Country Disease Area Lead

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

A strategic and operational leadership role, enabling assigned pods / business teams in their mission, to turn upside down the role we play as Roche in society - from mostly offering world-class medicines towards much more partnering, innovating and leading generative disruption, to ensure we deliver better outcomes for patients, their community, the ecosystem and the organisation faster.

Act as leader of the organization and ambassador of Roche vision, purpose and transformation

Responsibility & Accountability

• Accountable for the business success / outcomes and team performance of the assigned business through provision of effective, non-hierarchical VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach) leadership within a self-organized and fully empowered team
• Provide inspirational visionary leadership, enabling the emergence and alignment of bold team visions and aspirations in the respective business area, pod OBPs, and work packages
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the assigned pods/teams and individuals on strategies, processes, and practices to support faster and better outcomes
• Mobilizes resources, with an enterprise mindset, and consults for advice on different expertise as required, from the local organization as well as the network
• Contribute to building up the capability of the teams and individuals through identifying and addressing development and training needs in collaboration with the chapter leads. Act as a coach for colleagues with less experience and help them develop skills/expertise
• Analyze and define gaps and opportunities of the current product/solution and service offerings to establish a strong partnering and reputation of Roche in the marketplace and grow the impact to patients, the healthcare system and the Roche business (triple win), and support activities for the development of strategic outcome-based plans and programs
• Deeply understand the needs of the external ecosystems, as articulated by the PJPs/HSPs, and ensure rapid solutions that deliver sustainable outcomes, adapting existing solutions from around the globe or co-creating new solutions that leverage fluid resources and skills
• Constantly build a network proactively, including participating in cross country Disease Area Pods and / or building / participating in CoPs as well as connecting between DAs at a local level for system opportunities
• Develop a clear strategy on how to identify, leverage, scale, adapt or co-create solutions based on customer needs
• Pull in resources with the most impactful skills from across the Roche network to deliver on added value solutions
  
  

Qualification, Skills and Experience :

• Significant experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry in commercial, medical and/or access leadership roles, preferably with multidisciplinary experience
• Significant healthcare customer-facing experience, preferably with strong local market understanding
• Expertise in Customer Experience (pharma/biotech preferable, or outside of industry)
• Proven effective, agile, fit-for-purpose leadership of cross-functional teams. Cultural and organizational agility, comfortable and track record of operating and influencing in all directions in a global network/matrix environment
• Able to understand and leverage digital means and tools is desired
  
  

Who we are

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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