The Position

At Roche, we believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives and believe good business means a better world.Pharma International is Roche's global business network (excluding the US and Japan) of over 15'000 people whose vision is to bring medicines to patients in the fastest possible way.

Pharma International is transforming how it does business and how we work together for patients and customers.' To deliver innovative treatments to our patients, we are looking for a Medical Director to contribute to our Ophthalmology department.

Disease Area Medical Director Ophthalmology is a VACC model leader,  coaching local medical teams to drive local organizational readiness for pivotal data releases, ensuring high-quality input into medical/scientific planning, including local and regional data generation, catalyzing scientific collaborations and knowledge exchange/upcycling of activities in line with global strategy.

Your future Position, Scope and Impact: 

• Ensures alignment and communication with all relevant internal and external stakeholders when applicable on all matters related to planning medical activities 
• Contributes to establishing and implementing appropriate policies and standards 
• Partners with global Product Development Medical Affairs when needed to define data gaps along patients' journey, proactively and efficiently co-shaping Integrated Evidence Plan strategy to capture affiliates needs
• Collaborates with regulatory to identify options for acceleration of approvals by co-creation 
• Acts as Medical expert, point of reference for data generation activities on specific therapeutic areas

Your Capabilities:

• Establishing and maintaining reliable relationships with scientific advocacy organizations in the respective Disease Area
• Broad understanding of business context in the respective Disease Area, including access evidence requirements and external value/decision-making drivers
• Profound knowledge of the overall drug development process

You bring the following education and experiences:

• You are a MD or MD/PhD in ophthalmology or, in another therapeutic area, complemented with extensive pharma industry experience in Ophthalmology, esp. Medical Retina field.
• Profound experience in pharmaceutical medicine, including data generation, medical communication, medical information, and pharmacovigilance
• MD with relevant clinical experience (patient care decision making) at the point of care and board-certified specialist in the respective disease area 
• You have experience in partnering with therapeutic area experts and external organizations
• Experience in leadership  roles for above country or global teams
• Development/medical affairs prelaunch and launch experience
• Surgical device experience is a plus

Success in this role will deliver better outcomes for patients, better community value and better commercial results, the latter being the consequence of the first two.  Committing to improving better care outcomes for patients is good business.

Your future Position, Scope and Impact:

• VACC leadership of fit-for-purpose collaborative networks to deliver North Star outcomes
• Working closely with global teams(market access/regulatory) to input into the production and realization of the disease area outcomes
• Collaborating with global partners to define/ identify regulatory and access data gaps enabling local acceleration strategies
• Aligning on prioritized outcomes across Pharma International, stewarding and enabling resources swarming around those outcomes.
• Catalyzes the development and realization of the priorities that are developed from TA Outcomes Based Planning (OBP) across the network
• Co-creation and architecting of disease area work packages’ across the Pharma International affiliate network
• Serves as a strategic partner and steward of the realization of Integrated Strategy Plans by ‘Sparking’ connections and collaborative innovations across the network.
• Be a catalyst for knowledge management, connecting people to people, and people to knowledge, continuously architecting systems so information flows through the network. Considers innovative approaches for rapid practice sharing and implementation.
• Stewarding the therapeutic areas across Pharma International affiliates, addressing the need to support the appropriate use of Roche’s approved medicines to add value to patients and healthcare systems.

You fulfill the following requirements:

• Ability to demonstrate Roche Values, Leadership Commitments and Core Competencies
• Cultural and organizational agility
• Strong influencing skills
• Experience in leadership  roles for above country or global teams
• Customer facing & launch experience
• Organization knowledge
• Enjoys working flexibly and some travel will be required
• Is humble and eager to learn from others
• Has an entrepreneurial mindset and is able to act fast
• Is a system thinker 
• Able to learn quickly, and grow to take on new challenges
• Understand that through collaboration more can be achieved
• Displays integrity in everything they do (i.e. open, honest, ethical and genuine)

Your Capabilities:

• VACC leadership, with the ability to inspire and influence high performing teams
• Coaching and Mentoring skills across senior internal stakeholders
• Ability to understand complexity and prioritize in order to create fit-for purpose solutions and connections across the network
• Courageous authentic leader able to work within a self managed team environment
• The ability to spark passion and commitment across a wide network in order to deliver exceptional outcomes for the organisation and external ecosystem
• Cultural and organizational agility
• Strong influencing skills across a diverse network

You bring the following education and experiences:

• Significant experience in the pharmaceutical/ biotechnology industry in commercial, medical, or access leadership roles.
• Significant healthcare customer-facing experience, preferably in more than one country/ setting e.g. Global and above country roles
• Experience in commercial or access strategy roles in surgical medical devices markets is highly desirable.
• Proven effective, agile, fit-for-purpose leadership of cross-functional teams
• Global strategy development experience preferred as well as pre-launch and launch experience at a country level 
• Good knowledge of drug development and commercialization processes, reimbursement environment, regulatory and compliance requirements