Lead, Global Field Medical Excellence

Astellas Canada – Lead, Global Field Medical Excellence

At Astellas, we strive to become a cutting-edge, value-driven life science innovator. This means working at the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

What sets us apart is our focus on patients, our pioneering innovation, our collaborative culture, and the passion of our talented people.

Making a positive impact on patients' lives is the purpose behind everything we do. At Astellas, we are relentless in our pursuit of scientific progress and in tackling unmet medical needs, demonstrated by our legacy in oncology, overactive bladder and transplant and our impressive pipeline in women's health, blindness and regeneration, genetic regulation, immuno-oncology, mitochondria and targeted protein degradation.

About Us

We are a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of more than 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries around the world. We are in the Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.

In Canada, we are growing to meet the exciting opportunities realized by our legacy brands and rich pipeline of innovative treatments.

We are looking for candidates who will thrive in our entrepreneurial and empowering environment where talent and leadership flourish. Do your values align with our Astellas Way - patient focus, ownership, results, openness, and integrity? Then we would love to hear from you.

From the first day in role, everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. We nurture exceptional relationships with our employees to allow them to thrive, foster innovation, and deliver exceptional business results. We work to create a culture where our people feel empowered to pursue brave ideas and ambitious outcomes, to have the confidence to be accountable for a higher standard of performance and embody a competitive and solutions-oriented mindset.

Our expertise, science and technology make us a pharma company. Our open and diverse culture is what makes us uniquely Astellas.

Astellas Pharma Canada (APCA) is currently searching for a Lead, Global Field Medical Excellence.

Description:

As the Lead, Global Field Medical Excellence (FME), you will provide global strategic leadership to drive the success of the field medical organization by ensuring the highest standards for, and delivery of, impactful external scientific engagements with a consistent approach worldwide. Your primary focus will be to elevate global field medical capabilities through development and execution of global programs and initiatives in collaboration with regional field medical leaders and other internal stakeholders. Provides input into defining and coordinates the core field medical strategy in partnership with field medical teams in the regions. Establishes and maintains quality standards and oversees consistent and efficient implementation across field medical teams worldwide. You must understand industry best practices/trends as well as emerging technologies while considering local regulatory requirements to deploy scalable and sustainable global solutions to enable a best in class, value-driven field medical organization.

Essential Job Duties:

Leadership:

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on the Global FME Dedicated Core Team to establish and maintain high-quality standards and ensure consistent, compliant implementation worldwide.
• Responsible for the coordination and quality oversight between field medical operations in the regions in support of the overall MA strategy and business objectives
• Provides thought leadership and coordinates regional thought leadership and subject matter expertise, bringing external environmental insights to FME to support field medical performance across Astellas regions.

Functional Strategy:

• Ensures adherence to the FME Dedicated Core Team agreed strategy and deliverables and supports the evolution of the field medical organization forward with innovative thinking to evolve and meet stakeholder needs.
• Support development and implementation of core foundational functional strategies across all regions spanning scientific engagement models, insights, medical expert engagement planning, account planning, coaching framework, field impact assessment/benchmarking, field medical functional onboarding, clinical trial support framework, omnichannel, etc.
• Owns driving implementation of global standards and process for FME, supporting the Head, Global FME:
• Addresses key region and global stakeholder issues related to implemented global processes.
• Identifies opportunities to improve core processes in MA Standards for FME based on qualitative feedback and metrics analysis.
• Serves as business lead for process improvement initiatives related to subject area.
• Proactive application of risk mitigation strategies that minimize corporate risk in partnership with Global Quality and Risk Management

Capabilities:

• Actively promotes a culture of continuous improvement through the development and roll out of training programs; and drives a coaching discipline that engenders a culture of excellence and medical value in field medical activities.
• In conjunction with MA training functions globally and regionally and regional FME leaders, assesses and supports development of relevant trainings to enhance field medical capabilities on role-specific skills and relevant systems for field medical.
• Contribute to and/or lead development of enduring materials and programs (e.g. live sessions, LMS modules, work aids, etc.) in collaboration with MA Training teams to optimize end user onboarding and adoption of new and existing field medical platforms, processes, and capabilities.
• Supports global Field Medical Platforms Leads, Data Solutions and Analytics and Innovation Capability and Enablement teams for relevant field medical systems/processes and ensures cross-regional coordination and alignment to field medical priorities.

Value & Impact:

• Responsible for the coordination and worldwide consistency of field medical activities and reporting
• Proactively identifies best practices and sharing across geographies of field medical activities.
• Supports local and regional adherence to global processes by working closely with regional FME leaders, process improvement and QA functions.
• Creates alignment and supports regional monitoring, reporting and quality improvement of key performance metrics for field medical.

External Engagement:

• Enables implementation of standardized approach for external engagement that results in efficient and impactful scientific engagements by field medical.
• Coordinates and works closely with Medical Affairs leaders (e.g. regional FME Leads, regional Field Medical Team Leads, Platform Leads, Learning and Capabilities Lead, Operations Leads, TA leads, CMT members, etc.) to drive excellence in external scientific engagement activities and insights communication.

Internal Partnerships & Collaboration:

• Provides subject matter expertise and consultation to MA regions with a focus on strategic and tactical operational planning and execution in field medical activities spanning scientific engagement models, insights, medical expert engagement planning, account planning, coaching framework, field impact assessment/benchmarking, field medical onboarding, clinical trial support framework, omnichannel, etc.
• Collaborates with Medical Affairs colleagues across geographies (e.g. Medical Communications, regional FME leads, regional Field Medical Team Leads, Platform Leads, Learning and Capabilities Leads, Operations Leads, TA Leads, Data Solutions & Analytics, global Evidence Generation Operations, and Health Economics and Outcomes Research).
• Engages cross-functionally with non-MA departments, such as Human Resources, Ethics & Compliance, Regulatory, Legal, Clinical Development, Pharmacovigilance and Commercial as needed to advance FME initiatives in support of local brand team needs.

Innovation:

• Attends relevant industry meetings to stay abreast with current best practices and new innovations in relevant MA activities for FME.