Global Commercial Head, Cell Therapy

At AstraZeneca, every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives every day. Each of us believes that science can change lives and to deliver this takes many people with many skill sets. When we deliver a life-changing medicine, that success comes from the combined efforts of all our people. 

Within the AstraZeneca Cell Therapy Enterprise, our ambition is to realize the full potential of cell therapy for people living with cancer, immune-mediated and rare diseases around the world. This unit has responsibility for the value chain from discovery through to late-stage development and commercialization. We are rapidly progressing a broad pipeline of cell therapies in collaboration with AstraZeneca’s Therapeutic Area Units.   

The Role: 

Reporting to the VP, Cell Therapy Enterprise Strategy and Commercial, the Global Commercial Head is a key role for our ambitious Cell Therapy expansion – a field that comes with highly diverse and significant scientific and commercial opportunity. Our commitment to creating a leading Cell Therapy portfolio franchise has been shown with our continued investment in this space and creation of a new unit. 

We are determined to create a leading Cell Therapy portfolio in the years ahead, driving successful worldwide access and commercialization for our leading medicine AZD0120, and later across our autologous, allogeneic, and in vivo platforms. 

As a key contributor to future growth we seek dedicated global commercial leadership to successfully shape and mobilize a young organization across functions and markets, maximizing the global potential of Cell Therapy. 

Who you are: 

You are a passionate leader who is excited about the opportunity to create trust, credibility, and value in the long run, in one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding scientific and commercial areas in healthcare: Cell Therapy. 
  

You can think globally and locally. You can integrate a variety of perspectives into meaningful strategies and programs. You embrace curiosity, collaboration and smart risk taking as a prerequisite for joint success. You speak up and challenge, always towards better outcomes and towards highest integrity. You enthusiastically embrace the diversity of individual healthcare ecosystems as significant opportunity. You can relate and connect deeply with various healthcare and business markets to deliver direction and support. You can create and mobilize a work environment of highest integrity and quality, fostering learning, growth, individual development and attraction of top talent. 

Your main Accountabilities and tasks: 

• You are accountable for Cell Therapy’s commercial strategy and its success. 

• You develop, shape, evolve, and implement resources and programs to support the full range of commercial lifecycle deliverables 

• You work with core markets to prepare for / deliver on all Cell Therapy commercialization and launch programs 

• You build and shape capabilities in global and in markets to drive state-of-the-art commercialization 

• You contribute to the broader Therapeutic Area strategies across Oncology, Autoimmune Diseases, Hematology, and Rare diseases 

• You represent Cell Therapy business perspectives to cross functional teams, senior executives and governance committees, ensuring that commercialization priorities are appropriately considered. 

• You will expand and manage the global commercial team for Cell Therapies 

• You collaborate with the Strategy and Commercial extended team to deliver a sustainable pricing and access strategy for all cell therapy indications 

• You contribute actively to advancing, accelerating, and simplifying our working and partnering models and processes towards maximum value creation for patients, healthcare, societies, and AstraZeneca 

Your education, knowledge and experience 

• Undergraduate scientific background.  Medical and/or PhD / MBA preferred 

• 10+ years of pharmaceutical marketing experience 

• Profound understanding of drug development and commercialization in Cell Therapy 

• Solid grasp of ongoing paradigm changes and future trends in healthcare commercialization 

• Proven track record of experience / accountability for business success in a major healthcare market 

• Broad commercial experience with proven track record of key commercialization deliveries (e.g. pre-launch / launch / HTA validation / long term business planning and business case development) 

• Strong strategic thinking, judgement and influencing skills 

• Strong leadership attributes to set direction, generate commitment, balance short- and long-term needs, constructively resolve issues, integrate cross functional contributions 

• Proven experience and knowledge of a broad base of external partners and customers including patients, prescribers, payors, providers and in/out license partners. 

• Strong understanding of key commercialization and marketing skill sets 

• P&L Management 

• Experienced with key global regulations in the field of Healthcare and Medical compliance and commercialization as well as Pharmacovigilance 

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $270,224 to $405,332. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.