Brand Manager – NSCLC Oncology
About this opportunity
Brand Manager – NSCLC Oncology
Region: London St Pancras
Competitive Salary & Benefits
The UK OBU IO Lung team is seeking a strategic, driven, and collaborative Brand Manager focused on NSCLC to play a key role in our IO portfolio. You will work cross‑functionally to develop data‑ and insight‑driven, prioritised brand strategies and deliver innovative operational plans that achieve business and patient outcomes. This role covers one of our priority indications within a highly competitive market. Our high‑performance, high‑energy culture enables agile, insight‑driven work and best‑in‑class customer engagement that makes a real difference for patients living with lung cancer.
Accountabilities:
Your role will involve the development of localised brand plans for in-market indications, as well as thinking about portfolio synergies and strategies. You will use insights to drive tactical ideation to deliver engaging, compliant tactics across channels. You will manage the asset approval and compliance process with cross-functional partners and engage externally with key stakeholders, influencers, and decision-makers. You will use insights and performance data to optimise impact of tactical execution.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Degree qualified
Significant pharmaceutical commercial experience with a strong performance track record
Proven experience successfully launching pharmaceutical products
Creative multichannel marketing capabilities together with rigorous commercial business sense
Oncology experience
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Strong knowledge of the UK market and the NHS environment
Lung oncology experience
ABPI signatory status
Why AstraZeneca?
We’re all here to make an impact – to achieve our bold ambition of eliminating cancer as a cause of death. In the Oncology Business Unit, we relentlessly follow the science, challenging the status quo to deliver more effective treatments to patients in need. Our commitment means we purposefully push back the limits of knowledge to change the practice of medicine. To ensure no patient is left behind, no matter what stage of disease. We are brave disruptors – entrepreneurial, courageous and pioneering in our approach. Here you have the opportunity to step up, take personal accountability and lead changes in our ever-evolving environment.
At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare!
If you ready to transform the lives of people living with cancer by leading in patient experience and care join us now! Together we can make this the greatest decade ever in the fight against cancer.
Date Posted
29-Jul-2026
Closing Date
13-Aug-2026
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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