager Rare Disease. In this role you will be expected to identify and cultivate relationships with HCPs working in the field including physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses and pharmacists as well as other key strategic partners, such as patient advocacy groups. You will conduct educational programs on disease state and the appropriate use of our medicines, consistent with Medical Affairs plans and objectives. You will also respond to customer inquiries to ensure focused clinical and scientific information that supports the appropriate use of these medicines. Additionally you will deliver clinical and scientific information to support appropriate use of the medicine in the relevant therapy area in a patient focused manner; maintain expertise in disease state management, keep abreast of emerging therapies and the therapeutic landscape; gather customer insights regarding the use of the medicine in the wider therapeutic landscape to help inform medical and commercial strategies while adhering to internal standards, processes and complying with regulatory and compliance requirements.</p><p>What you ll do</p><ul><li>Build, enhance, maintain the engagement with scientific leaders (KEEs)</li><li>Provide AZ with an understanding of the local medical community, clinical practice trends, HCP insight and real or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge and medical treatment</li><li>Share emerging data with HCPs, discussing all aspects of the data in a scientific, objective, and balanced way.</li><li>Responsible for identifying and developing scientifically based relationships with KEEs in Saudi Arabia market.</li><li>Work with HCPs as partners in scientific activities that help advance disease understanding and are consistent with Medical Affairs strategy &amp; objectives, such as:</li><li>Interact in the field with the medical community in the context of various medical projects such as clinical trials, Non-Interventional Studies, Investigator Sponsored Studies (ISSs), scientific exchange.</li><li>Identify potential speakers and train speakers as appropriate for local events</li><li>Provide recommendations for advisory board/Round Table discussion participants and serve as faculty/facilitators for advisory board meetings.</li><li>Present scientific data to HCPs in both group (Medically led meetings) and one on one setting.</li><li>Facilitate continuing medical education events for HCPs.</li><li>Develop or initiate scientific programs to explore unmet medical needs in priority disease area(s) through obtaining and sharing valuable insights</li><li>Provide actionable insights that enhance the value and appropriate use of AZ products and disease management to internal stakeholders</li><li>Engage in strategic planning meetings with payer customers or hospital decision makers where the discussion of scientific topics is clearly separated from discussion of promotional and/or other business topics.</li><li>Demonstrate expertise and knowledge of AZ products, emerging therapies, competitors, patient and treatment trends, clinical trials, and scientific activities within the Disease Area and continuously updates this expertise and knowledge based on training direction and approved resources provided.</li><li>Support the Medical Manager and Marketing Team in development of non-promotional and promotional materials/programs.</li><li>Act as scientific expert in priority disease area for internal stakeholders</li><li>Continuously acquire and update necessary scientific knowledge on therapeutic area and relevant compounds.</li><li>Provide the AZ internal stakeholders with an understanding of the local medical community, clinical practice, trends and real or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge and medical treatment, competitor information</li><li>Provide scientific support at AZ sponsored educational events</li><li>Gather, monitor, and share competitor knowledge that may affect company strategies</li><li>Planning and executing regional medical activities during the product launch processes.</li><li>Medical Background Training</li><li>Serve as a medical resource for the sales representatives and accurately answer any medical question they may have to help them utilize their approved materials and to help them understand therapeutic area.</li><li>Participate/develop/conduct therapeutic area and product trainings and periodic scientific updates to the internal customers</li><li><br></li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in medicine, Pharmacy, Pharmacology.</li><li>Experience in rare disease therapeutic area</li><li>3 or more years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry or equivalent</li><li>Demonstrated expertise in synthesizing scientific information and communicating it effectively at peer level with HCPs.</li><li>Excellent ability to learn and capacity for scientific concepts and knowledge.</li><li>Experience in Neurology s rare diseases and/or critical care specialties are highly regarded.</li><li>Direct patient care experience or equivalent experience in the pharmaceutical industry</li><li>Strong presentation skills - effectively communicating medical data/concepts</li><li>Excellent computer skills (Excel, Word, Power Point, etc.)</li><li>Excellent project management ability</li><li>Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to work independently</li></ul>

<p><br></p><p><strong>ROLE SUMMARY</strong> The Policy Shaping Associate Director is responsible for shaping, executing, and advancing AstraZeneca s policy and advocacy strategy in support of the business unit s portfolio and objectives. Reporting to the KSA Corporate Affairs Director, this role focuses on analyzing and influencing the external policy environment, identifying opportunities and risks, and guiding the organization s engagement with critical stakeholders. The position works cross-functionally with commercial, medical, regulatory, and government affairs colleagues to support patient access, drive business priorities, and ensure alignment with AstraZeneca s mission and values.</p><p><strong>What you ll do</strong></p><ul><li>Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the policy landscape affecting AstraZeneca s disease products, anticipating emerging trends and regulatory changes.