Public Affairs Partner - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Job description

The Position

About Roche UK

We’re here to deliver better outcomes to more patients, faster. That means the world to us.  

Our achievements help to transform the lives of millions of people. We’ve been supporting patients for over 100 years in the UK, building a reputation that we’re intensely proud of. Through this success, we’ve set an incredibly high standard. Those expectations continue to grow. The environment in which we operate changes at an ever-increasing pace. The industry is never going to stand still.

As one united team at Roche UK, we know we need to boldly respond to these changes whilst keeping our customers and our patients at the heart of everything we do.

So, we’re shooting for the stars, transforming ourselves into a much more open, dynamic, transparent, inclusive, collaborative and agile business.

Our Commitments

“Better outcomes to more patients, faster.”

• Healthcare partners are ‘wowed’ when they work with us

• Our innovations are faster and bolder 

• We provide services and products to better serve people

• Purpose is our primary motivator

• We spend our time contributing where it adds the most value

… we ensure brilliance across the organisation

… we can feel brave, innovate and take calculated risks within legal and ethical boundaries...not fearing consequences if things “go wrong”

… we can bring our authentic selves to work 

… we do not need permission. We take personal accountability and trust each other..

… we can develop our career based on our passion, experience & behaviour and play to our strengths

… we work within less hierarchy – and with more coaching 

… everyone can be a leader, regardless of role

… we aim to spend 20% of our time on personal development

Our UK operating model is based on the following principles:

•  Flexible resourcing across fit-for-purpose teams to address specific needs and priorities

•  Healthcare-driven focus through outcomes

•  Consultation, individual empowerment & accelerated decision-making through decentralisation

•  Customer focus through mutually beneficial partnerships

•  Collaboration

•  Transparent portfolio level prioritisation

Mindset and behaviour is as important to us as experience and capabilities.

We won’t tell you how to behave with detailed competency frameworks; we ask you to bring your differences so we can celebrate a more diverse and inclusive workforce. 

We offer a starting point for you to consider and to reflect on what this might mean for you: we’re building a culture that is centered around growth mindset, prioritisation, ownership and accountability.  We need individuals who are courageously authentic in their thinking and in their actions.  This is what excites us about our future. 

We believe that on-going personal transformation is the heart of on-going organisational transformation and that fundamental to this is knowing yourself. 

For us, knowing yourself means being aware of your own strengths and weaknesses, your passions and fears, your desires and dreams, your thoughts and feelings, your likes and dislikes, your tolerance and limitations. Knowing yourself requires you to: regularly stop, pause and reflect as you change and develop over time, invite and share feedback regularly and know where to focus your development, know when to hold things lightly and what to let go of.

Knowing yourself means knowing your purpose and what fulfills you, it enables you to be authentic and truly bring your whole self to work.

Public Affairs Partner - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Experienced public affairs practitioner, ideally but not necessarily gained within a healthcare environment 

Preferable - a) Good knowledge of the NHS and UK healthcare policy and b) degree in politics, public policy or a related field. 

• Leading our interactions with patient groups and policy makers, devising and delivering integrated communications and public policy campaigns to remove barriers to the best care and treatment for every eligible patient

• Working cross-functionally across both the UK and global structures to create and deliver strategies that support and drive not only UK brand and above brand priorities, but also those of the wider Roche organisation

• Building strong relationships and stakeholder support to deliver better outcomes for more patients, faster. 

• Excellent knowledge of current affairs and the UK political system

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, highly analytical and capable of communicating complex information clearly both inside and outside of our organisation

• Exceptional networking and influencing skills to ensure the successful implementation of public affairs plans

• Strong project management skills, ability to work effectively with agency partners and successfully track and manage associated spend.

• Ability to operate within a compliance-led regulatory environment. 

• Highly autonomous working environment where individuals see projects through from conception to completion. Ability to prioritise workload, analyse key problems, devise appropriate tactics, gain support and consensus and consequently drive change.

Individuals should be operating in one or more of the following categories:

•  Strong experience of policy work, creating first in class public affairs campaigns aligned with our brand and above brand strategies. Strong team player with the ability to autonomously prioritise and advise the business on the sensitivity of their specific issue to public affairs activity.

• Highly experienced in policy work and well networked within the sector/with key stakeholders in Westminster/Whitehall. Ability to identify and create short, medium and long term strategies that add value to the organisation. An experienced coach and mentor, who is able to support colleagues in public affairs roles and others in the organisation.  

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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.

Our UK Pharmaceutical head office is situated in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, with beautiful countryside surrounding the area. Supported by major motorways & airports as well as being a 30 minute train ride to London, access is easy. Our award-winning office, known as Hexagon Place, was opened in 2005 and provides a modern, flexible working environment with facilities that are second-to-none. Around 2,000 people work at our Welwyn office in Global Early Development (pRED), Global Product Development (PD), Commercial (Rx) and our Corporate functions.

Roche offer a competitive salary plus the excellent benefits you would expect from a blue-chip organisation. There is a fully equipped gym on-site, a library and information centre, and an active sports and social club. We also have a subsidised staff restaurant providing foods to cater for every taste throughout the day. At the heart of the building is an informal meeting area known as The Street which features a coffee shop, snack machine and cashpoint. A second building on-site, called The Hub, contains modern meeting room and conference facilities. Roche promotes personal well-being and work-life balance. Therefore, flexible working options will be considered for all roles at Roche UK. Roche is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.