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Experience
7 - 12 Years
Job Location
Education
Bachelor of Pharmacy(Pharmacy)
Nationality
Any Nationality
Gender
Not Mentioned
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Franchise Leadership and Commercial Execution
- Leads all franchise commercial activities across the Gulf, including Marketing and Sales strategy and execution with a patient-centric approach.
- Develops localized RD franchise strategy anchored in Global strategy, including brand plans, launch plans, performance reviews, and strategic integration of an expanding portfolio with synergies across brands.
- Identifies and executes new brand, existing brand, and trade opportunities; supervises use of market data to build market models that optimize product strategies.
- Owns forecasting and P&L delivery: sets assumptions, tracks insights and trends, and manages resources and budgets.
- Drives brand plan execution and KPIs through cross-functional collaboration; plans, monitors, and reports team activities per AZ standards and timelines.
- Develops communication and campaign materials, manages external agencies, and ensures required sign-off.
Team Leadership and Capability Building
- Leads, coaches, and mentor direct reports (Marketing and Sales) and matrix teams to ensure high performance, development, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Develops and manages relationships with KEEs, in collaboration with Medical and senior leadership; supports government affairs and market access to enable policy shaping and portfolio growth.
- Engages above market with global/regional teams to share best practices and ensure quality deliverables.
Ethics and Compliance
- Demonstrates and enforces high ethical standards; ensures compliance with AZ Code of Conduct, policies, local laws, and marketing procedures.
- Timely reporting (as per procedures) of health/environment/wellbeing incidents, adverse events, and conflicts of interest.
Desired Candidate Profile
For Internal Candidates:
- Bachelor s degree in pharmacy or a scientific field.
- 7+ years pharmaceutical with a strong performance track record
- Rare Disease and/or Specialty experience
- Gulf relevant market experience.
- Proven track record of successfully launching new products and indications with creative marketing capabilities.
- Proven leadership skills; stakeholder management; strategic thinking
- Business acumen and analytical skills ability to synthesize and integrate insights to set strategy and tactics.
- High standards of ethical behavior; experience in multicultural/international environments.
For External Candidates:
- Bachelor s degree in pharmacy or a scientific field.
- 12+ years pharmaceutical with a strong performance track record
- More than 5 years of success in strategic marketing, brand planning, and project management.
- Strong senior marketing and/or senior sales leadership with a successful track record of managing sales/brand managers with minimum 3+ years of leadership experience.
- Gulf relevant market experience.
- Proven track record of successfully launching new products and indications with creative marketing capabilities.
- Rare Disease and/or Specialty experience
- Proven leadership skills; stakeholder management; strategic thinking
- Excellent track record of leading and developing teams.
- Business acumen and analytical skills ability to synthesize and integrate insights to set strategy and tactics.
- High standards of ethical behavior; experience in multicultural/international environments.
Company Industry
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Keywords
- Franchise Head META
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Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd.
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. AstraZeneca is accelerating its expansion in Rare Diseases following the acquisition of Alexion. Rare diseases are a high-growth therapy area with significant unmet medical need; over 7,000 rare diseases are known, yet fewer than 1% have approved treatments.