Global Healthcare Partnership Manager

Roche is hiring a Global Medical Collaboration Lead on a fixed-term contract. This role will accelerate the development and delivery of medicines to patients through effective medical customer engagement across the lifecycle of a molecule.

This role is a medical, global, field-based position working across countries and affiliates to develop and deliver medicines to patients. The successful candidate will drive scientific knowledge exchange with global experts and establish scientific collaborations with key external stakeholders.

• Develop relationships with external stakeholders to ensure Roche is the preferred partner and champion a ONE Roche approach.
• Drive scientific knowledge exchange with global experts and across scientific networks at global and affiliate level.
• Establish and maintain scientific collaborations with key external stakeholders, including patient organisations, scientific societies, academia, policy and access stakeholders.
• Identify and progress key opportunities for increased collaboration and cooperation and overcome barriers to facilitate collaborations between customers and the organisation.
• Engage and educate investigators and site staff to enable and expedite the successful delivery of clinical development programmes.
• Drive scientific engagement with clinical trial sites to support patient recruitment and retention by ensuring confidence and motivation of site staff across the development programme(s).
• Gather investigator feedback and insights to optimise clinical development performance and customer experience.
• Discuss and support Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs), compassionate use programmes and data strategies that support access activities until release of pivotal data.
• Provide real-time insights and ground-level understanding of the disease area landscape across countries to better inform cross-functional strategies.
• Build a comprehensive understanding of the local environment.
• Execute insights-gathering activities to address knowledge gaps, including advisory boards and steering committees.
• Ensure the customer perspective is incorporated in strategic and tactical decisions.
• Partner with global cross-functional colleagues and affiliates to enhance launch readiness in assigned countries.
• Accelerate affiliate understanding of the disease area ecosystem and support understanding and alignment with the global strategy to drive effective affiliate planning and decision making.
• Act as disease area champion and advocate in assigned affiliates.
• Support the local implementation of field-based activities of the global medical plan in compliance with all local requirements.
• Contribute to the high performance and innovation of the Global Medical Collaboration community to optimise customer experience and evolve to meet the needs of the organisation.

• Required: University degree in science or related field.
• Highly desirable: Postgraduate degree (PhD, PharmD, MSc, MD, MBA).
• At least 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or related industries in a global or affiliate role.
• At least 2 years of experience in a medical/scientific, customer-facing, field role.
• Desired: Deep scientific knowledge/experience in Neuroscience (especially Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases).
• Experience in Medical Affairs, Product Development or Early Development is essential, including understanding and experience of processes and procedures for clinical trial engagement for corporate-sponsored and independent-supported studies.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory.
• Fluency in written and spoken Portuguese (Brazilian) is mandatory.
• Highly desirable: fluency in Spanish.
• Passion for Customer Centricity and External Medical Engagement.
• Strategic skills and system awareness are critical for this role, liaising with teams within Global Medical Affairs, Global Product Development, Global Research & Early Development and Global Commercial functions and country affiliates.
• Flexibility and scientific agility to change between disease areas, functional and/or specialist topics according to business needs.
• Fixed-term contract.

No relocation budget available for this position.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.

Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products.

We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

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• Mid-Senior Level

• Full-Time

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