Brand Manager – SCLC Oncology, 12 month Secondment/FTC

Brand Manager – SCLC Oncology

12 Month Secondment/Fixed Term Contract

Region: London St Pancras

Competitive Salary & Benefits

The UK OBU IO Lung team is seeking a strategic, driven, and collaborative Brand Manager focused on Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) 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. With SCLC spanning multiple indications across different points in the treatment pathway, you will support establishing AZ’s IO portfolio in this space - managing multiple indications, identifying synergies and driving launch readiness - while bringing the cross‑functional team on the journey. 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 pre-launch and in-market indications, as well as the innovative tactical delivery. 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

• Experience working in an alliance

• 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 21-Aug-2026

Closing Date 04-Sept-2026

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