</li><li>Monitor relevant legislation, regulations, and advocacy activities to ensure compliance and proactively address potential risks to the business unit s interests.</li><li>Lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy and advocacy projects that advance therapeutic access, reimbursement, and innovation for the respective therapy area(s).</li><li>Assess and grow internal policy shaping capabilities, with a particular focus on ensuring alignment between national priorities and our therapy area-specific objectives.</li><li>Ensuring KSA policy strategies are aligned with AstraZeneca s global policy framework and contribute to broader corporate affairs strategy and must wins.</li><li>Build and sustain relationships with key external stakeholders, including policymakers, senior government officials, patient advocacy groups, medical societies, NGOs, and industry associations.</li><li>Serve as a strategic advisor to cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between policy priorities and business goals.</li><li>Act as a subject matter expert for policy-related input into regulatory submissions, market access, and lifecycle management.</li><li>Develop impactful policy position statements, white papers, briefings, and other communication materials for internal and external audiences.</li><li>Track and report key policy and advocacy outcomes, supporting continuous improvement in strategy and execution.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree; Master's preferred.</li><li>5-7 years of experience in healthcare policy.</li><li>Policy analysis and stakeholder engagement experience.</li><li>Understanding of regulatory and reimbursement environment.</li><li>Strong analytical and communication skills.</li><li>Ability to manage multiple priorities.</li><li>Collaborative mindset.</li></ul>

<p>Inhaled Medical Lead - BioPharma Business Unit</p><p>Our continuous mission is to transform the lives of people living with Chronic non communicable disease, through the development and delivery of innovative medicine, as well as supportive technologies and healthcare services. In the Saudi Arabia we are building up a dedicated AZ BioPharma Business Unit (AZ BBU) to support the Millions of patients suffering from conditions in therapy areas like Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolisom. As we continue to strenghthen our leadship position and acelerate our new pipeline launching, we seek a Inhaled Portfolio (Asthma and COPD) Lead to join our Medical Affairs team in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Inhaled Portfolio Medical Lead reports to the KSA BBU Medical Director and member of the KSA BBU Medical Affairs Leadership team. The Medical Lead will provide medical affairs therapeutic area leadership to deploy and adapt the AZ Global International Asthma and COPD Medical Affairs strategy, and will lead in future a team of medical affairs professionals (MSLs and Medical Advisors) and oversees execution of medical activities.</p><p>What you ll do</p><ul><li>Providing strategic guidance to building TA medical organisation, creating the TA medical vision and ambition aligned with AZ KSA Vision 2030, working closely with the Medical Director.</li><li>Building and providing leadership to a high-performing KSA BBU medical team (including field medical) with demonstrated value and impact, nurture culture of mentoring and coaching of team members and integrate seamlessly work of medical team with BBU cross-functional brand teams efforts.</li><li>Leadership to building of AZ s External TA leadership, advocacy and establishing enduring partnerships and collaborations with key medical institutions, clinics and research centres and thought leader networks across KSA.</li><li>Responsible for all Inhaled TA medical operational and medical compliance processes are in place and driving process development and integration with the KSA AZ applicable policies and procedures.</li><li>The BBU Medical Lead is accountable for the medical team and their activities are conducted in full compliance with all applicable governing local laws and regulations and in compliance with all AZ applicable global and KSA policies, SOPs and guidance.</li><li>Driving patient centric approach to all activities: developing collaborations with Patient Association Groups (PAGs), elevating the awareness/profile of the designated disease area, partnering with HCP s and PAGs on patient identification initiatives that can be locally adapted.</li><li>Providing subject matter and medical expertise in areas such as presentation review, abstracts &amp; publications, advisory boards, continuous medical education activities.</li><li>Oversight and development of evidence generation strategy and concepts based on medical and payer and value evidence needs( implementation of registries , cohorts, or clinical trials and other studies)</li><li>Cross-functional support for development and execution of brand plans.</li><li>Other Accountabilities</li><li>Scientific Information Management and Dissemination and managing relationships with key stakeholders</li><li>Leadership to identifying and partnering with national, regional/local Key External Experts (KEEs) and partner with advocacy groups and PAGs.</li><li>Ensuring the CF team is up to date in respective therapeutic areas and products knowledge (including competitors).</li><li>Regular meetings with Key External Experts and Influence groups to build partnership, share data, request advice (advisory boards ), and provide support including publications, slide sets and others.</li><li>Ensure setting up systems for timely response to unsolicited requests for information about unapproved AZ BBU products or unapproved uses of approved products, presenting such information in an objective, well balanced, substantiated manner that is scientific in tone and content, free of promotional messages, truthful, and is not misleading.</li><li>Ensure fulfilment of medical information requests and oversee relevant processes</li><li>Appropriately share data with HCPs discussing all aspects of the data in a scientific, objective, and balanced way.</li><li>Facilitate continuous medical education events for HCPs.</li><li>Medical Value Access</li><li>Representing Medical in Value teams, contributing to business planning and the Market Access strategy by providing strategic medical input, Pharmacoeconomics/health outcomes input and customer insight.