AstraZeneca

Associate Director, Speaker Program Solutions

AstraZeneca • $110K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 5+ years of professional business experience
  • Experience with vendor and budget management
  • Sales or marketing experience preferred
  • Demonstrated organizational skills in planning and implementing business plans
  • Experience working in collaborative cross-functional teams
  • Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills
  • Ability to influence without authority

Responsibilities

  • Build partnerships with Sales, Marketing, Medical, and Compliance to align educational goals
  • Define and evolve standard operating procedures for speaker programs
  • Manage field event functionality within CRM, ensuring user needs are met
  • Lead budget planning and forecasting for educational initiatives
  • Collaborate with internal teams to innovate program planning and execution
  • Oversee processes for maintaining brand speaker bureaus
  • Champion the adoption of new processes and tools for continuous improvement
  • Connect program metrics to business outcomes and translate insights into action plans

Benefits

  • Flexibility in office attendance, averaging three days a week in the office
  • Supportive team environment that encourages bold thinking and innovative ideas
  • Opportunity to influence how education impacts patient care
  • Access to resources and tools for professional development
  • Participation in a mission-driven organization focused on life-changing medicines
Full Job Description

Are you ready to shape how we educate healthcare professionals and translate brand educational objectives into impact at scale?

This role puts you at the center of how we plan, deliver, and continuously improve compliant speaker programs that help clinicians make informed decisions for their patients.

You will be the strategic partner to customer-facing leaders across Sales, Marketing, Medical, and Market Access—designing future-ready processes and engagement models while ensuring today’s programs run smoothly. Working across technology, commercial operations, brand teams, and compliance, you will balance immediate delivery with building the next wave of capability for an evolving US portfolio. Can you bring clarity to complexity, rally stakeholders, and turn best practices into measurable outcomes?

Accountabilities:

  • Stakeholder Leadership: Build trusted partnerships with Sales, Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Compliance, and external vendors to align on educational goals and enable consistent, compliant program execution.

  • Best-Practice Design: Define and evolve standard operating procedures and end-to-end ways of working across the speaker program lifecycle; establish clear KPIs that drive speed, quality, and compliance.

  • CRM and Field Event Ownership: Serve as the business owner for field event management functionality within CRM, translating user needs into robust capabilities and driving adoption across the field.

  • Budget Stewardship: Lead therapeutic area budget planning, forecasting, and performance tracking to ensure investment translates into high-value, targeted educational impact.

  • Program Innovation: Partner with internal teams and strategic vendors to shape the holistic approach to program planning, execution, and measurement—piloting new formats and scaling what works.

  • Speaker Bureau Management: Oversee processes for building and maintaining brand speaker bureaus, ensuring the right experts, governance, and capabilities are in place to meet educational objectives.

  • Change Leadership: Champion the adoption of the Speaker Program Solutions Center of Excellence, coaching teams on new processes and tools and embedding continuous improvement into daily execution.

  • Outcome Focus: Connect program metrics to business and patient outcomes, translating insights into action plans that improve reach, relevance, and compliance over time.

Essential Skills/Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree required

  • Sales or marketing experience preferred

  • 5+ years of professional business experience

  • Experience with vendor and budget management

  • Demonstrated organizational skills planning, developing, implementing, and measuring business plans

  • Experience working in collaborative cross-functional team settings

  • Strategic thinker with analytical skills

  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority

Desirable Skills/Experience:

  • Experience designing and delivering HCP speaker programs within a regulated pharmaceutical or healthcare environment

  • Strong understanding of US healthcare compliance standards and industry guidance relevant to promotional education

  • Hands-on experience with CRM and field event management platforms (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce) and related data/reporting

  • Proven ability to define KPIs and build performance dashboards that inform decision-making and continuous improvement

  • Background in commercial operations, field enablement, or medical-commercial collaboration

  • Track record in process reengineering, change management, and Center of Excellence adoption

  • Familiarity with speaker bureau governance, contracting, and vendor oversight

  • Comfort working in fast-paced, matrixed environments with multiple brands and competing priorities

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.

Why AstraZeneca:


Here, scientific rigor meets commercial excellence to improve the patient journey end to end. You will join an energised, collaborative community that brings diverse perspectives into one room to spark bold ideas, start small, and scale fast. We move with urgency, remove barriers to experimentation, and value kindness alongside ambition—because better ways of working lead to better outcomes for patients. Your work will help turn innovative medicines into meaningful change in clinical practice, with the scope to grow your influence and learn from leaders who are redefining what outstanding commercial execution looks like.

Call to Action:


If you are ready to build a future-ready speaker program capability that advances education, accelerates impact, and elevates patient care, we want to hear how you will lead the way.

Date Posted

29-Sept-2026

Closing Date

13-Oct-2026

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of prescription drugs. The company was formed in 1999 through the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group plc. AstraZeneca's products are used to treat a wide range of medical conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and diabetes. The company has operations in over 100 countries and employs more than 76,000 people worldwide. AstraZeneca is committed to developing innovative medicines that improve the health and well-being of people around the world.
Learn more about AstraZeneca
Size
83,100 employees
Market Cap
$211.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.1 billion
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+10.2%
Revenue
$26.6 billion
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