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Medical Affairs Strategic Project Manager
Job Summary
Responsibilities
Description:
· Responsible for the successful planning, managing, and execution of key Medical Affairs initiatives.
· Interfaces with Medical Affairs Leadership and stakeholders to understand and solve complex business challenges.
· Enables best practice sharing and consistent use of commonly defined processes, tools, and templates.
· Facilitates timely and effective decision-making.
· Develops effective frameworks, presentations, and communications that facilitate achievement of project goals.
Major Responsibilities
· Quickly understand business challenges and champion the needs of a variety of Medical Affairs stakeholders.
· Provide clarity to nebulous business issues and develop actionable solutions that drive positive business outcomes.
· Develop clear and accurate project work plans to facilitate effective project management and prioritize/manage project work.
· Solicit active engagement from project stakeholders, subject matter experts, and others in the organization as appropriate.
· Manage Medical Affairs projects to ensure high-impact, timely, and on-budget delivery.
· Provide direction and leadership to cross-functional project resources (both internal and external).
· Facilitate timely and effective decision making.
· Anticipate, identify and resolve business risks/issues.
· Develop effective frameworks, presentations, and communications (written and oral).
· Define and monitor key performance indicators/metrics to measure initiative successes.
· Create process designs to streamline and simplify business processes.
· Enable best practice sharing and consistent use of commonly defined methods, processes, tools, and templates.
Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree
· Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs experience
· Project Management experience and expertise
· Demonstrated ability to lead and produce results in a matrix environment: "Lead without Authority"
 We want you to build a balanced life at AstraZeneca. Your career is just one part of that. We offer competitive salaries, rewards and recognitions for your invaluable time and efforts. We also bring you all the things you need to for your life outside of your work: - generous health and welfare benefits
- flexible scheduling
- child care programs
- learning and development opportunities
- fitness centers
- and other personal conveniences
At AstraZeneca, we put people first. Whether it's the patients we help or the employees who make everything we do possible. AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. 
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