Marketing Lead Oncology

Position: Marketing Lead Oncology

Location: London, UK

Competitive Salary & Benefits

Advert Closing Date: 25 May 2026

Do you have expertise in, and a passion for, Developing and Leading Brand Strategies?

Join us at AstraZeneca as we continue leadership in the area of Lung Cancer. As the Marketing Lead, you will be at the forefront of developing brand strategies for several indications, driving product adoption and delivering positive outcomes. You will collaborate with internal partners and key lung cancer customer groups, ensuring alignment with regional and global plans. This role offers an exciting opportunity to deliver agreed sales targets and customer value within defined resources.

Accountabilities

The Marketing Lead is responsible for developing and driving the overall marketing strategy for in-market indications and pipeline launch preparation, ensuring AstraZeneca is positioned to deliver meaningful outcomes for patients, healthcare professionals, and the wider health system.

The role will translate brand, portfolio, customer, and external stakeholder insights into clear strategic priorities, then lead implementation through close collaboration with cross-functional partners including Medical, Market Access, Sales, Commercial Excellence, Diagnostics, Regulatory, and external stakeholders where appropriate. A core focus will be ensuring that strategies are patient-centred, evidence-based, and aligned to evolving clinical practice, treatment pathways, and customer needs.

As an externally facing and well-connected leader, the Marketing Lead will build strong relationships with key external stakeholders to bring outside-in perspectives into the organisation, deepen understanding of the evolving healthcare environment, identify unmet needs, and inform strategy development and execution.

The Marketing Lead will play a key role in shaping launch readiness, maximising the impact of existing indications, and partnering to optimise patient pathways to support earlier diagnosis, appropriate treatment, and improved access to AstraZeneca medicines.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Degree qualified
• Strong marketing leadership with a successful track record of delivering impact as well as preparing for and optimally launching new products and brands
• Creative marketing capabilities together with thorough commercial business acumen
• Experience of working within cross-functional business units and managing multiple external and internal stakeholders
• Understanding of Account Planning and Customer Engagement programme and processes
• Excellent communication and partnership leadership skills

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in lung cancer, including knowledge of local and international thought leaders
• Strong understanding of the UK healthcare system, including NHS structures and clinical pathways
• Experience across multiple oncology tumour areas and/or rare diseases.
• Experience in regional or global commercial roles.
• Experience working within alliance or partnership models

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca's Oncology Business Unit, we are driven by our ambition to be world leaders in Oncology.

We have a game-changing pipeline with countless new indications and targets. Since our renewed focus on building our Oncology function, we have had great success with 7 new Oncology medicines since 2013. We are ranked at the top of the invention scale with “best pipeline” by ‘IDEA Pharma’. We have an ambitious goal to deliver 6 new molecular entities by 2025. By leveraging our commercialised portfolio we are confident we can change the practice of medicine and redefine cancer treatment.

At AstraZeneca UK, we are committed to delivering against three missions:

• Accelerating the position of the UK as a global centre of excellence in life sciences
• Redefining healthcare through fast and equitable access to the most effective medicines, high quality care
• Delivering sustainable leadership that prioritises healthy people, society and planet

Our head office in Pancras Square offers us the strongest possible platform to transform the lives of patients, as the country’s leading biopharmaceutical company. It brings AstraZeneca UK closer to our customers, partners and collaborators in the UK’s healthcare environment, as well as develop greater collaboration with the wider AstraZeneca footprint.

Are you ready to join a team that's making a real impact on patients' lives?

Apply now and let's reimagine medicine together!

Date Posted

12-May-2026

Closing Date

25-May-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.