Therapy Area Manager - Rare Disease (Lithuania)

About the role

AstraZeneca is looking for a Therapy Area Manager for Rare Diseases in Lithuania. You will combine brand management, customer engagement and business planning for an assigned portfolio, working with the Baltic team, Market Access, Finance, Regulatory and Supply Chain. The goal is to help address barriers in rare disease care.

Key responsibilities

• Brand planning and disease awareness: own brand and activity plans, priorities and budgets; use customer insights and patient journey mapping to find awareness, diagnosis and referral gaps; deliver local campaigns and materials, including digital initiatives, agency coordination, approvals and outcome reviews.
• Forecasting and budgets: monitor markets, competitors and sales; maintain commercial forecasts and demand inputs; reconcile sales and stock with Finance and Supply Chain; track spending, highlight risks and opportunities and update the business strategy.
• Customer engagement and account planning: build specialist-centre and healthcare stakeholder relationships through regular field engagement; implement account plans, meetings, congress activities and sponsorships; share patient-pathway and access insights with the Medical Team and external experts.
• Launch readiness: coordinate commercial preparation for new products, indications and formulations, including customer activities and materials, and align funding pathways, demand and availability with functional owners.
• Compliance and execution: follow applicable laws, industry standards and AstraZeneca procedures, complete approvals, contracts and activity records and follow cross-functional actions through to delivery.

Required profile

• Pharmaceutical marketing or sales experience, translating strategy into customer activities.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical ethics, compliance and responsible customer engagement.
• Bachelor's degree in a bioscience, management or marketing field.
• Proficiency in English.
• Desirable: MBA or equivalent, cross-country or multicultural collaboration experience, leadership of cross-functional, launch or disease-awareness projects including digital campaigns, rare disease experience and stakeholder relationships in Lithuania, and understanding of local market access dynamics and institutional decision-making.

Required skills

• Communication and relationship-building skills, with scientific curiosity.
• Cross-functional project coordination, prioritization and follow-through.
• Ability to work with market data, forecasts and budgets.

Salary range: 63,131.20 - 94,696.80 EUR gross annual.