Population Health Strategy Lead

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The Position

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Our Global Product Strategy (GPS) team plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare by driving the strategic direction of our innovative product portfolio. As a member of the GPS team, you will be at the forefront of transforming groundbreaking scientific discoveries into accessible and impactful healthcare solutions for patients worldwide. We are seeking a dynamic and visionary professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about making a difference.

About Global Access

Global Access is focused on delivering sustainable, replicable and scalable global strategies, policies and solutions. Our work aims to support the Pharma Vision and enables affiliates to drive patient access locally while maximizing the value for society, ecosystems and business. We are operating in a highly networked and agile model with stable chapters and a variety of flexible squads and work product teams along the lifecycle and across disease areas, functions and geographies. Chapters are based on the expertise and capabilities needed to co-create and deliver integrated solutions with our internal and external partners.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing Disease Area Population Health Strategies, leveraging epidemiological insights to enhance patient access and uptake of healthcare innovations. You will collaborate across internal teams and with external partners, to build innovative approaches to overcoming barriers to the optimal use of Roche’s offerings in all eligible populations. The Population Health Strategy will be a core component of the Access Strategy and the deliverables will be used to inform and are subsequently integrated into ISP and IEP.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a Population Health landscape analysis for a particular disease area and identify new patient populations. You achieve this by working closely with markets, epidemiologists and other teams and by mapping/ leveraging the healthcare ecosystem pathways.

• Collaborate with individuals across Global Access (Access Strategy, Pricing, Evidence & Epidemiology) as well as key stakeholders in early development and commercial teams to create an actionable population health strategy for your respective Disease Area.

• Once the strategy is shaped, your role will be to influence, activate and co-ordinate approaches across several functions within global and priority markets. You will influence access and commercial strategies by providing recommendations to Commercial Leadership Teams/ Priority markets and guide resource allocation to support solution implementation.

• For your disease area, you will Identify, engage, and vet external partners to develop business solutions & strategic partnerships that address challenges in healthcare innovation uptake. You will share approaches and solutions with other strategy leads where they can be leveraged across or in part of the portfolio.

• You will work with in-market DA squads to pull through Population Health solutions. In doing so you will continue to grow Roche’s expertise in Population Health solutions like Decentralized care, Health Financing etc.

Who You Are

• Experienced and successful business leader who can flex across a breadth of leadership skills including strategic thinking, problem solving and business plan design through to execution.

• You thrive on the challenge to do things differently, operate with ambiguity and find business solutions to new business challenges. You thrive in a space where there are no precedents and are comfortable and confident enough to shape new ways forward.

• You are comfortable in both commercial and scientific discussions, have driven/built/implemented innovative strategies and solutions, have experience in brokering partnerships and ultimately are patient centric.

• Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical drug development process, product life cycle with a focus on commercial/ access expertise.

• Deep expertise in one or more Roche’s disease areas and experience working in a Roche priority market/s is preferred.

• Strong financial acumen – experience with resource allocation, P&L management.

• Ability to consume health insights and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Have successful global launch experience.

• Experience in building multi-stakeholder consortia that resulted in innovative healthcare ecosystems.

• Robust experience with leading large complex planning process, strategy, insights and analytics

• Strong financial acumen – experience with resource allocation, P&L management.

Join us in our mission to advance science and deliver hope to those who need it most.

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.

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Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.