</li><li>Work with key internal and external stakeholders to identify optimal access pathways to the AZ BBU product(s)</li><li>Responsible for providing fair-balanced, objective, scientific/clinical information to external and internal customers across all the key products within our portfolio. External customers can include KEEs, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), Private Health Insurances (PHI), healthcare decision makers, and influencers in the country</li><li>Responsible for supporting and partnering with the Key Account Manager, ensuring to work on prioritised accounts</li><li>Responsible for the technical discussion of access by payers to generate value</li><li>Responsible for discussing access plans in key accounts and for ensuring that strategies and value propositions, are being applied with assertiveness to customers</li><li>Bring insights from the field to the country access manager and the International network</li><li>Support the Country Access manager for proposing innovative access model for different payer models</li><li>Builds external relationships with recognized experts in managed markets/health care systems.</li><li>Participation in Market Access and Medical Affairs meetings, providing customer insights to shape current and future value propositions</li><li>Contribution to Brand Strategy by supporting cross-functional and regional team(s)</li><li>Leadership to all BBU assigned medical activities in the pre-launch period and ensuring medical input to brand strategy planning.</li><li>Provide AZ team staff with an understanding of the local and regional medical community landscape, clinical practice trends and real and/or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge and medical treatment.</li><li>Support of pre-launch activities for new therapeutic area, products, and line extensions.</li><li>Share HCPs insight and customer needs with cross-functional and the International team.</li><li>Share educational highlights and insight gathered while at scientific congress with colleagues.</li><li>Monitor the competitors activities.</li><li>Facilitate Local Clinical Research</li><li><br></li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>MD, PharmD, or PhD in a scientific discipline</li><li>Minimum of 3 years of medical affairs experience in the biopharma or Saudi Healthcare clinical settings including a medical leadership position.</li><li>Ability to understand and formulate plans in complex healthcare ecosystems</li><li>Proven ability to effectively build partnerships, relationships and collaborate internally and externally.</li><li>Excellent presentation and written and verbal communication skills</li><li>Excellence in leadership, strategic mindset, project management, internal and external relationship management, analytical/problem solving skills</li><li>Demonstrated ability to communicate and comprehend scientific, economic, and humanistic concepts effectively with sophisticated and technical audiences required.</li><li>Training or experience in health economics, Pharmacoeconomics or health care policy is highly preferred.</li><li>Advanced English for reading scientific articles.</li></ul>

<p><span style="font-size: 11px;">ROLE SUMMARY</span></p><p>Our continuous mission is to transform the lives of people living with Chronic non communicable disease, through the development and delivery of innovative medicine, as well as supportive technologies and healthcare services. In the Saudi Arabia we are building up a dedicated AZ BioPharma Business Unit (AZ BBU) to support the Millions of patients suffering from conditions in therapy areas like Severe Asthma , CSWNP and lUPUS. As we continue to strenghthen our leadship position and acelerate our new pipeline launching , we seek a Biologic and Immunology (Severe. Asthma, CSwNP, COPD and Lupus ) TH Lead to join our Medical Affairs team in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Biologic and Immunology Portfolio Medical Lead reports to the KSA BBU Medical Director and member of the KSA BBU Medical Affairs Leadership team. The Medical Lead will provide medical affairs therapeutic area leadership to deploy and adapt the AZ Global International Severe Asthma, CSwNP , COPD, and Lupus Medical Affairs strategy, and will lead in future a team of medical affairs professionals (MSLs and Medical Advisors ) and oversees execution of medical activities.</p><p>What you ll do</p><ul><li>Providing strategic guidance to building TA medical organisation, creating the TA medical vision and ambition aligned with AZ KSA Vision 2030, working closely with the Medical Director.</li><li>Building and providing leadership to a high-performing KSA BBU medical team (including field medical) with demonstrated value and impact, nurture culture of mentoring and coaching of team members and integrate seamlessly work of medical team with BBU cross-functional brand teams efforts.</li><li>Leadership to building of AZ s External TA leadership, advocacy and establishing enduring partnerships and collaborations with key medical institutions, clinics and research centres and thought leader networks across KSA.</li><li>Responsible for all Biologics and Immunology TA medical operational and medical compliance processes are in place and driving process development and integration with the KSA AZ applicable policies and procedures.</li><li>The BBU Medical Lead is accountable for the medical team and their activities are conducted in full compliance with all applicable governing local laws and regulations and in compliance with all AZ applicable global and KSA policies, SOPs and guidance.</li><li>Driving patient centric approach to all activities: developing collaborations with Patient Association Groups (PAGs), elevating the awareness/profile of the designated disease area, partnering with HCP s and PAGs on patient identification initiatives that can be locally adapted.</li><li>Providing subject matter and medical expertise in areas such as presentation review, abstracts &amp; publications, advisory boards, continuous medical education activities.</li><li>Oversight and development of evidence generation strategy and concepts based on medical and payer and value evidence needs( implementation of registries , cohorts, or clinical trials and other studies)</li><li>Cross-functional support for development and execution of brand plans.