Medical Manager/ Lung Cancer

AstraZeneca plc; Xico; Hybrid; MXN 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca plc is seeking an Oncology Medical Manager in CDMX with a strong background in Medical Affairs. You will develop and deliver medical plans, guide RWE projects, and align medical activities with strategic business goals.

Part of a cross-functional team, you will mentor junior colleagues, contribute to marketing direction with medical expertise, and drive high-quality scientific communications to support patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Essential: Scientific degree or master’s degree in a scientific discipline.
• Essential: Strategic thinking and strategic planning skills.
• Essential: Extensive experience of Medical Affairs in pharma, 4+ years in field medical affairs.
• Essential: Strong understanding of medical, clinical development, and regulatory requirements.
• Essential: Strong scientific skills, medical communication and science acumen.
• Essential: Excellent project management and presentation skills.
• Essential: Extensive experience in stakeholder management and ability to interact with diverse stakeholders.
• Essential: Understanding of business principles and pharmaceutical industry dynamics.
• Essential: Advanced analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Essential: Solid understanding of local regulation in medical, clinical development, and regulatory requirements.
• Essential: Ability to work effectively and lead a matrix cross-functional environment.
• Essential: Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead medical strategy and contribute to medical plans and activities.
• Design, implement and oversee real-world evidence (RWE) projects and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Communicate RWE findings to inform medical and commercial strategies and healthcare decision-making.
• Establish AstraZeneca as a scientific leader through proactive medical inputs.
• Lead educational initiatives and provide scientific expertise to integrate new medical advancements.
• Showcase the impact of initiatives through measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Adopt agile partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem for scalable patient outcomes.
• Coordinate with field medical teams to align with Medical Affairs strategies.
• Provide regular updates on delivery versus plan and potential mitigations.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

Scientific degree

Master’s degree in science

Job description

Oncology Medical Manager

Location: CDMX

Hybrid work

A Medical Manager develops the local Medical Plan and contributes to the local business strategic and operational planning for defined therapy area. They will develop and deliver pre-launch and post-launch medical plans and activities.

They will ensure that all local medical requirements are met for all brand/TA material and will also use medical expertise to contribute to the marketing direction of the brand/TA. Will be recognized as a medical expert within the marketing company and will often guide and mentor other junior Medical Affairs colleagues.

A Medical Manager leads in the delivery of operational excellence, impact, and efficiencies through measurable outcomes and a continuous improvement approach. Communicate on the quality delivery and value of the Medical Affairs team with good understanding of the internal business ecosystem (strategy, model, finances) and act as a key member of the local Medical Affairs team that contributes to the planning and execution of Medical Affairs strategies, working closely with the local medical and cross‑functional teams.

Typical Accountabilities

Medical strategy and clinical input

• Drive Medically led/co‑led, based initiatives, on an identified gap in collaboration with CFTs, that contributes to an overarching plan mapped to drive positive patient outcomes.
• Leverage medical expertise to design, implement, and oversee real‑world evidence (RWE) projects. Identifies reliable suitable data sources and ensure the scientific rigor and integrity of real‑world studies.
• Responsible for interpreting and communicating the findings from RWE projects with a strong focus on translating RWE into actionable insights that can internally inform medical and commercial strategies and externally ultimately improve patient outcomes and inform healthcare decision‑making.
• Establish AstraZeneca as a scientific leader through proactive medical inputs.
• Lead educational initiatives, developing clinical support tools, and providing scientific expertise to support the integration of new medical advancements into clinical practice.
• Puts in place measures to showcase the impact of initiatives.
• Agile adoption of innovation through win‑win partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem that are scalable and can enable sustainable patient outcomes.

Strategic Planning and Delivery:

• Work with the field medical team to ensure the Field Medical Strategic Plan (FMSP) and Field Medical activities are prioritized and aligned with the Medical Affairs Strategic Plans.
• Ensure the Field Medical Plan includes an Integrated Engagement plan with an appropriate ratio of traditional and non‑traditional stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Medical Affairs Team and cross functional team to provide input to medical and product strategies.
• Drives prioritization of activities across the team to ensure appropriate focus on portfolio priorities.
• Identify opportunities and initiate discussion potential strategic, scalable & sustainable clinical practice transformations initiatives that can impact on patient access to quality care.
• Ensures Digital and innovation / technology are implemented as an enabler for patient centric solutions and effectively contributes to enhancing equitable access to people in assigned accounts / clinics / healthcare systems.
• Leverage technology, available data / dashboards to drive data‑driven decisions to support internal discussions and external engagements.
• Contribute on field and external stakeholder insights and perspectives in medical and brand internal strategic discussions and communicate internally on actionable items as appropriate.
• Provide regular updates to the medical team and broader organization on delivery versus plan, variance to plan, proposed mitigation with emphasis on internal & external strategic and patient impact.
• Ensures own knowledge of best practices and new relevant developments is kept up to date with understanding of its relevance to the team(s).

Essential

• Scientific degree or master’s degree in a scientific discipline
• Strategic thinking and strategic planning skills
• Extensive experience of Medical Affairs function within a pharmaceutical industry. More than 4 years of experience in field medical affairs function.
• Strong understanding of medical, clinical development, and regulatory requirements
• Strong scientific skills, medical communication and science acumen
• Excellent Project Management and presentation skills
• Extensive experience in stakeholder management and the ability to interact and manage a range of stakeholders both internally and externally
• Understanding of business principles and pharmaceutical industry dynamics
• Advanced level analytical and conceptual thinking
• Solid understanding of local regulation and medical, clinical development, and regulatory requirements
• Ability to work effectively and leader a matrix cross‑functional environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Doctoral degree in a scientific discipline ( , ,
• Experience in clinical or pre‑clinical research and knowledge of therapuetic area disease state and treatment.
• Experience in basic research, drug discovery and drug development.
• Understanding of multiple aspects within Medical Affairs department
• Ecosystem scaled project experience
• Evidence generation experience
• People management

If you´re strategic to achieve the company objectives working in collaboration with a cross functional team, developing yourself and helping to develop others through your leadership AstraZeneca is your place

Date Posted

05-nov-2026