Blood Rare Disease Lead

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The Position

Job Summary

• Accountable for the overall setting and delivery of medical strategic and medical plan for the blood rare disease

• Enhances and drives effective collaboration with external partners (TAEs, Societies and Collaborative Groups) to identify and fulfill appropriate opportunities to advance science and solutions for patients.

• Actively build up internal cross-functional strategic partnership for assigned disease, also including regional and/or global networking

• Responsible for appropriate resource planning in the teams to guarantee activities take place as planned, and within budget

• Responsible for people management and development, as well as all other line manager responsibilities

• Ensures strict adherence to the company’s corporate policies, SOP and local regulations for all initiatives for assigned disease

Key Responsibilities

1. Medical Strategy and planning

• Accountable for development, delivery and maintenance of strategic medical plan

– Builds deep understanding of the current and future direction of blood rare disease

– Creates and executes long term brand and disease medical strategy

• Accountable for team development, delivery and maintenance of strategically aligned Medical Plans (on-market & in portfolio) within assigned disease

– Leads country medical managers and medical science managers working on the same product or disease to develop and execute annual medical plan

– Ensure medical plan is aligned with global medical plan, disease strategy and brand strategy

– Leads country medical managers to periodically update medical plan to reflect the change of the competitive landscape and critical business strategy change if appropriate

– On time, quality and within budget delivery of the medical plan, either directly or through team member(s)

• Supervises team to actively build up internal cross-functional strategic partnership for assigned disease, also including regional and/or global networking

– Acts as point of contact for any strategic discussion on the assigned disease

– Upgrades the influence level to the global IMT (International Medical Team)

• Accountable for the scientific & strategic leadership for all other key medical activities for the assigned disease, including medical information service, epidemiology/outcome research, medical education, medical publications, pharmacovigilance, and biomarker science, etc. to ensure alignment of the overall medical strategy and optimal execution of the medical plan

• Accountable for the medical and scientific support provided to the commercial activities for the product(s) within assigned disease, including medical input in the marketing strategy, external professional interaction, sales training, promotional material generation

2. Evidence generation

• Medical/scientific responsibility for assigned clinical studies and other sources of evidence generation (e.g. RWD ), including but not limited to defining study concepts/synopses, protocol development, medical monitoring, final study reports and preparation of data for publication of study results

• Accountable for close collaboration with regulatory and development teams to provide unmet medical needs assessment and product value proposition to ensure an optimal local registration strategy for the new product and/or new indication(s)

• Accountable for identifying potential medical interest for line extensions according to the scientific rationale and the understanding of the actual and anticipated future medical practice in key markets

3. Knowledge exchange/Data communication

• Accountable for full execution of MSM action plan

– Leads MSMs to ensure the execution of action plans to fulfill the scientific communication objectives

– Brings medical insights from external stakeholders to internal medical and product teams timely and accurately, to help shape strategic planning

• Ensures that medical expertise and scientific data is provided to other stakeholders such as Regulatory, Drug Safety, Health Economics, and Public Policy as appropriate to support proper product labeling, reimbursement and funding.

• Leads medical events such as advisory boards and Roche initiated medical education events, in charge of coordinating activities involving TAEs, Societies and Collaborative Group

4. TAE engagement

• Oversight of TAE management strategy, and engagement plan within DA and MSL execution to deliver disease strategy

– Leads MSMs and CMMs to develop TAE management strategy and engagement plan and ensure the alignment with disease strategy

– Oversees TAE management in the field by building up the capability and capacity of disease team to ensure high quality scientific engagement

• Develops and maintains a network of opinion leaders and experts in the assigned disease in order to maintain and reinforce the scientific leadership of the Company

5. People Leadership

• Builds up the capability and capacity of disease team members to ensure the resource and skill set needed for a high quality medical deliverables.

• Motivates all team member(s) to work towards the aligned goal, provide coaching and support to the team member(s), responsible for team member recruitment and career development

– Inspires and motivates a positive spirit of teamwork by active, open and constructive communications

– Coaches and supports individual subordinate team members for desired performance and career development

– Oversees the development and implementation of training plans for assigned disease team

– Manages the disease team budget, including review and approval of expense reports

6. Compliance

• Strict adherence to the company’s corporate policies, SOP and local regulations for all initiatives for assigned disease

– Ensures appropriate scientific and medical compliance, governance and risk management with the framework of optimized patient centric risk/benefit in the responsible disease

– Contributes to establishing appropriate policies and standards for all medical activities(e.g. studies, publications, registries, TAE collaborations)

– Ensures all medical initiatives implemented strictly adhere to Roche SOPs/policies and local regulations.

– Champion the implementation of medical compliance with high ethics and integrity

Who we are

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.