Medical Director

Job description

The Position

Job purpose

Enables the organization to advance to reach the North Star, committed to transform the clinical practice, embracing a creative leadership style (VAAC*: Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach) and promoting the highest scientific, ethical and compliance standards.

Responsibilities & Accountability

As Enabling Team Member:

• Be partner of the affiliate enabling team:
• Working for Roche affiliate to be sustainable and with an exceptionally good
• reputation.
• Embracing VACC leadership (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach).
• Networking and connecting the organization (affiliates, international and global
• teams).
• Representing the medical and scientific team.

As Medical Director:

VACC Leadership and member of the Medical Affairs team:

• Develop and consolidate a highly motivated, ethic, science driven, competent, collaborative, empowered, purpose connected, innovative and effective team.
• Committed to transform clinical practice to allow optimal and personalized healthcare, advocating for patients, for medical progress and universal healthcare access.
• Driving the introduction, uptake and use of our innovative medicines and services in clinical practice and patient care, especially through high quality scientific education, data generation, medical information/communication and customer/patient medically oriented solutions.
• Being a trusted partner and a central interface with the healthcare ecosystem.
• Embedding real patient and healthcare ecosystem perspectives across Roche enabling the delivery of an extraordinary experience.

Accountable for:

• Affiliate evidence generation portfolio management needed to enhance product knowledge and anticipate/support patient access according to the local needs and in line with global strategy.
• PAA/CU programs, aligned with Roche policies and SOPs.
• Oversights and collaborate to accomplish medical compliance related activities, according
• to Roche policies, SOPs and local regulations.
• Represents Roche medical voice with key external stakeholders
• - Connecting key stakeholders and promoting co-creation.
• - Contributing to stakeholder engagement strategy on above franchise level.
• - Media communications of medical topics/issues.

As Disease Area Strategy Medical Enabler:

• Ensure that the Cross Country Disease Area Teams achieve the best possible outcomes in their areas by fostering an environment of collaboration, co-creation and agile ways of working, ensuring a strategic customer centric execution.
• Embody servant leadership, developing all CCST members through coaching and feedback, collaborating with functional leadership to share feedback and ensure optimal success for all team members.

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As a Roche employee:

• Understand and respect all programs, procedures and instructions related to SHE, PV, corporate and healthcare compliance (this includes reporting incidents and informing your immediate superior and / or the corresponding area as appropriate).

Requirements: 

• Medical degree is required. Certification in a medical specialty is valuable.
• Extensive experience in the medical function of the biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry
• Product development experience
• Strong track record in strategic planning and implementation of key Medical affairs activities in data generation, scientific communications, medical education and external stakeholder management and cooperation
• Clinical and post-marketing drug safety and risk management
• External stakeholders engagement (incl. TAE, patient association, collaborative groups, Health authorities, payers)
• Experience in product launches

Leadership

• Strong creative leadership style attributes.
• Successful track record of people leadership including in the matrix organization, and managing through others
• Managing high-performing teams
• Change management
• Public speaking and presenting to large audiences
• In-depth understanding of medical and strategic aspects of all drug development stages
• In-depth understanding of medical strategies including integrated evidence generation (early phases to post marketing), knowledge sharing and scientific collaborations
• In depth understanding of the medical compliance framework (GCP/GVP) , Health

Care Compliance and Quality management

• In depth understanding of the local health care system, including regulatory and payer environment
• Business and financial acumen
• Fluency in English language, oral and written. 

If you consider that this could be the next step in your career, we invite you to participate!

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.