US Medical Early Asset Director– Insights

About this role

US Medical Early Asset Director– Insights Are you ready to turn ideas into life-changing medicines? At AstraZeneca, we are committed to addressing the unmet needs of patients worldwide through scientific innovation. In this role, you will play a crucial role in leveraging our scientific capabilities to positively impact patients' lives. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, US Medical Early Asset Team Lead, you will be part of a team focused on the development of ambitious US medical strategies for our early pipeline

This is an opportunity to seize, design, and influence across a complex matrix system to ensure US needs are integrated into global development plans. Accountabilities: Director, US Medical Early Asset – Insights will own US insight generation and decision analytics for pipeline assets from late discovery through Phase 2. You will translate ambiguity into clear, evidence-based recommendations by integrating secondary analytics, custom market research, competitive intelligence, epidemiology, and early forecasting

Partnering closely with Global/US Commercial, Medical, Clinical Development, Market Access, HEOR, and Finance, you will shape target product profiles, influence trial design, pressure-test differentiation hypotheses, and inform investment decisions at stage gates. Key Responsibilities Insight Strategy and Roadmap: Define the US insights learning plan across asset stages; prioritize critical unknowns and decision points, and map research/analytics to governance milestones. Target Product Profile and Asset Shaping: Pressure-test TPP elements (endpoints, attributes, device/format, administration setting, line of therapy, subsegments) via research and rapid experiments; recommend trade-offs to maximize US value

Primary Market Research: Design and lead payer/HCP/patient qualitative and quantitative studies (concept tests, message/value testing, conjoint/DTU, ethnography, discrete choice, max-diff) to refine positioning and evidence needs.

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