Medical Advisor Immunology Sweden – Nordic Marketing Company

Do you want to transform the lives of patients by taking a vital role in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Are you ready to shape the future of healthcare? Then AstraZeneca has an exciting opportunity for you!

As part of AstraZeneca, the Nordic Marketing Company employs around 550 people across 5 countries and has offices located in Stockholm, Espoo, Copenhagen and Oslo. By 2025 AstraZeneca Nordic strives to become a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and improve the lives of millions of people. We drive innovative science, deliver key launches, build close collaboration and partnerships within health care.

Join our expanding team at AstraZeneca as a Medical Advisor in our Immunology team within the Biopharmaceuticals Business Unit. This field-based role, located in Sweden, offers the unique opportunity to develop and implement our medical-scientific strategy specifically for Immunology. The successful candidate will join a dedicated medical team, reporting to the Therapeutic Area Lead Sweden.

The role

As a Medical Advisor for Immunology, you will be responsible for implementing medical activity plans for AstraZeneca’s marketed products and for compounds in development. You will translate scientific knowledge into strategies and tactics that support business success and demonstrate valuable insights from the external environment to enhance decision making. You will develop long-term professional relationships and gain insights from Health Care Professionals (HCPs) and decision makers. You will drive proactive and reactive interactions through collecting and sharing medical and scientific knowledge across the portfolio while assuring that quality is in accordance with written procedures, current legal requirements, and internal standards. You will also engage in in-depth medical and scientific product and disease area discussions, and presentations in a non-promotional scientific context. Here, you act as a scientific expert in your priority disease area.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Advanced scientific degree, preferably PhD, in life sciences or a related area
• Experience in field-based Medical Affairs, minimum 2-3 years, specifically in-clinic education
• A pro-active approach, a can-do attitude and motivation driven by engaging external partners (e.g., HCPs)
• Knowledge of the Swedish Healthcare System
• Excellent presentation and communications skills, both in Swedish and English
• Ability to travel (within Sweden on a frequent basis and occasional international travel to congresses and internal meetings)
• Driver’s license required

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Additional skills or experience in the field would be beneficial.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, we are at the forefront of medical innovation. We use our unique position as medical leaders across our enterprise and the healthcare ecosystem to shape the future of Healthcare. Theres so much opportunity here as we continue to grow - no better place to improve patients lives and develop with AstraZeneca. We provide medical leadership across the whole product lifecycle - from advising on Research & Development investment decisions, to leading pre-launch scientific efforts and accelerating evidence based healthcare changes in the real world. Its by developing and delivering our science to patients in need, that we help the enterprise to reinvest back into research and support our scientific innovations.

I&D

We are proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration! Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.

So, what is next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Great, because we cannot wait to hear from you. Welcome with your application, in English, latest by the 29th of May.

Where can I find out more?

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