Job description

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 Medical Value Partner is a key strategic leadership role requiring therapeutic area expertise and clear business understanding to identify and address the relevant medical needs in clinical practice to successfully support the optimal use of Roche products.

  
  

• Linking the affiliate with the global medical affairs objectives to deliver on data generation, knowledge exchange/ data communication, and to lead Therapeutic Areas Experts engagement and development in a scientific manner.

  
  

• Providing high caliber medical support to internal partners (Primary Points of Contact (PPOC: Patient Journey Partner “PJP” and Healthcare System Partner “HSP”), Regulatory) on scientific and medical issues to achieve the affiliate objectives.

  
  

• Acting as a guardian for high standards of compliance, ethics and safety of Roche products, while putting the patient at the center of every action.

  
  

• Leading specific transverse and strategic projects within the Innovation and Partnerships chapter

  
  

• Ensuring all medical information enquiries from customers are answered in a balanced, accurate, ethical and timely manner

  
  

• Supporting the safe and effective use of Roche products 

  
  

Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Medical Strategy and Planning:

• Identify unmet medical needs at medical and scientific customer sites

  
  

• Identify key medical knowledge gaps and propose appropriate action plan

  
  

• Develop Medical strategy, projects & tactics in the concerned therapeutic area to address questions and concerns from the scientific community

  
  

• Develop clinical messages for the product line to support achieving the affiliate objectives

  
  

• Lead the scientific affairs team to achieve the plan

  
  

• Lead the pre-launch activities

  
  

• Manage the budget

  
  

• Implement tools to monitor the medical activities 

  
  

• Attend appropriate regional and international scientific congresses

  
  

TAE interactions & development:

• Responsible for setting up and follow up of 1 to 1 meeting and Advisory Boards to collect input on disease areas, treatment algorithms, clinical data, unmet medical needs, protocol design, and medical education needs.

  
  

• Maintain, strengthen, and develop sustainable partnership with KOLs/ Scientific Associations

  
  

• Coordinate and follow up of the Medical insights collection related to the medical strategy. 

  
  

• Responsible for presenting medical content: pipeline and medical educational content

  
  

Compliance:

• Make sure all service activities and behavior in business are in compliance to Roche standards and guidelines (Symphony, SOPs, and code of conduct)

  
  

• Clinical Operations:

  
  

• Plan, design, Oversight of execution and report of clinical trials according to ICH-GCP, Roche SOPs and local regulation. 

  
  

• Identify opportunities to engage Roche Tunisia in local Investigator Initiated Studies

  
  

• Development of effective interactions with clinical Operations including but not limited to placing studies, provide input on feasibility, sites and investigator selection.

  
  

Internally:

• Work cross-functionally with internal functions to ensure strategic alignment and in Global squads as needed

  
  

• Act as the medical expert in disease and product by detecting, analyzing and sharing new data about the portfolio products and competitive assets with Disease Area Team

  
  

• Support regulatory and healthcare system shaping to achieve timely products registration and access

  
  

• Approval of promotional materials, and external medical content in accordance with Roche SOPs 

  
  

• Support the Pharmacovigilance and Medical Information Responsible

  
  

Medical Projects:

• Lead strategic Projects within the affiliate to accelerate switch to innovation

  
  

Medical information:

• Ensuring all medical information enquiries from customers are answered in a balanced, accurate, ethical and timely manner

  
  

• Supporting the safe and effective use of Roche products

  
  

• Ensure that all enquiries related to designated Roche Products received from all sources (e.g. via phone; e-mail; letter; fax; face to face) are resolved to the required standard.

  
  

• Respond or triage all unsolicited enquiries from customers on Roche products, including both on and off-label enquiries. 

  
  

• Ensure they provide scientific, balanced and up to date information on Roche products to external and internal customers.

  
  

• Ensure responses are timely, meeting local requirements

  
  

• Identify, collecting and reporting any AE and/or other reportable event and forward to drug safety department within timelines described in relevant SOPs

  
  

• Identify and reporting any product quality complaint and forward to local complaint manager within timelines described in relevant SOPs.

  
  

• Ensure integrity and scientific accuracy of the MI responses if applicable. 

  
  

• Ensure copyright compliance for documents provided to the customer if applicable.

  
  

Professional and Technical Requirements

Education/Qualifications:

• Medical degree/Scientific background

  
  

• Business administration and Project management training is a plus

  
  

Experience, Knowledge & Competencies

Experience

• Professional experience within pharmaceutical industry desirable but not mandatory

  
  

• Experience and knowledge of oncology therapeutic area is preferable

  
  

• Knowledge of the overall drug development process relevant to pharmaceutical/ biothechnology organizations 

  
  

• Experience in development and implementation of clinical trials

  
  

• Experience in the principles and techniques of data analysis, interpretation and clinical relevance

  
  

• Experience of writing clinical publications and delivery of scientific presentations

  
  

• Relationships with external TAEs, and external organization is strongly preferred

  
  

• Experience in working with senior business leaders, clinicians and regulatory authorities

  
  

Knowledge:

• ICH,GCP and local regulations

  
  

• Appreciate the diversity of working with multifunction teams

  
  

• Knowledge of drug discovery & commercialization process

  
  

• MS office literate

  
  

• Fluent English language knowledge, written and verbal

  
  

Competencies:

• Strategic thinking

  
  

• Leadership skills

  
  

• Analytical skills

  
  

• Results orientation

  
  

• Communication, interpersonal and networking skills

  
  

• Negotiation skills

  
  

• Presentation skills

  
  

• Knowledge in data analysis and statistics

  
  

Mindset:

• Strong organization skills

  
  

• Good communication skills

  
  

• Good time and priority management

  
  

• Strong team player

  
  

• Open-minded and flexible

  
  

• Customer service orientated

  
  

• Entrepreneurial spirit with strong partnership skills 

  
  

• Growth mindset, coaching, active listening 

  
  

• Ability to learn and self-challenge quickly, take risks and experiment, and contribute to the learning cycle by sharing knowledge with others inside and outside

  
  

• Autonomous and altruistic in supporting the global network

  
  

• High sense of integrity in everything he/she does (ie open, honest, ethical and authentic)

  
  

• Facilitator leveraging internal and external networks to create value, share and scale

  
  

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.