International Health Policy Leader

Switzerland, Basel-City, Basel

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• Job facts

At Roche, 94,000 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. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.

Global Product Strategy (GPS) drives Roche’s strategy and portfolio of products - from research through to patients. As a member of GPS, you will be part of a truly international group who collaborate with functions and affiliates worldwide to craft the future of medicine.

GPS Global Access (GA) is the department in GPS that drives our access and pricing strategy, developing solutions and forming policies with the core aim to improve access for all. The Global Access Policy team drives our access policy strategy, developing solutions to achieve rapid, broad, sustainable access to Roche innovations.  

We are currently looking for an International Health Policy Leader (IHPL) with primary focus on oncology to support our Basel-based team. You will be responsible for setting the global disease area policy strategy, objectives, plan, tactics and metrics for the assigned Roche therapeutic and associated disease areas; helping ensure Roche and healthcare systems deliver rapid, broad and sustainable patient access.

You will also be responsible for overseeing and guiding implementation and execution against the Global Access Centre of Excellence (ACE) policy strategy, plans and tactics across all Roche Pharma key countries, regions and affiliates.

You will have specialist knowledge and contacts that allow you to strategically inform and influence global health policy environments. Ultimately, this translates to enhanced opportunities for the greatest access to the best medicines available, including those produced by Roche.

In this position you will report to the senior International Health Policy Leader (sIHPL) in the Global Access (GA) Access Center of Excellence.

Additional tasks and responsibilities include:

• Modeling and driving disease area policy knowledge, acumen and excellence across GA, other global, regional and affiliate functions and teams; supporting an agile, project-based organization


• Defining and delivering the global disease area policy vision, strategy, objectives and projects for the assigned disease areas, in alignment with Global Access ACE, business and stakeholder needs


• Leading and handling assigned disease area policy strategic plans, projects and deliverables to ensure high-quality, relevant, timely and within-budget solutions


• Identifying and addressing needs for new or updated disease area policy projects to ensure rapid, broad and sustainable access


• Developing and maintaining in-depth knowledge of internal/external access dynamics, trends and requirements


• Supporting development and continuous improvement of Roche Pharma’s Global Policy Community


• Acting as an expert and global point-of-contact; aiding global, regional and affiliates with robust, timely guidance and advice. Including representing disease area policy topics to key cross-functional groups


• Developing and cultivating long-term strategic partnerships with key influencers, advocates, champions, special interest groups and other policy stakeholders


• Playing a key role in the business’s immediate- and long-term strategic, financial and operational success


• Applying expertise to develop and embed disease area policy and project management capabilities across the Pharma Access Network


• Ensuring assigned goals and objectives are met and that assigned projects and other work are completed on time, to high standards and within budget

Qualifications

• You hold a Bachelors Degree in public health, public policy, health economics, life sciences, business, finance, economics, or a related discipline


• MBA or other Graduate or higher-level Degree in science, business or a similar field preferred

Skillset Required

• You have a track record of meeting or exceeding quantitative and qualitative objectives and goals


• You have consistently developed effective health policy strategies to achieve business objectives and contributing critical thinking to projects and initiatives. Recognized for expertise across a broad set of access topics with ability to deep-dive quickly into new topics, process and link a significant amount of information


• You are able to plan and resource multiple projects on short, medium and long term bases


• Strong cross-functional teaming skills: works well within cross-functional teams and matrix environments


• Strong consulting skills: active listening skills, ability to extract and quickly process key information, summarize key needs or interests of clients, and provide targeted and appropriate insights and recommendations


• Change management skills: understands the principles and practices of best-practice change management and effectively applies to projects


• Great interpersonal skills: shown abilities to develop important relationships with others internally and externally


• Strong influencing and negotiation skills: confirmed abilities to influence others without authority


• Strong communication and presentation skills: exhibits professional maturity, confidence and competence. Knows how to summarize and communicate the key points and business case for others to effectively and expeditiously make important business decisions


• Robust organizational and time management skills: ability to effectively lead and complete multiple priorities and projects


• Strong financial acumen: abilities to effectively run large expense budgets and make significant contributions to long-range revenue planning, scenario planning and risk mitigation/management


• Strong customer orientation/focus


• Ability to travel globally


• Fluent written and verbal English

Experience

To be successful in this role we believe you will need 6 - 10 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical or related industry. Any experience at both affiliate and global levels coupled with a mix of experience in developing and developed markets is a plus. Additionally, you bring following:

• Multidisciplinary experience working in or with a variety of functions within and beyond Access is strongly preferred


• Significant experience handling multiple projects simultaneously in a matrix team environment


• Significant experience developing innovative short-, medium- and long-term strategies


• Strong internal and external relationships and influencing strategic and operational improvements and innovation


• Strong, existing relationships with key healthcare systems, decision-makers and influencers

Are you ready to apply? We are looking for someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be a rare springboard to many other opportunities at Roche.

All Roche employees are expected to effectively contribute to cross-functional collaboration and coordination and follow all laws, regulations, policies & procedures that govern our business.

If you have questions then please check our FAQs and videos on careers.roche.ch/faq.

• Who we areAt Roche, 94,000 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.


• Job facts
  
  
  
  • Location Switzerland, Basel-City, Basel
  
  
  • Function Access
  
  
  • Subfunction Government Affairs
  
  
  • Schedule Full time
  
  
  • Job level
  
  
  • Job type Regular
  
  
  • Division Roche Pharmaceuticals
  
  
  • Posted since 2019/02/06
  
  
  • Posted until 2019/02/24
  
  
  • Job-ID 201901-102608
  
  


• Get in touchDaniele Filippini


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