Healthcare Systems Partner

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The Position

Healthcare Systems Partner

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

Roche Singapore is seeking a strategic thinker to join our Patient Access and Policy Chapter as a Healthcare Systems Partner (HSP). As a HSP, you will work closely with system-level healthcare stakeholders such as policy makers, regulators, and payers to challenge and shape the healthcare system in service of better health outcomes for more patients faster in a sustainable way to society. In this role, you will deal with some of the most interesting healthcare policy challenges, including patient empowerment, healthcare funding, and broader value recognition of innovations. This position will be based in Singapore and will report to the Chapter Lead of Patient Access and Policy.

Your Opportunity

• Lead the development and implementation of our patient engagement and advocacy strategy in line with our system shaping goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize, and drive strategic opportunities to solve for system and policy constraints for prioritized disease areas in conjunction with relevant ecosystem stakeholders.
• Lead external engagement with prioritized health system stakeholders.
• Represent Roche in relevant work streams at Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (SAPI).
• Represent Singapore in selected APAC and global networks.

• University degree (scientific, economic, or business degree). An advanced degree in Life science and/or Master of Public Health, MBA is a plus.
• Expertise in public health and health policy is a plus.
• Deep understanding of Singapore’s healthcare system, policy, and political environment and also having a good understanding of the pharma industry, its processes and governance.
• A track record of development and delivery of policy/ government affairs/ patient engagement strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.
• Experience working with/for trade associations, civil societies, government affairs consultancy companies, or patient organizations is a plus.
• Fluent in English. Fluency in other local languages (Mandarin, Malay, Hindi) is a plus.

• Visionary: defining and embedding the strategy around creating better health outcomes for more patients faster.
• Enterprise thinking: 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.
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset with outstanding partnering capabilities (coaching, consulting, ability to deeply listen, question and understand).
• Growth mindset, able to learn and unlearn quickly, work with ambiguity, take risks and experiment, and contribute to the learning cycle by sharing knowledge with others inside and outside Roche.
• Ability to work well with cross-functional teams and drive projects independently.

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.