Brand Manager – GI Oncology

Region: London St Pancras

Competitive Salary & Benefits

Join the UK Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology team as a Brand Manager and help shape the next phase of our evolving portfolio across hepatobiliary (HPB) and oesophagogastric (OG) cancers.

Spanning multiple indications, brands, tumour types, biomarkers and customer groups, this is an opportunity for an agile marketer to use customer, clinical and market insights to shape strategic priorities and translate them into focused action that delivers measurable value for customers, the business and patients.

We are looking for someone who thrives in complexity and change, bringing energy, curiosity and sound judgement to problem-solving. You will challenge and simplify conventional approaches, prioritise effectively and build strong cross-functional relationships.

UK GI Oncology marketing is a close-knit, high-performing team that values pace, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement. We are looking for someone who can see the bigger picture, turn thinking into action and remain focused on making a meaningful difference for people living with GI cancers #leadingaGIantrevolution.

Accountability:

You will lead the development and delivery of strategic priorities across the portfolio, spanning both in-market and pipeline indications. Taking a portfolio-wide perspective, you will identify synergies and interdependencies, anticipate implications across plans and make clear, insight and data-led recommendations. You will translate strategy into focused execution with defined measures of success and be accountable for delivery, impact and the effective allocation of investment.

You will play a key role in evolving how we engage customers across the portfolio. You will support the team in levelling up on customer engagement through optimising customer journeys and channel approaches that create connected and seamless experiences. You will champion an agile, data-led test-and-learn mindset, using insights and performance data to continuously improve customer experience and impact. You will proactively identify opportunities to simplify, improve and innovate, harnessing AI-enabled solutions, emerging technologies and new channels to enhance engagement and outcomes.

You will manage agency relationships, budgets, timelines and governance requirements, ensuring all activities are delivered in line with ABPI requirements and AstraZeneca processes. Success will require adaptability, resilience and personal accountability, maintaining momentum and high standards in a fast-changing environment.

Essential skills and experience:

• Degree qualified or equivalent professional background
• Background in pharmaceutical marketing or healthcare consultancy
• Proven ability to develop and deliver strategic plans
• Strong capability in integrated customer engagement across channels
• Working knowledge of the ABPI Code of Practice
• Knowledge of the UK market and NHS environment

Desirable skills and experience:

• Oncology experience, preferably within GI
• Experience mapping customer journeys, segmenting audiences and developing engagement plans tailored to customer needs
• Familiarity with budget tracking
• Experience working in an agile, test-and-learn environments.
• Track record of managing external agencies

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 as a minimum 60% of our time face to face in our impressive central London  office spaces collaborating with cross functional colleagues or with our external stakeholders in face to face settings.  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?

We’re all here to make an impact – to achieve our bold ambition of eliminating cancer as a cause of death. In the Oncology Business Unit, we relentlessly follow the science, challenging the status quo to deliver more effective treatments to patients in need. Our commitment means we purposefully push back the limits of knowledge to change the practice of medicine. To ensure no patient is left behind, no matter what stage of disease. We are brave disruptors – entrepreneurial, courageous and pioneering in our approach. Here you have the opportunity to step up, take personal accountability and lead changes in our ever-evolving environment.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

Are you ready to transform the lives of people living with cancer by leading in patient experience and care? Join us now! Together we can make this the greatest decade ever in the fight against cancer.

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