</li><li>Other Accountabilities</li><li>Scientific Information Management and Dissemination and managing relationships with key stakeholders</li><li>Leadership to identifying and partnering with national, regional/local Key External Experts (KEEs) and partner with advocacy groups and PAGs.</li><li>Ensuring the CF team is up to date in respective therapeutic areas and products knowledge (including competitors).</li><li>Regular meetings with Key External Experts and Influence groups to build partnership, share data, request advice (advisory boards ), and provide support including publications, slide sets and others.</li><li>Ensure setting up systems for timely response to unsolicited requests for information about unapproved AZ BBU products or unapproved uses of approved products, presenting such information in an objective, well balanced, substantiated manner that is scientific in tone and content, free of promotional messages, truthful, and is not misleading.</li><li>Ensure fulfilment of medical information requests and oversee relevant processes</li><li>Appropriately share data with HCPs discussing all aspects of the data in a scientific, objective, and balanced way.</li><li>Facilitate continuous medical education events for HCPs.</li><li>Medical Value Access</li><li>Representing Medical in Value teams, contributing to business planning and the Market Access strategy by providing strategic medical input, Pharmacoeconomics/health outcomes input and customer insight.</li><li>Work with key internal and external stakeholders to identify optimal access pathways to the AZ BBU product(s)</li><li>Responsible for providing fair-balanced, objective, scientific/clinical information to external and internal customers across all the key products within our portfolio. External customers can include KEEs, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), Private Health Insurances (PHI), healthcare decision makers, and influencers in the country</li><li>Responsible for supporting and partnering with the Key Account Manager, ensuring to work on prioritised accounts</li><li>Responsible for the technical discussion of access by payers to generate value</li><li>Responsible for discussing access plans in key accounts and for ensuring that strategies and value propositions, are being applied with assertiveness to customers</li><li>Bring insights from the field to the country access manager and the International network</li><li>Support the Country Access manager for proposing innovative access model for different payer models</li><li>Builds external relationships with recognized experts in managed markets/health care systems.</li><li>Participation in Market Access and Medical Affairs meetings, providing customer insights to shape current and future value propositions</li><li>Contribution to Brand Strategy by supporting cross-functional and regional team(s)</li><li>Leadership to all BBU assigned medical activities in the pre-launch period and ensuring medical input to brand strategy planning.</li><li>Provide AZ team staff with an understanding of the local and regional medical community landscape, clinical practice trends and real and/or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge and medical treatment.</li><li>Support of pre-launch activities for new therapeutic area, products, and line extensions.</li><li>Share HCPs insight and customer needs with cross-functional and the International team.</li><li>Share educational highlights and insight gathered while at scientific congress with colleagues.</li><li>Monitor the competitors activities.</li><li><br></li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>MD, PharmD, or PhD in a scientific discipline</li><li>Minimum of 3 years of medical affairs experience in the biopharma or Saudi Healthcare clinical settings including a medical leadership position.</li><li>Ability to understand and formulate plans in complex healthcare ecosystems</li><li>Proven ability to effectively build partnerships, relationships and collaborate internally and externally.</li><li>Excellent presentation and written and verbal communication skills</li><li>Excellence in leadership, strategic mindset, project management, internal and external relationship management, analytical/problem solving skills</li><li>Demonstrated ability to communicate and comprehend scientific, economic, and humanistic concepts effectively with sophisticated and technical audiences required.</li><li>Training or experience in health economics, Pharmacoeconomics or health care policy is highly preferred.</li><li>Advanced English for reading scientific articles.</li></ul>

<p>Responsible for generating clinical demand for Biologics portfolio with key accounts, pro-actively identifying business opportunities, presenting value propositions aligned to stakeholder needs and objectives, and recommending solutions to drive and develop business. Develop strategic and mutually beneficial relationships with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Decision Making Unit (DMU), and potentially other stakeholders, based on a deep scientific understanding of the issues in order to identify the best opportunities for any part of AZ's Specialty portfolio to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. In this role, You will positively influence customers prescribing behavior to achieve sales targets, develop territory and build strong customer relationships with the objective of maximizing sales volume and market share of designated products on a given territory.</p><p>What you'll do</p><p>Develop account strategy and plans:</p><ul><li>Identify opportunities and strategies to improve positioning of AZ's Biologics products at a local level.</li><li>Work with Sales, Franchise Manager and CFT to develop a local strategy and business plan to meet targets and further improve positioning of AZ's Biologics products at a local level.</li><li>Conduct analysis of market &amp; competitors to identify territory business opportunities.</li><li>Develop Account plan and allocate resources (e.g. call activities, budget), for optimal sales impact.</li><li>Monitor Account business plan to ensure resources are directed to customers of the greatest potential.</li><li>Participate in promotional activity programs to increase product awareness in the market and establish AstraZeneca as a strategic partner with top institutes / accounts.