Medical Affairs Partner

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The Position

The Medical Affairs Partner demonstrates personal purpose around improving the patient journey, as well as strong passion to create value and impact on the ecosystem. They think from an Enterprise level, beyond boundaries and borders, in order to bring the best possible outcomes to both the local health environment, and more broadly, across Roche globally. Facilitates and develops the relationship with the medical/scientific community including physicians and medical centers, by communicating the value of Roche's science to investigators and institutions. Provides information on research developments, and new concepts in medical treatment, giving perspective to field activities associated with growing existing products, and bringing new products to market.

The Opportunity:

The Medical Affairs is a senior level role within the affiliate, who has decision-making authority to request resources of Roche (both within the affiliate and broader network) in order to have improved impact on the patient journey.

• Stewards products and services relevant to their therapeutic area/ecosystem throughout their lifecycle, supporting quality use of medicine and improved patient outcomes.
• Maintain a broad understanding of relevant present portfolio and future pipeline such that he/she can anticipate and address future-based ecosystem and patient journey solutions.
• Able to share scientific information concerning a pharmaceutical product, including sharing investigational findings in scientific media, direct communications and at scientific conferences with healthcare professionals and/or the scientific community in a reactive manner.
• Supports relevant PDMA and Country Clinical Operations trial, Early Access Program and Compassionate Use program activities within their disease area/ecosystem.
• Focuses on the importance of bringing the outside in, working with partners to uncover all potential opportunities to transform outcomes for patients, faster. Brings the inside out, to bring Roche expertise, science and knowledge to the ecosystem.
• Acts as a trusted partner and is the primary (but non-exclusive) point of contact between stakeholders and Roche; he/she shares the patient and stakeholder community needs internally, prioritizes and secures resources, and drives solutions that deliver outcomes faster.
• Partners with patient journey stakeholders to remove roadblocks and unlock possibilities to deliver value for patients and the community.
• Stewards Roche’s products through their lifecycle and supports their appropriate use, which includes sharing their merits with HCPs in a truthful and balanced manner.
• Overseeing the patient journey in its entirety, the Medical Affairs Partner acts as a system thinker with the ability to identify shared purpose among stakeholders and leverages this to co-create solutions with stakeholders in the ecosystem.
• The role is empowered to pull in expertise and resources locally and from the network as needed, including in collaboration with other PJPs.
• He/she ensures great experiences whenever stakeholders in the ecosystem engage with Roche employees, products, and services.

Competencies

Skills and Experience:

• System thinker and deep listener.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills including partnering with TAE's and organizations is required. Experience partnering with PAGs is highly desired.
• Experience in working efficiently and harmoniously in a cross-functional team is required. Experience in both formulating cross-functional strategies and orchestrating cross-functional teams is highly desired.
• Ability to understand and leverage digital means and tools is desired.
• Deep experience in agile ways of working is desired.
• Fluent in the local language. Proficient in English to collaborate internally across the broader Roche enterprise is highly desired.
• Evidence generation skills is required.
• Experience with medical review of promotional materials is required.
• Experience in compassionate use programs is highly desired.

Expertise

Who You Are, as expertise:

• Deep understanding of patient journey(s) and related treatments in Oncology, specifically Breast cancer and HCC, enabling engagement at the specialist level.
• Broad understanding of Roche’s present portfolio and future pipeline, such that he/she can work on future-based solutions.
• Robust understanding of medical affairs strategies and tactics including clinical research.

Preferred Qualifications:

• University degree or higher in life sciences or pharmacy. A medical degree is an advantage.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.