Espoo, Uusimaa, Suomi / Finland
Hybrid
Are you ready to lead a national franchise that reimagines cancer care and delivers measurable impact for patients and the health system? This role puts you at the helm of a therapy-area franchise with the mandate to set direction, own performance and turn science into real-world outcomes. You will guide strategy across the full pathway, from earlier detection to long-term care, ensuring our innovations reach the right patients at the right time.
Our AstraZeneca Nordic Marketing Company employs around 550 people and has offices located in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, and Espoo. AstraZeneca Nordic is a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and aims to improve the lives of millions of people. This is an area where you are free to be more – you are encouraged to challenge traditional ways and test your curiosity. We drive innovative science, deliver key launches, build close collaboration and partnerships within health care.
Your role
As the business leader, you will orchestrate Sales, Marketing, Medical, Market Access and Corporate Affairs to align clear priorities and execution. You will translate insights and data into decisive action, build partnerships that unlock access and practice change, and deliver launch excellence across an ambitious pipeline. How would you design and lead a national plan that accelerates adoption of high-value diagnostics and therapies while improving the patient’s journey?
Accountabilities
· Set strategy and own performance: Lead the national franchise, portfolio strategy and P&L, ensuring disciplined forecasting, resource allocation, budget management and lifecycle planning.
· Turn insight into action: Convert customer, market and performance insights into focused account plans, engagement strategies and measurable outcomes.
· Shape better care: Integrate diagnostics and other high-medical-value solutions to improve patient outcomes and differentiate the care pathway.
· Lead healthcare-system engagement: Understand patient pathways, decision-making and reimbursement dynamics, building trusted relationships with healthcare professionals, experts, payers and decision-makers.
· Build impactful partnerships: Develop collaborations and data-driven initiatives that remove barriers, expand access and support healthcare-system transformation.
· Aligning the enterprise: Bring Sales, Marketing, Medical, Market Access and Corporate Affairs together around shared priorities, governance and accountability.
· Deliver launch excellence: Lead the successful launch of new products, indications and in-market opportunities, using digital, omnichannel, data and AI-enabled approaches to drive performance.
· Champion an agile culture: Promote commercial excellence, innovation, trust, ethical conduct and continuous improvement across the franchise.
· Collaborate across borders: Partner with Nordic, regional and global colleagues to share expertise, leverage synergies and deliver locally relevant impact.
· Lead and develop people: For Franchise Head roles, coach and develop direct reports and own people processes. For Franchise Lead roles, lead through influence across the matrix while remaining accountable for franchise outcomes.
Essential Skills/Experience
· Relevant expertise: University degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Business or a related discipline, combined with significant pharmaceutical or healthcare experience.
· Commercial leadership: Proven success leading national businesses, franchises or portfolios, with accountability for strategy, execution and results.
· Cross-functional influence: Strong experience aligning and motivating teams across Sales, Marketing, Medical, Market Access and Corporate Affairs. Direct people-leadership experience is essential for Franchise Head roles.
· Customer and market understanding: Strong knowledge of the local healthcare system, stakeholder landscape, reimbursement and market access environment.
· Launch and brand leadership: Demonstrated success in launch planning and execution, brand leadership and/or strategic account management in competitive markets.
· External engagement: Confidence engaging senior healthcare professionals, experts, payers and healthcare decision-makers.
· Strategic and financial acumen: Strong analytical, project-management and financial skills, with the ability to turn insights and data into decisive action.
· Communication and collaboration: Excellent influencing, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to lead in a matrix environment.
· Compliance and language skills: Fluency in the local language and English, together with a strong understanding of ethical, compliance and governance requirements.
Desirable Skills/Experience
· Therapy area expertise: Experience in the relevant therapy or disease area.
· Solutions experience: Exposure to diagnostics, high-medical-value solutions or disease-management initiatives.
· Broader healthcare perspective: Experience in Medical Affairs, Market Access, Government Affairs or healthcare partnerships.
· System transformation: Experience leading healthcare-system projects, transforming-care initiatives or data-generation programmes.
· International collaboration: Experience working in Nordic, regional or global matrix organisations.
· Advanced qualification: MBA, PhD or another relevant advanced degree.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
I&D
We are proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration! Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.
Why AstraZeneca
Here, you will help turn cutting-edge science into standards of care by shaping how innovations are found, launched and scaled across the full patient journey. We bring unexpected teams together to co-create solutions, empower rapid decision-making and invest with focus where it matters most to patients. You will work with a broad, evolving pipeline and modern commercial tools, surrounded by colleagues who value kindness alongside ambition, challenge thinking with data and insight, and learn fast to move faster. Your leadership will directly influence how care teams adopt precision approaches, how systems remove barriers to access, and how more people live better, longer lives.
So, what is next
If you are ready to own a national franchise, lead bold launches and partnerships, and create tangible improvements in patient care, take the next step and shape this impact with us today!
Welcome with your application, in English, latest by the 18th of November, 2026!
Where can I find out more?
Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/
Inclusion & Diversity: Inclusion and diversity
Career site: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/
Websites for Nordic Marketing Company:
Sweden: https://www.astrazeneca.se
Denmark: AstraZeneca Denmark
Norway: AstraZeneca Norway
Finland: AstraZeneca Finland
Date Posted
04-nov.-2026Closing Date
18-nov.-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