</li><li>Gathering insights from target specialties and supporting the launch of new indication which is a new experience to AstraZeneca team.</li></ul><p>Create deep stakeholder relationships:</p><ul><li>Engage Biologics users in dialogue about approved indications, product efficacy / safety profiles and treatment protocols to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients.</li><li>Establish and maintain ongoing, long term collaborative relationships with stakeholders.</li><li>Share stakeholder insight and information within AZ to strengthen relevant activities, e.g., product development, marketing, sales efforts.</li><li>Update territory customer segmentation, database and call records continuously in Veeva.</li><li>Deliver key promotional messages according to approved plan and marketing strategy.</li><li>Build a trust and credibility with customers by demonstrating integrity and acting within the AstraZeneca Code of Conduct.</li><li>Explore and expand new customers developing more Bio-users.</li></ul><p>Reporting / Administration</p><ul><li>Submit monthly reports commenting on deviations from Business Plan and intended actions to align performance with objectives.</li><li>Ensure punctual delivery of reports and daily synchronization of ETMS Veeva.</li><li>Monitor and assess sales transactions to identify potential irregular sales patterns.</li></ul><p>Build capability and knowledge in healthcare eco-system:</p><ul><li>Build knowledge and understanding about AZ's overall Biologics value proposition, product's labelled indications and efficacy data among all relevant stakeholders in the MDT and DMU.</li><li>Utilize different communication approaches, techniques and channels to help build knowledge in the MDT and DMU.</li><li>Conduct science-based discussions with the HCP as per the approved indications of AZ's Biologics.</li><li>Arrange multidisciplinary workshops for physicians and other healthcare professionals.</li><li>Arrange and coordinate effective speaker programmes with physician advocates and KOLs</li><li>Actively support Central pharmacists and nurses on relevant trainings.</li></ul><p>Deliver on plans and achieve sales goals on budget</p><ul><li>Drive sales performance and ensure sales forecasts meet or exceed expectations while managing assigned budgets.</li><li>Successfully promote the benefits of AZ's Biologics brands, using fair balance messages and the appropriate mix of promotional tools.</li><li>Ensure AZ's products are optimally utilised in line with national / local guidelines and the product license.</li><li>Effectively implement sales strategy, tactics and TAP (Account action plan) aligned with CF in accordance with company policies.</li><li>Facilitate enlistment of newly launched and key products in accounts within the agreed timelines.</li></ul><p>Corporate responsibility:</p><ul><li>Comply with all external regulations and internal policies</li><li>Maintains highest ethical standards and work in a spirit of AstraZeneca Code of Ethics, following rules &amp; norms set by corporate policies</li><li>Ensures that all conducted activities are done in accordance with local legislation and corporate standards.</li><li>Timely reports (as per respective procedures): health/environment/wellbeing related accidents; adverse events that you became aware about; change in status of your Conflict of Interest.</li></ul><p>Personal Development</p><ul><li>Develop behaviors leading to enhanced effectiveness as outlined in the Associate Key Account Competency framework.</li><li>Identify areas for self-development and discuss developmental needs with the line manager to agree on solid IDP.</li><li>Attend &amp; actively participate in sales meetings, product, and training sessions.</li></ul><p>Only applications in KSA will be considered.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Essential Capabilities:</p><ul><li>Saudi national.</li><li>Minimum 2 years of Sales experience with a sound knowledge of account management, including relevant pharmaceutical sales experience.</li><li>Minimum 1 year of Sales experience in Biologics/Specialty.</li><li>Track record of engaging key stakeholders in complex clinical environments, e.g., mid and senior level healthcare professionals, key accounts and the medical community</li><li>Proven track record in influencing the stakeholder decision-making process in an ecosystem with multiple influential players / decision makers, with proven track record of creating value in complex DMU.</li><li>Proven successful working in complex cross functional teams.</li><li>Customer value proposition and patient centric.</li><li>Business Acumen with high medical knowledge.</li><li>Decision making and problem solving.</li><li>Key Account management expertise is preferred.</li><li>Experience with ENT specialty Doctors is preferred.</li></ul><p>Internal Criteria:</p><ul><li>Preferred minimum 2 years of Sales experience with a sound knowledge of account management, including relevant pharmaceutical sales experience.</li><li>Preferred minimum 1 year of Sales experience in Biologics/Specialty.</li><li>Seniority criteria policy will be applied.</li></ul>

<p><strong >What you ll do</strong></p><ul><li>Lead Medical Evidence generation activities in AstraZeneca in order to demonstrate scientific, medical and payer value related to AstraZeneca brands and business.</li><li>Lead on close collaboration with Medical Therapeutic Areas Team Leaders to align on business, access, medical and research strategy, and priorities.</li><li>Development and implementation of the plan for continuous and optimal collaboration with KSA SM&amp;M and GMA/ GMD, MEA/International Evidence ensuring bridging of research SM&amp;M/ MEOR - medical and commercial agenda.</li><li>Collaboration and interaction with AstraZeneca other MCs, MEA/International region, Global Medicine Development regarding Medical Evidence activities on clinical research</li><li>Drive development of external research collaborations across GCC markets and identify external database partnerships (work in close collaboration with corporate affairs)</li><li>Provide RWE generation expertise and support planning and delivery of Medical and Payer Evidence projects from idea to publication, with setting and tracking of KPI, as applicable.