Position: Brand Manager, Customer Engagement
Location: London, UK
Competitive Salary & Excellent Company Benefits
Applications Closing Date: 22 October 2026
Introduction to the Role
Are you passionate about creating meaningful customer experiences that drive adoption, advocacy, and business impact?
As a Brand Manager, Customer Engagement within AstraZeneca Haematology, you will play a critical role in translating national brand strategy into high-impact customer and account engagement plans. Working closely with sales, medical, oncology business excellence, and insights & analytics teams, you will ensure the right customers receive the right message through the right channels at the right time.
You will act as a core member of key account management teams, helping bring national campaigns to life through tailored engagement strategies, advocacy initiatives, and customer-focused programmes. By continuously monitoring performance, optimising customer journeys, and capturing real-world insight, you will help shape both local execution and future national strategy.
If you are energised by customer insight, omnichannel engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and driving measurable business impact, we would love to hear from you.
Accountabilities
Customer Engagement Strategy & Activation
- Act as a core member of key account management teams, translating national strategy, customer insight, and account objectives into targeted engagement plans, advocacy initiatives, and customer-focused programmes.
- Design, deploy, and continuously optimise customer engagement journeys for priority customer segments and accounts, working closely with Sales teams to enhance customer engagement, advocacy, and progression along the adoption journey.
- Lead the development and implementation of customer engagement activities across personal and non-personal channels, including peer-to-peer programmes, digital engagement initiatives, third-party media activation, local asset adaptation, and advocacy activation.
- Capture and synthesise field, customer, and account insights, identifying opportunities, barriers, and unmet needs, and translate these into actionable recommendations that inform national strategy, messaging, campaigns, and future customer engagement approaches.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance
- Build strong partnerships across Sales, Medical, Oncology Business Excellence, and Brand teams to deliver integrated and customer-centric engagement strategies.
- Manage external agencies, media partners, and engagement vendors to ensure high-quality delivery of customer engagement activities aligned to agreed objectives.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals and other external stakeholders, where appropriate and in partnership with Sales and Medical colleagues, to inform customer-engagement approaches and support customer-focused initiatives.
- Deliver customer engagement activities within agreed budgets, timelines, and performance expectations.
- Ensure all customer engagement activities comply with AstraZeneca governance requirements, internal policies, and the ABPI Code of Practice.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Degree-level qualification in a scientific, life-sciences, business, marketing, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Significant commercial experience within oncology, with the scientific acumen to understand clinical evidence and its implications for customer beliefs, engagement needs, and the adoption journey.
- Strong experience translating national strategy, customer insight, and account priorities into targeted customer journeys, engagement plans, advocacy initiatives, and other account-based programmes.
- Strong experience delivering and optimising customer-engagement activities across personal and non-personal channels, including peer-to-peer programmes, digital initiatives, third-party media, and locally adapted content.
- Proven ability to use customer, field, and engagement insights to identify barriers and opportunities, refine channel and touchpoint choices, and demonstrate measurable impact.
- Sound understanding of the UK healthcare environment, including NHS structures, account dynamics, treatment decision-making, and customer-engagement realities.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Sales and collaborate effectively with Medical, Marketing, Oncology Business Excellence, and external stakeholders within a matrix environment.
- Strong project and commercial management skills, with experience managing agencies or media partners and delivering multiple activities within agreed budgets, timelines, and performance expectations.
- Sound understanding of pharmaceutical governance and the ABPI Code of Practice, with experience delivering compliant omnichannel activities and engaging appropriately with healthcare professionals and other external stakeholders.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience working with key account management teams and customer-planning frameworks.
- Experience applying AI, digital technologies, or marketing automation to improve customer engagement and execution.
- Experience using customer-engagement, CRM, marketing automation, or content-approval platforms, such as Veeva PromoMats.
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we are united by our ambition to transform the lives of patients through science. Within Haematology, we are committed to eliminating blood cancers as a cause of death while creating an environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning thrive.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how customers experience our brand, working at the intersection of strategy, customer insight, and local execution. You will help deliver exceptional customer experiences while influencing the future direction of engagement within one of the most exciting areas of oncology.
Join us and help shape the future of haematology.
Date Posted
07-Oct-2026Closing Date
21-Oct-2026Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.Skills Required
- Degree-level qualification in a scientific, life-sciences, business, marketing, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
- Significant commercial experience within oncology, with scientific understanding of clinical evidence and customer adoption
- Experience translating national strategy, customer insight, and account priorities into customer journeys, engagement plans, advocacy initiatives, and account-based programmes
- Experience delivering and optimising customer engagement across personal and non-personal channels, including peer-to-peer programmes, digital initiatives, third-party media, and locally adapted content
- Ability to use customer, field, and engagement insights to identify barriers and opportunities and demonstrate measurable impact
- Understanding of the UK healthcare environment, including NHS structures, account dynamics, treatment decision-making, and customer engagement
- Ability to partner with Sales and collaborate with Medical, Marketing, Oncology Business Excellence, and external stakeholders in a matrix environment
- Strong project and commercial management skills, including agency or media partner management and delivery within budgets and timelines
- Understanding of pharmaceutical governance and the ABPI Code of Practice, including compliant omnichannel activities
- Experience working with key account management teams and customer-planning frameworks
- Experience applying AI, digital technologies, or marketing automation to improve customer engagement
- Experience using CRM, customer-engagement, marketing automation, or content-approval platforms such as Veeva PromoMats
AstraZeneca Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AstraZeneca and has not been reviewed or approved by AstraZeneca.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles when total rewards are factored in. Senior scientific and leadership bands are described with high ranges that reinforce competitiveness at upper levels.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, equity eligibility in many salaried roles, and solid sales on‑target earnings with upside are emphasized as meaningful parts of compensation. These elements boost overall value even where base pay is not the very highest.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) program with a strong company match and immediate vesting is repeatedly cited as a standout. Generous retirement support is viewed as enhancing the total package relative to peers.
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