Typical Accountabilities:

• Uses expertise and knowledge of disease to develop/lead disease strategy for inclusion into annual TA strategy.
• Responsible for managing the clinical development strategy and plan in the disease area.
• Provides strategic medical input to the global clinical development strategy as required
• Accountable for successful conduct and delivery of all in-scope clinical studies.
• Lead China to join global early development
• Accountable for the overall clinical, scientific content within the Clinical Project team.
• Follows important developments and trends in scientific literature, and educate the team accordingly.
• Leads scientific communication and preparation of higher level documents in the registration process
• Recognized as a scientific and opinion leader of the discipline, represents AstraZeneca and its Physicians at external events, develops and maintains contacts with opinion leaders.

People management role:

• Leads, guides, evaluates and develops the team within own area of Physicians to ensure that the area achieves its objectives and complies with all relevant regulations and laws.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to the team physicians in both technical and career development.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential

• Master degree in medical discipline or above
• Extensive experience in designing, monitoring and implementing in clinical studies and interpreting trial results
• At least 10 years overall experience in physician area in drug development in pharma industry with the ability to lead cross functional working groups and teams
• Strong therapeutic/disease area expertise
• Proven leadership promoting, motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives
• Commercial understanding
• Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical safety, reporting and surveillance processes
• Strong leadership motivating and empowering others to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives.
• Strong entrepreneurship, proactively supports functional and R&D China initiatives, takes accountability to closes the loop including the grey areas
• Courageous to do the right thing, makes critical decision and be responsible for it.

Desirable

• PhD in scientific discipline
• Extensive general medical knowledge
• Extensive knowledge of the latest technical and regulatory developments
• Operational expertise in risk management and contingency planning
• Familiarity with the latest research and thinking
• Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment
• Ability to influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
• Conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking
• Effective problem and conflict resolution skills and proven team focus
• Contributes to science with publications, including on high impact scientific journals (needed by role).