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Our UK Marketing Company ranks number one, in terms of sales, in the cancer therapy area, and is a leading player in the areas of gastrointestinal, anaesthesia, cardiovascular and respiratory.
Strategically, the UK Marketing Company is one of the most important AZ marketing divisions alongside those in the United States and Japan.
Key Elements
The UK Marketing Company provides two key elements within the life cycle of any product. Firstly, an extensive clinical research programme provides essential data and feedback as a product progresses towards market. Secondly, Sales and Marketing are our business, and we are focused on creating demand in a changing and dynamic healthcare market and selling products that meet our customers' needs, in a responsible and ethical way.
Teamwork
Our team of almost 2,000 comprises a UK sales force closely aligned to our customers both existing and prospective as well as key external influencers, a comprehensive sales and marketing team at our Bedfordshire offices and a Clinical Research Group in Edinburgh. The UK Marketing Company is closely involved in launching AstraZeneca's "Megabrands" (these are products with at least $1 billion in annual sales in peak years).
Core Values
The company offers a flexible-benefits package, AZ Advantage, which provides employees with both choice and value. In the marketing company this is complemented by a set of core values that include "Passion and Belief in the business", "Work in teams", "Value Customers", "Embrace Change", "Value personal fulfilment" and take "Personal Responsibility".
Skilled Professionals
The UK Marketing Company's offices in Bedfordshire are "home" to a team of highly skilled Marketeers, Medical professionals, Regulatory personnel, Human Resource professionals, Public Relations and Government Affairs specialists as well as Financial Analysts, Health Economists, Legal experts, IT specialists and Administrators.
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