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Regional Healthcare Manager - Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire

Location Cambridge, England, United Kingdom Job ID R-219640 Date posted 11/02/2025

Regional Healthcare Manager

Region: Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire

Competitive salary & benefit package

As a Regional Healthcare Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in channelling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. The purpose of this role is to deliver regional guidelines changes and maintain a positive environment for AstraZeneca Medicines within pre-defined accounts (including ICS / sub-ICB / Health Board and other influencing bodies). You will meet targeted clinical practice change partnerships and programs, ensuring pull-through by working closely with local cross-functional teams. In addition to demonstrating the impact of these initiatives in terms of improved outcomes, multifaceted market shaping, market growth, and market share, you will be required to understand and adapt to the Regional NHS environment. You will own the regional thinking on the implementation of the NHS short and long-term plan to deliver on AZ business strategies and goals.

Accountabilities

  • Delivery of regional budget (sales target)
  • Achieving Market Access at defined account level, supporting Patient access and practice change at a local level
  • Effective business-to-business selling based on payer value proposition to support practice change at scale
  • Implementing commercial and project-based partnerships with the NHS at a locality level as required by the business
  • Developing and maintaining Regional account plans as part of the Regional Leadership team
  • Developing and maintaining strong professional relationships with key partners (Commercial Payors, Clinical payors, Commissioners) to optimize regional access environment
  • Developing clinical and strategic NHS advocacy, delivering short, medium, and long-term goals
  • Ensuring compliance with all AZ governance policies and adherence to ABPI Code of Practice

Essential Skills/Experience

  • Degree or equivalent experience
  • Experience and success ideally within R&I
  • Full driving license
  • Strong NHS knowledge
  • Influencing at a senior NHS level
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Project Management
  • Discernment in Business
  • Account Management

Desirable Skills/Experience

  • ABPI qualification
  • Local NHS knowledge and experience of working with strategic customers in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire
  • Influencing guidelines and local funding flows
  • Drives vision & purpose
  • Plans & aligns
  • Customer focus
  • Ensure accountability
  • Collaborates
  • Business insight
  • Situation adaptability

At AstraZeneca, we work along the patient journey to realise the potential of our science. Here we take a broad approach to patients, going beyond just medicines to address the patient experience. We work along the whole patient journey - from prevention to better diagnosis. Only then can we help to realise the truly transformative potential of our science.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare and making a meaningful impact on patients' lives. Apply now!

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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.

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