Patient Advocacy Specialist/Manager

компания "астразенека" patient advocacy specialist/manager at astrazeneca, we recognize that patients should be at the center of everything we do in specific and measurable ways, from discovery science through prevention, awareness, diagnosis and treatment. we are evolving our ways of working to address the current and future needs of patients, so we are better able to help answer those needs. we are currently recruiting for a patient advocacy manager to support our company’s commitment to working closely with patients and patient groups to understand how disease impacts daily living, enrich our understanding of the healthcare environment, and meet the needs of people living with chronical conditions. this role is critical to support astrazeneca’s commitment to the patient advocacy community and the work we do to advance patient awareness and engagement in their healthcare journey, reform healthcare policies and ensure access to earlier diagnosis and most appropriate care of chronical diseases. what you’ll do as a patient advocacy manager, you will be responsible for supporting communications with pags and internally with cross-functional team, coordinate external event activities and projects. reporting to the patient advocacy lead you will: proactively manage our patient advocacy group relationships with our advocacy partners work cross functionally with internal colleagues and provide support to cross-functional team (medical, marketing, pr, market access, gr) to align our advocacy activities to brand strategies, identifying opportunities to deliver on shared goals implement initiatives and programs that engage and align patient groups in support of patient education, engagement and reform of health system policies that improve patients’ access to timely and appropriate treatment in partnership with cross-functional team, specifically, policy colleagues. deliver impactful disease awareness campaigns and external events across a range of therapy areas aligned to strategic aims prepare presentations and positions papers to increase and strength patient advocacy impact inside astrazeneca coordinate sponsorship and donation requests responsible for document management and monitoring process ensure compliance across all functions maintain the highest standards of patient care, focusing on ethical conduct and company values additional duties and responsibilities as assigned experience and capabilities biopharmaceutical industry and/or healthcare industry experience required experience liaising with patient advocacy groups and an understanding of their aims and objectives proven track record of delivering impactful campaigns and events involving patients and patient groups business acumen and an understanding of the aims and objectives of the pharmaceutical industry understanding of the iapm code as it relates to pharmaceutical companies and interactions with patients and patient advocacy groups understanding of health policy and how to impact change excellent written skills, including enhanced presentation skills management skills: ability to coordinate project teams involving cross-functional interaction and interaction with vendors and external stakeholders problem solving – ability to resolve conflict and deal with a wide range of complex problems independently high ethical standards and an appreciation of local compliance requirements fluent english would be an advantage