</li><li>Identify, evaluate, and obtain high-quality Real-World Data (RWD) sources to support strategic decision-making.</li><li>Assess the feasibility of data sources to ensure they align with research objectives and compliance requirements.</li><li>Design, conduct, and oversee evidence generation activities and RWD studies to expand the understanding of healthcare practices.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to disseminate findings that support local and global healthcare initiatives.</li><li>Develop and implement strategies to enhance internal evidence generation capabilities.</li><li>Provide training and resources to teams, ensuring the effective use of methodologies and tools to generate reliable and impactful evidence.</li><li>Analyse and interpret data to create compelling narratives that highlight practice-changing evidence.</li><li>Effectively communicate insights to key stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, policymakers, and industry leaders, to influence clinical practices and drive healthcare improvements.</li><li>Facilitate and support allocation of RWE and ESR activities and ensure adequate training.</li><li>Ensures development, update and implementation of the processes and procedures for Evidence Generation Support and review development of study documents and study execution optimization (CRO and Third-party oversight for research)</li><li>Review and approval of agreements and collaboration with external investigators, clinicians, payers, consulting companies, external service providers and other organizations as applicable</li><li>Ensure compliance with AstraZeneca governance and operating procedures.</li><li>Timely reporting/communication of functional deliveries/updates</li><li>Support partnership with external stake holders and service providers.</li><li>RWD/RWE projects &amp; studies Budget management</li><li>Periodic check on TMF QC and responsible for review of relevant sections/documents in accordance with SOP/Wis.</li><li>Leading, mentoring coaching Evidence Generation and Innovation team, ensuring adequate training and talent development within team.</li><li>As GCP Quality Lead, member of the GCC GXP Team, provide quality input to Quarterly GXP meetings.</li><li>Trial Quality systems oversight.</li></ul><p><strong>Typical Accountabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Facilitate Evidence Planning to optimize development of value stories and reimbursement dossiers.</li><li>Accountable for collaboration with SM&amp;M and GMA/ GMD, aiming to build GCC AstraZeneca position as recognized Scientific Leader</li><li>Medical Leadership including active role in GCC Medical Leadership and GXP teams.</li><li>Accountable for compliance with AstraZeneca governance and operating procedures</li><li>Accountable for ensuring that tasks are of correct quality and in accordance with written procedures and current legal requirements and internal standards.</li><li>Accountable for the team s and individuals level of competence being right as well as their compliance to current legal requirements and internal standards.</li><li>Accountable for development and implementation of the processes and procedures for Evidence Generation &amp; Publication needs assessment.</li><li>Accountable for compliance with the local GCP Quality Management and applicable AZ policies and Standards and for providing adequate training to the teams.</li><li>Only applications in KSA will be considered.</li></ul><p><strong>Essential for the role</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Essential Capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>MD, PhD or M.Sc. Degree in Natural science, Pharmacy, Medicine or equivalent.</li><li>10+ years Significant leadership experience in both Clinical Research &amp; Development and Medical Affairs in the Pharmaceutical Business, obtained in one or more of the GCC markets.</li><li>Understanding of GCC/KSA Healthcare systems and pharmaceutical regulatory environment.</li><li>Proven ability to lead teams and influence in a cross-functional and multidisciplinary, matrix context.</li><li>Fluent in speaking and good writing skills in English.</li><li>Ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a multi-TA, matrix environment.</li><li>High integrity and highest ethical standards.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p><strong>Essential Capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>MD, PhD or M.Sc. Degree in Natural science, Pharmacy, Medicine or equivalent.</li><li>10+ years Significant leadership experience in both Clinical Research &amp; Development and Medical Affairs in the Pharmaceutical Business, obtained in one or more of the GCC markets.</li><li>Understanding of GCC/KSA Healthcare systems and pharmaceutical regulatory environment.</li><li>Proven ability to lead teams and influence in a cross-functional and multidisciplinary, matrix context.</li><li>Fluent in speaking and good writing skills in English.</li><li>Ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a multi-TA, matrix environment.</li><li>High integrity and highest ethical standards.</li></ul><p><strong>Desirable Capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Strategic/Business insights and awareness of TA/Brand specific strategies.</li><li>Business acumen.</li><li>Knowledge of global R&amp;D ways of working.</li><li>Experience from with External Service Providers.</li><li>Ability to develop and implement applicable operational processes.</li><li>Negotiation and conflict resolution skills.</li></ul>

