International Competitive Intelligence Manager

Job description

  Job facts

Global Product Strategy provides strategic business direction from research through to development, commercialization and medical excellence, collaborating with functions and affiliates to shape the future of medicine. The Strategic Insights & Analysis Team provides high quality insights on the brand(s) and the market environment for the relevant disease area.

Focus of the role of the International Competitive Intelligence Manager is to support new assets in the pre-launch phase for hematology, where expertise is

needed to develop clear and sustainable differentiation strategy and tactics. Business development opportunities will need to be evaluated in parallel, for which CI support plays a critical role. You will act as a strategic business partner to Lifecycle Teams (LCTs), International Business Teams (IBTs) and other cross-functional and affiliate teams. You will provide objective competitive assessments and analyses to enable effective and informed decision making. This includes insights on dynamic market changes on competition and other insights that positively impact business decisions and strategy.

You will also ensure that all competitor information and competitive intelligence is available and easily accessible to key customers, partners and other stakeholders.

In this position, you will be primarily accountable for consistently, effectively:

·  Acting as a competitive intelligence (CI) expert in developing and delivering regular CI analyses, insights and reporting, including competitor landscapes, threat assessments, strategic workshops, SWOTs, target product profiles of competitor products, etc.
·  Partnering across Business Insights & Operations, Global Product Strategy and key affiliate teams to understand business strategies and needs and ensure delivery of targeted CI to meet or exceed internal partner/stakeholder objectives
·  Leading the collection of CI from internal and external sources and undertaking the synthesis and dissemination of this information to support decision-making
·  Promoting and maintaining best practice CI, leading the coordination, planning and execution of CI at conferences, conducting strategic workshops
·  Partnering with International Strategic Insights Managers (ISIMs) and US CI to support global and affiliate brand teams on key strategic decision-making, while managing external CI and other relevant vendor relationships and deliverables.

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·  Who we are

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 8,500 people from approximately 90 countries work in Basel, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more .

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Desired profile

Who you are

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

·  University degree in Business / Marketing / Economics or Science (MBA or PhD is a plus)
·  At least 3 years in similar roles with competitive intelligence experience for pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
·  Experience leading actionable and cross-functional strategic workshops
·  Hematology and international or global work experience strongly preferred; Project management experience in a complex and multiple project environment, excellent analytical thinking, communication skills, project management
·  Experience with quantitative and qualitative CI techniques and projects, experience includes past responsibilities for integrating and synthesizing findings from multiple sources to enable informed strategic decision–making and business insights.

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