Population Health Insights 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.

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 evidence based epidemiological expertise to generate, validate and manage epidemiology data for Disease Area Population Health Strategies, patient population forecasts and business planning over the lifecycle of the product. This position will require close collaboration with Global teams, local market access teams, business analysts, market planners, as well as with external providers of epidemiology data including CROs and consultants.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Population Health Strategy Lead, develop a Population Health landscape analysis for a particular disease area and identify new patient populations.

• Identify, assess and utilize high quality epidemiological data sources to generate epidemiology forecasting models to support strategic access and business related decisions across Roche product portfolio.

• Maintain and utilize internal access and epidemiology infrastructure (databases and applications) for access and epidemiology research information network on national and international levels.

• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of global, regional and affiliate access and epidemiology information needs.

• Deliver access and epidemiology insights for the assigned disease/therapeutic area(s), including epidemiology forecasting input into business revenue forecasts, publications and external presentations

• Ensure a high bar for relevance, quality and timeliness of research, data collection, insights and reporting strategies, projects and recurring activities

Who You Are

• Graduate or higher-level Degree in epidemiology (e.g. Masters of Public Health or PhD in epidemiology); or Graduate or higher-level Degree (MS or PhD) in quantitative methods, economics, pharmacology or a related discipline with Post-Graduate qualification in epidemiology; or Medical Degree (RN, MD) with Post-Graduate qualification in epidemiology

• Relevant experience designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting epidemiological studies (including Real World Data studies)

• Experience with data management an analysis using standard business applications (Excel-based applications, Tableau, R software) is strongly preferred

• Experience with design and conduct of epidemiological studies using RWD sources such as Publicly or Privately owned Electronic Medical Records (EMR) or Health Insurance Claims Records databases is an asset

• Ability to generate epidemiological data for forecasting models and an understanding of how this data is used throughout product development is a plus

• Knowledge of national and international health statistics, surveillance data and health surveys in defined disease areas, in particular their strengths and weaknesses

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

• Team player as you will be working in multi-cultural and cross- functional teams

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.