<p><br></p><p><strong>ROLE SUMMARY</strong> Our continuous mission is to transform the lives of people living with Chronic non communicable disease, through the development and delivery of innovative medicine, as well as supportive technologies and healthcare services. In the Saudi Arabia we are building up a dedicated AZ BioPharma Business Unit (AZ BBU) to support the Millions of patients suffering from conditions in therapy areas like Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolisom As we continue to strenghthen our leadship position and acelerate our new pipeline launching , we seek a CVRM Emerging portfolio Lead to join our Medical Affairs team in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . The CVRM Emerging portfolioMedical Lead reports to the KSA BBU Medical Director and member of the KSA BBU Medical Affairs Leadership team.. The Medical Lead will provide medical affairs therapeutic area leadership to deploy and adapt the AZ Global International Dyslipidemia , Weight management, and Amyloidosis Medical Affairs strategy, and will lead in future a team of medical affairs professionals (MSLs and Medical Advisors ) and oversees execution of medical activities.</p><p><strong>What you ll do</strong></p><ul><li>Providing strategic guidance to building TA medical organisation, creating the TA medical vision and ambition aligned with AZ KSA Vision 2030, working closely with the Medical Director.</li><li>Building and providing leadership to a high-performing KSA BBU medical team (including field medical) with demonstrated value and impact, nurture culture of mentoring and coaching of team members and integrate seamlessly work of medical team with BBU cross-functional brand teams efforts.</li><li>Leadership to building of AZ s External TA leadership, advocacy and establishing enduring partnerships and collaborations with key medical institutions, clinics and research centres and thought leader networks across KSA.</li><li>Responsible for all Emerging portfolio (Weight management , Dyslipidemia and Amyloidosis) TA medical operational and medical compliance processes are in place and driving process development and integration with the KSA AZ applicable policies and procedures.</li><li>The BBU Medical Lead is accountable for the medical team and their activities are conducted in full compliance with all applicable governing local laws and regulations and in compliance with all AZ applicable global and KSA policies, SOPs and guidance.</li><li>Driving patient centric approach to all activities: developing collaborations with Patient Association Groups (PAGs), elevating the awareness/profile of the designated disease area, partnering with HCP s and PAGs on patient identification initiatives that can be locally adapted.</li><li>Providing subject matter and medical expertise in areas such as presentation review, abstracts &amp; publications, advisory boards, continuous medical education activities.</li><li>Oversight and development of evidence generation strategy and concepts based on medical and payer and value evidence needs( implementation of registries , cohorts, or clinical trials and other studies)</li><li>Cross-functional support for development and execution of brand plans.</li><li>Other Accountabilities</li><li>Scientific Information Management and Dissemination and managing relationships with key stakeholders</li><li>Leadership to identifying and partnering with national, regional/local Key External Experts (KEEs) and partner with advocacy groups and PAGs.</li><li>Ensuring the CF team is up to date in respective therapeutic areas and products knowledge (including competitors).</li><li>Regular meetings with Key External Experts and Influence groups to build partnership, share data, request advice (advisory boards ), and provide support including publications, slide sets and others.</li><li>Ensure setting up systems for timely response to unsolicited requests for information about unapproved AZ BBU products or unapproved uses of approved products, presenting such information in an objective, well balanced, substantiated manner that is scientific in tone and content, free of promotional messages, truthful, and is not misleading.</li><li>Ensure fulfilment of medical information requests and oversee relevant processes</li><li>Appropriately share data with HCPs discussing all aspects of the data in a scientific, objective, and balanced way.</li><li>Facilitate continuous medical education events for HCPs.</li><li>Medical Value Access</li><li>Representing Medical in Value teams, contributing to business planning and the Market Access strategy by providing strategic medical input, Pharmacoeconomics/health outcomes input and customer insight.</li><li>Work with key internal and external stakeholders to identify optimal access pathways to the AZ BBU product(s)</li><li>Responsible for providing fair-balanced, objective, scientific/clinical information to external and internal customers across all the key products within our portfolio. External customers can include KEEs, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), Private Health Insurances (PHI), healthcare decision makers, and influencers in the country</li><li>Responsible for supporting and partnering with the Key Account Manager, ensuring to work on prioritised accounts</li><li>Responsible for the technical discussion of access by payers to generate value</li><li>Responsible for discussing access plans in key accounts and for ensuring that strategies and value propositions, are being applied with assertiveness to customers</li><li><br></li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p><strong>Essential Capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>For Internal and External Candidates</li><li>MD, PharmD, or PhD in a scientific discipline</li><li>Minimum of 3 years of medical affairs experience in the biopharma or Saudi Healthcare clinical settings including a medical leadership position.</li><li>Ability to understand and formulate plans in complex healthcare ecosystems</li><li>Proven ability to effectively build partnerships, relationships and collaborate internally and externally.</li><li>Excellent presentation and written and verbal communication skills</li><li>Excellence in leadership, strategic mindset, project management, internal and external relationship management, analytical/problem solving skills</li><li>Demonstrated ability to communicate and comprehend scientific, economic, and humanistic concepts effectively with sophisticated and technical audiences required.</li><li>Training or experience in health economics, Pharmacoeconomics or health care policy is highly preferred.</li><li>Advanced English for reading scientific articles.</li></ul><p><strong>Why AstraZeneca?</strong></p><p>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. 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.</p><p><strong>Where can I find out more?</strong></p><p>Our social media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn Follow AstraZeneca on Facebook Follow AstraZeneca on Instagram</p><p><strong>Date Posted</strong> 23-Aug-2026 <strong>Closing Date</strong> 29-Aug-2026</p><p>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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.</p>

