Senior Marketing Manager - Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

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Reporting to the Franchise Head for Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers, the Senior Marketing Manager (SMM) – GI Cancers will be a key leader in building our Gastric cancer portfolio of indications into the standard of care for patients. The successful candidate for this role will be a strategic leader with a passion for customer engagement and putting patients first. You play to win but do the right thing and act with integrity.

You are joining a team of ambitious individuals driven to build a culture that is science and patient-focused, agile and high-performing. Your role within this Oncology team will be to work collaboratively with the other Oncology SMMs and MMs to improve work and seek opportunities for learning and sharing new insights and doing things differently.

Accountabilities

• Be responsible for the gastric tumour area for AstraZeneca, leading a cross-functional team to improve the forward-thinking potential of the tumour area through development and execution of the Tumor Strategy, Positioning, Segmentation and Tactical Plans to achieve business objectives in a timely manner
• Work closely with the Canadian regulatory and access team to secure new indications and funding
• Prepare and implement significant customer activities and sales force content deployment, implementing campaigns with a consistent voice across channels
• Build professional relationships with key external customers to transform the Canadian landscape for patients with gastric cancer
• Develop strong relationships with counterparts across global markets to identify and demonstrate best practices
• Conduct robust budget planning and operational financial management
• Monitor sales and business trends to spot potential opportunities and challenges fast
• Uphold a best-in-class commercial approach to establish AstraZeneca as leaders in the GI cancer therapeutic area while encouraging an inclusive high-performance environment that values and leverages diversity
• Cultivate strategic collaboration and outstanding execution for pan-tumour indications

Essential Skills/Experience

• University degree or equivalent experience in science and/or business
• Minimum of 5 years related pharmaceutical industry experience including marketing with experience successfully leading a cross-functional team
• Previous oncology experience
• Strong business insight: strong critical thinking and planning skills with ability to implement plans with excellence
• Solid understanding of Product Management (including planning and critical thinking skills) with previous launch experience preferred
• Financial acumen: inputting on forecast assumptions, budget management and spend optimization and trade-off decisions
• Strong learning agility and can adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
• High self-awareness with the ability to build positive relationships using your strong people skills
• Strong influencing skills and communication skills

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Gastrointestinal cancer or early stage cancer experience is a strong asset

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