Director, Medical Market Lead, APAC

The Medical Market Lead (MML) is a geographically aligned strategic leadership role to enhance the collaboration between WW teams and the Markets. The MML is both a liaison and catalyst, bridging WW and Regional Market medical teams, to drive alignment and a cohesive focus to deliver on disease area objectives. The MML is also accountable for embedding market launch excellence capability aligned with enterprise launch expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the bi-directional communication between WW and Regional Market medical teams, escalating needs and evidence gaps, through appropriate forums and channels.

• Proactively identify and remove respective Market roadblocks by triaging communication between WW functions and respective Market medical teams.

• Provide strategic expertise, guidance, and tailored support to the respective Markets, to ensure effective local execution.

• Foster Market collaborations and sharing the implementation if best practices across geographical boundaries.

• Afford visibility to Market data gaps and evidence needs and provide guidance on impact to Integrated Evidence Plans (IEP) and disease area medical plans.

• Raise opportunities for collaborative studies and innovative platforms aligned with prioritized evidence gaps to WW disease area Medical, Medical Evidence Generation, Scientific Collaborations & Alliances Leads and the Digital Health team.

• Establish strong relationships and networks with WW cross-functional partners such WW Tumor and Assets Leads, WW Medical Communications teams, WW Commercial & Access leads, Field Medical Excellence (FME), Medical Evidence Generation (MEG) and Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) to be a reliable and knowledgeable resource and ensure a seamless interface with respective Markets.

• Partner closely with Disease Area Medical Product Leads (MPLs) to ensure AIMS deliverables are executed across the Markets.

• Develop and evolve dashboards, scorecards, executive reports and Market team resourcing maps in collaboration with Medical Analytics.

• Build and maintain Market Medical Launch Excellence capability complementing other enterprise initiatives to ensure Market launch readiness.

• Lead identifying respective Market launch needs, distilling key risks and opportunities, and escalating them to the WW Medical Launch Readiness Forum.

• Ensure execution against launch playbook by working with respective Markets, WW disease area leads, and other WW partners. This includes oversighting the process and collating launch KPIs.