<p>Senior Medical Representative R&amp;I 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. Join a high-performing team, empowered to cut through the noise and drive real change. Our agility and pace, coupled with scientific focus, powers us to spot opportunities in the market that keep us moving forward and into new spaces. SITE DESCRIPTION AstraZeneca is experiencing a significant transformation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, driven by a commitment to advancing healthcare, innovation, and sustainable growth. Building on our global legacy, AZ KSA is rapidly evolving its operations to better serve patients, collaborate with healthcare stakeholders, and contribute to the ambitious goals outlined in the Saudi Vision 2030. We are investing in talent, digital solutions, and new ways of working; all designed to enhance our impact on patient outcomes and reinforce our leadership in therapeutic areas. This dynamic environment calls for visionary, agile professionals who thrive in change and are motivated to help shape the future of healthcare in KSA.</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;ROLE SUMMARY This position is primarily responsible for positively influencing customers prescribing behavior to achieve sales targets, develop territory and build strong customer relationships with the objective of maximizing sales volume and market share of designated products in a given territory in compliance with AZ CO. What you ll do Engage primary care healthcare professionals in dialogue about approved indications and product efficacy/safety profiles to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients. Work with Sales Manager to develop a local strategy and business plan to meet or exceed sales and call execution goals in the territory Drive sales performance and ensure sales forecasts and assigned budgets to meet or exceed therapeutic and territory expectations Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of the market, demographic, and manage market information relative to assigned sales territory Comply with all regulations regarding interactions with healthcare professionals, distribution of samples, etc. Ensure excellent medical knowledge and promotional skills related to his/her disease area and product Only applications in KSA will be considered. Essential for the role 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. Essential Capabilities: Saudi National. Bachelor s degree in pharmaceutical science or any similar medical field. Minimum 2 years of pharmaceutical sales experience Fluency in English. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Strong work ethics and cross-function teamwork Comprehensive understanding of the commercial pharmaceutical marketplace and strong business acumen. Outstanding selling skills and influencing skills. Planning and organization skills. Desirable Capabilities: Previous experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry Evidence of leadership skills. Business communication and problem-solving skills. Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><b>Essential Capabilities:</b><p>Saudi National. Bachelor s degree in pharmaceutical science or any similar medical field. Minimum 2 years of pharmaceutical sales experience Fluency in English. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Strong work ethics and cross-function teamwork Comprehensive understanding of the commercial pharmaceutical marketplace and strong business acumen. Outstanding selling skills and influencing skills. Planning and organization skills.</p><b>Desirable Capabilities:</b><p>Previous experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry Evidence of leadership skills. Business communication and problem-solving skills. Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint</p>

<p><br></p><p>ROLE SUMMARY This position is primarily responsible for positively influencing customers prescribing behavior to achieve sales targets, develop territory and build strong customer relationships with the objective of maximizing sales volume and market share of designated products in a given territory in compliance with AZ CO.</p><p>What you ll do</p><ul><li>Engage primary care healthcare professionals in dialogue about approved indications and product efficacy/safety profiles to support on-label prescribing for appropriate patients.</li><li>Work with Sales Manager to develop a local strategy and business plan to meet or exceed sales and call execution goals in the territory</li><li>Drive sales performance and ensure sales forecasts and assigned budgets to meet or exceed therapeutic and territory expectations</li><li>Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of the market, demographic, and manage market information relative to assigned sales territory</li><li>Comply with all regulations regarding interactions with healthcare professionals, distribution of samples, etc.</li><li>Ensure excellent medical knowledge and promotional skills related to his/her disease area and product</li></ul><p>Only applications in KSA will be considered.</p><p>Why AstraZeneca?</p><p>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</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Essential for the role 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.</p><p>Essential Capabilities:</p><ul><li>Saudi National.</li><li>Bachelor s degree in pharmaceutical science or any similar medical field.</li><li>Minimum 2 years of pharmaceutical sales experience</li><li>Fluency in English.</li><li>Strong interpersonal and communication skills.</li><li>Strong work ethics and cross-function teamwork</li><li>Comprehensive understanding of the commercial pharmaceutical marketplace and strong business acumen.</li><li>Outstanding selling skills and influencing skills.</li><li>Planning and organization skills.</li></ul><p>Desirable Capabilities:</p><ul><li>Previous experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry</li><li>Evidence of leadership skills.</li><li>Business communication and problem-solving skills.</li><li>Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint</li></ul><p>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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.</p>