Job Description

Private Healthcare Strategic Lead
London
Competitive Salary and Benefits
Closing date: 9th November 2025
Introduction to role
Are you ready to lead the transformation of AstraZeneca UK's private oncology business?
The Private Healthcare Strategic Lead will drive the strategic optimisation of AstraZeneca's private oncology business, providing expert leadership across supply chain, commercial, medical, and policy interfaces. This role is central to identifying and capitalising on opportunities within the complex private healthcare landscape, being responsible for governance on parallel trade and grey trade, and ensuring alignment for both strategic and operational delivery. Acting as a key conduit between external private sector stakeholders and internal AZ teams, including analytics, commercial launch, and medical functions, the Strategic Lead will deliver insight-driven strategies and tactics to maximise market access, commercial performance, and launch excellence. They will also take a lead role in developing and completing commercial constructs for self-pay/out-of-pocket markets, supporting pathway optimization, and implementing targeted non-promotional campaigns.
Accountabilities:
Strategic Roadmap Development:
Lead the development, operationalization, and governance of a roadmap to optimise private market performance, collaborating closely with the Head of Private Partnerships.
Parallel Trade and Grey Trade Governance:
Employ strong governance and operational solutions to eliminate grey trade activity and ensure UK-credited parallel trade, bringing insights from analytics and supply chain partners.
Insight-Driven Execution:
Liaise and integrate with analytics, medical, and launch excellence teams to align on key tactics and ensure execution of best-practice and consistent delivery, including for alliance brands.
Market Opportunity Identification:
Analyse market bottlenecks and emerging opportunities, synthesising insights across business intelligence, regulatory, medical, commercial, and market access teams.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Foster and uphold alliances at enterprise and local levels with business counterparts such as PMIs, private healthcare providers, and affiliated organisations. Act as a conduit for high-quality, aligned, targeted non-promotional campaigns.
Commercial Constructs and Self-Pay Market Development:
Lead the design of commercial arrangements and innovative self-pay/out-of-pocket solutions for situations where public or private insurance access is unavailable.
Horizon Scanning and Pathway Optimization:
Assist medical teams in horizon scanning activities and pathway development to improve patient access to AZ medicines in the private sector.
Best-Practice Sharing and Alliance Coordination:
Share insights and best practice across franchise, field commercial, and partnership teams to strengthen market understanding and delivery.
Essential Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Proven ability to develop and drive enterprise wide strategies as well as hands-on delivery in a matrixed environment.
• Deep understanding of private market dynamics, drivers, bottlenecks, and commercial opportunity assessment.
• Significant experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with a large proportion in the oncology market; extensive experience in strategic, commercial, and private market roles;
• Advanced analytical and insight generation capability; understanding of supply chain, governance, and commercial mechanisms
• Detailed knowledge of AstraZeneca's existing and future oncology pipeline and competitor landscape to advise strategic decision-making and tactical execution.
• Skilled at engaging with collaborators, customers, interested parties, participants, partners, and team members for commercial negotiation with private payers, providers, insurers, and corporate partners.
• Detailed understanding of ABPI code, compliance requirements, and governance mechanisms to mitigate risk and ensure operational integrity.
• Demonstrated capability in discovering innovative solutions for entering new markets, business structures, and implementing marketing initiatives.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Higher Business or Scientific Degree
• Cross-Therapy Area (TA) knowledge including policy and regulatory expertise
• Line management experience;
• Experience running large-scale programs in private healthcare markets; hands-on experience with complex alliance or partnership models

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite 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, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. 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?
As Leaders within Oncology, our ability to effectively and creatively market our products and lead our business has a meaningful impact. It powers our business to lead the way for the industry and to impact more lives, making a difference to those living with cancer. Working across our broad and innovative pipeline, we fuse our business approach and scientific knowledge to bring transformative medicines and novel treatments to those who need it the most.
At AstraZeneca UK, we are committed to delivering against three missions:

• Accelerating the position of the UK as a global centre of excellence in life sciences
• Redefining healthcare through fast and equitable access to the most effective medicines, high quality care
• Delivering sustainable leadership that prioritises healthy people, society and planet

Our head office in Pancras Square offers us the strongest possible platform to transform the lives of patients, as the country's leading biopharmaceutical company. It brings AstraZeneca UK closer to our customers, partners and collaborators in the UK's healthcare environment, as well as develop greater collaboration with the wider AstraZeneca footprint.
Ready to make your mark? Apply now!
Date Posted 27-Oct-2025
Closing Date 09-Nov-2025
Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

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