At Astellas, we believe that nurturing exceptional relationships with our employees delivers exceptional business results.
Everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. From the first moment, Astellas will inspire you to put this ethos into practice – with a positive, agile company culture and with well-defined ethical principles, values and systems.
Everything we do is led by our company values of integrity, being patient centric, taking ownership, delivering results and communicating openly. These values are essential to Astellas relationship with its employees and now is an exciting time to join us as we continue to evolve as a cutting-edge, value driven life sciences innovator.
Purpose of the Role
- Provide strategic Medical Affairs Leadership in overseeing all MA activities / deliverables.
- Demonstrate Matrix Leadership by developing and maintaining integrated partnership with stakeholders.
- Ensure all MA Deliverables address local business needs to bring value to patients and advance the medical/scientific understanding of Astellas products to help ensure safe and appropriate use across their lifecycle.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Medical Affairs Leadership: Provides strategic leadership and direction & successful execution of all MA activities and deliverables. Serves as a recognized Medical Affairs authority by maintaining and communicating up-to-date knowledge of industry standards and practices, keeps abreast and proactively responds to market trends and/or shifts in the external medical affairs environment to predict and maximize positive impact to Astellas and Provide meaningful MA Value metrics, quality assurance controls, and operational assessment/analysis plans relevant to MA activities and deliverables.
- Departmental and People Leadership: Inspires the MA department, gains commitment to the MA value narrative and motivates them to consistently deliver a standard of excellence and superior results. Utilizes a proactive approach to attracting, hiring, developing and retaining a high-performing MA department. Supports growth and development experiences that prepares the department for broader responsibilities and creates initiatives to ensure the retention of strong performers. Provides coaching and timely feedback to ensure a productive, professional and motivated team and a highly valued work environment. Foster a culture of innovation, teamwork and accountability with the medical affairs department to ensure commitment to MA excellence.
- Matrix Leadership: Strategically leverage regional and/or global medical initiatives to meet local business needs, while maintaining an enterprise view. Maintains an integrated partnership with Medical Affairs and cross-functional colleagues to identify collaborative opportunities, ensure optimal alignment, leverage resources, and support business priorities.
- Stakeholder Engagement Leadership: Develops and support strong relationships with KEEs and other advocacy stakeholder groups and serves as Astellas key medical spokesperson with governmental agencies, regulatory bodies, professional association, special interest groups, reimbursement agencies and the healthcare community at large. Seek and identifies relevant trends in external stakeholders insights to shape MA strategies and deliverables.
- Scientific / Medical Expertise: Proactively identifies and develops necessary processes and continuous framework enhancements to ensure consistent delivery of strategic scientific/medical leadership. Maintain working knowledge of Astellas key products/disease states and educational needs across all TAs.
- Medical Governance: Ensures all medical affairs activities support Astellas commitment to integrity and delivery of the highest standard of quality and in compliance with all applicable Astellas regulations, external procedures and ethical standards. Supports the training and compliance of MA staff to ensure integrity and optimize performance, efficiency and quality
Required Qualifications:
- MD, PhD, or PharmD
- Minimum 7 years scientific/medical experience in research-based pharmaceutical industry in the areas of Medical Affairs and/or Medical Affairs & Development.
- Minimum 3 years experience working in a leadership capacity.
- Strong Working knowledge of local Regulatory/Payer/HTA bodies, ICH GCP guidelines, Industry regulations, and quality standards.
- Proven team management skills, including regional matrix leadership.
- Financial and budgetary expertise.
- Strong scientific analytical and problem-solving skills, strategic capabilities, project management, planning and organization skills with excellent communication, writing and presentation skills.
Working Environment:
- This position is based in Taiwan and will require on-site work.
- (OR) At Astellas we recognize the importance of work/life balance, and we are proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver. Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas Responsible Flexibility Guidelines.
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