Therapeutic Area Lead, Gastrointestinal Cancers, Swiss Marketing Company

• 10 July 2026 • 100% • Indefinite duration • Baar Therapeutic Area Lead, Gastrointestinal Cancers, Swiss Marketing Company Are you ready to lead the medical strategy for gastrointestinal (GI) oncology and transform evidence into better patient outcomes across Switzerland? Based in Baar, you will take full responsibility for the GI portfolio, pipeline, and launch through to market optimization, ensuring our science reaches physicians and patients at the moments that matter. Reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs in Oncology, you will unite a cross-functional GI team around a clear scientific agenda and consistent execution, ensuring strong collaboration with other therapeutic areas while credibly representing the GI portfolio to internal and external stakeholders. Your leadership will translate insights into strategic choices that generate measurable impact for patients and the company while building trust with experts, institutions, and healthcare system partners. Do you thrive at the intersection of science, strategy, and execution? In this senior medical leadership role, you will inspire a high-performing team, navigate complex care pathways, and define a bold, data-driven direction for GI cancer care in Switzerland. Missions: • Medical Strategy and Planning: Define and lead the GI medical strategy in Switzerland, developing and delivering an integrated medical plan aligned with global, regional, and local priorities throughout the lifecycle, from pipeline to launch through to market optimization, focused on measurable results. • Ensure strong alignment and collaboration between the cross-functional GI team and with other therapeutic areas to support a consistent scientific agenda and effective execution. • Scientific Leadership and Launch Excellence: Provide scientific leadership across the GI portfolio, covering evidence generation, launch readiness, market structuring, and stakeholder engagement to accelerate appropriate adoption. • Evidence Generation and Partnerships: Support local evidence generation via clinical trials, real-world data, external research, and collaborations with study groups and academic partners to fill critical data gaps and inform practice. • Team Leadership and Skill Development: Lead and develop the GI medical team, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and accountable culture through coaching and skill development; creating clarity, focus, and agility as priorities evolve. • Represent the GI portfolio credibly to internal and external stakeholders, building trust and ensuring consistent scientific leadership across the ecosystem. • Corporate Collaboration and Impact: Act as a corporate leader by translating scientific insights into strategic choices and execution that produce impact for patients and the company; collaborate closely with Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Diagnostics, Patient Advocacy, and Clinical Operations teams to align plans and the GI Franchise vision. • External Engagement and Education: Build trusted partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem - including scientific experts, multidisciplinary care teams, professional societies, and patient organizations - and shape the external scientific narrative via relevant, balanced, compliant, and impactful medical education. • Care Pathway Transformation: Work effectively across complex GI pathways, involving surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, and other stakeholders to improve coordination, diagnosis, and quality of care; identify and pursue care transformation opportunities in Switzerland. • Governance and Compliance: Ensure that all activities comply with local regulatory requirements as well as AstraZeneca's Local and Global Policies and Directives, integrating best practices and ethical standards into every interaction. When we bring unexpected teams together in the same room, we unlock bold thinking capable of inspiring life-changing medicines. In-person work provides us with the necessary platform to connect, work quickly, and challenge perceptions. That is why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week in the office. But that does not mean we are not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world. Essential Requirements: • Advanced scientific degree in a relevant field (MD, PhD, PharmD or equivalent) • More than 7 years of experience in Medical Affairs in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with previous experience in key Medical Affairs pillars, including evidence generation, scientific engagement, launch readiness, and cross-functional collaboration • Proven experience in oncology, ideally with exposure to GI cancers • Previous leadership experience, including direct people management and/or leading a therapeutic area, franchise, or major cross-functional agenda • Demonstrated ability to define a strategy and translate it into solid execution and measurable results • Strong ability to engage and influence in complex multidisciplinary care environments • Demonstrated aptitude to di