Associate Medical Director

AstraZeneca • Gaithersburg, MD

14d • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to convert scientific insight into launch excellence that reshapes the cancer care experience for patients and care teams? Do you thrive at the intersection of science, strategy, and flawless execution—moving from plan to measurable impact with speed and rigor?
In this role, you will be a central driver of how we bring transformative oncology medicines to patients, orchestrating medical strategy, launch readiness, field insight translation, and external engagement. You will connect medical priorities to tangible outcomes—elevating launch quality, advancing external scientific dialogue, and enabling smarter, faster decisions across cross-functional teams.
You will join a high-trust, fast-moving environment where unexpected teams come together to push the boundaries of what medical affairs can deliver. Your leadership will help shape how we design medical plans, engage experts, gather and act on insights, and deliver integrated congress and advisory strategies that accelerate impact.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced clinical or scientific degree (MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent) and experience in oncology within medical affairs or clinical development
• Demonstrated success in pre-launch and launch execution for specialty or precision medicines, including LRR leadership and pull-through
• Strong experience leading advisory boards, congress strategies, and KEE engagement in compliance with local regulations and internal policy
• Proven ability to translate field insights into prioritized tactics and adjust plans in real time
• Familiarity with PMRT/MLR processes and high-quality medical content evaluation
• Vendor management, budgeting, and project management experience with track record of delivering on time and within scope
• Excellent cross-functional leadership, influencing, and communication skills, with the ability to represent the Medical Lead and guide working groups
• Comfort working in dynamic, fast-paced settings with a focused attitude and clear accountability

Responsibilities

• Medical Strategy and Planning: Coordinate the development and quarterly review of the integrated Medical Affairs Plan (iMAP), align with the Medical Lead and Core Medical Team, and track budget to keep plans on scope and pace.
• Launch Excellence: Drive Launch Readiness Reviews (LRR) by coordinating and tracking pre-launch activities, ensuring timely execution and pull-through of the endorsed LRR plan into tangible field and external actions.
• Field Insight to Action: Synthesize field insights into clear, actionable tactics; influence the Field Engagement plan; share back with the business; and adjust plans dynamically based on evidence and feedback.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Complete Medical Affairs Leadership Team directives; provide coverage for the Medical Lead on the Core Medical Team; and lead working groups to deliver priority initiatives.
• Governance and Content Quality: Support the Promotional Materials Review Team through timely, high-quality review of derivative materials that align with scientific, ethical, and regulatory standards.
• External Engagement and Evidence Exchange: Implement and monitor KEEs/External engagement plans, run impactful advisory boards end-to-end, and ensure follow-up actions improve scientific and clinical impact.
• Congress Impact: Lead congress planning, insight-gathering frameworks, cross-functional communications, and partner with field leadership to ensure effective pull-through during and after events.
• Publication and Education Excellence: Conduct evidence publication reviews and guide Medical Education Grants Office selections to support priority data gaps and education needs.
• Patient Insight Advocacy and Capability: Facilitate the sharing of patient insights across regions and functions; partner on capability-building programs, research alliances, and tools/technology that embed patient voice in decision-making.
• Budget, Scope, and Compliance Ownership: Deliver projects within scope and budget, track spend reliably, and uphold all ethical and compliance standards in every activity.
• Support Medical plan through coordinating the development of the iMAP, execution of key projects, and tracking budget spend
• Support the Launch Readiness Reviews (LRR) by coordinating and tracking pre-launch activities and ensure timely execution of the endorsed LRR plan
• Influence the Field Engagement plan by synthesizing field insights into actionable tactics, share with the business, and modify plans as necessary
• Complete all MALT (Medical Affairs Leadership Team) directives as requested
• Support quarterly iMAP reviews at the Core Medical Team (CMT) in collaboration with the Medical Lead
• Support the Promotional Materials Review Team (PMRT) by reviewing derivative content
• Provide cross functional coverage by supporting the Medical Lead on the CMT and lead WGs as appropriate
• Responsible for implementing and monitoring KEEs/External engagement plans and follow-up to ensure maximise engagement and impact
• Implement effective Advisory Boards by independently setting meeting objectives, discussion guides and managing communications with vendors
• Implement Medical projects while staying within scope and budget
• Lead congress planning activities, insight gathering, communications and partner with Field leadership to ensure pull through at the event
• Conduct evidence publication reviews and Medical Education Grants Office (MEGO) selection
• Facilitates patient insight knowledge sharing by raising awareness about patient insight strategies and activities with regions, countries and allied functions
• Helps build patient insight capability by working closely with Medical Affairs colleagues on research alliance initiatives, capability development programs, and tools/technology initiatives
• Responsible to adhering to all required ethical and compliance standards as determined by the organisation and/or market within the role operates

Benefits

• qualified retirement programs
• paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
• health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree