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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.

The Global Competitive Intelligence (CI) team serves as a competitive strategic thought partner, expert, and trusted advisor to leadership and teams across Roche's Global Product Strategy (GPS), REDs (gRED and pRED), Product Development (PD), and business development (BD) organization. The CI team plays a pivotal role in guiding Roche's product, disease area, franchise, and corporate strategy by delivering unbiased, objective, and expertly curated competitive insights derived from comprehensive analysis of competitor scientific, clinical, and commercial data/intelligence.

As a (senior) Competitive Intelligence Lead (CIL), you drive and implement competitive intelligence strategies for our pipeline assets, spanning both early and late stages, as well as our on-market products. Your work will focus on specific disease areas (DA), and cross-portfolio strategy projects. The CIL is a strategic thought partner for all key functions involved in research and development, product development, and global commercialization (Research and Early Development/RED, Product Development/PD, PDMA, GPS, Partnering/Business Development, and US/Pharma International) and other cross-functional teams.

Your key responsibilities are:

Competitive context monitoring: gathering, analysis of competitive insights and communication to varied stakeholders. Drive and ensure the generation of competitive intelligence from insights and develop recommendations to inform decision-making at any point of an asset lifecycle. 

Pipeline (early to late): Shape competitive strategies, informing competitive positioning, TPP creation and launch plans (value proposition, differentiation, messaging). Contribute to disease area strategies and assessment of standard-of-care evolution by synthesizing insights at pre-clinical and clinical stages, including emerging trends and  modalities. 

Commercial and marketed products: Enhance the commercial success of pre-launch and marketed brands by ensuring competitive readiness and mindset by collaborating with the affiliate network.

External opportunities assessment: Support life cycle and early development teams in making asset/program or business development (BD) and partnering investment decisions taken by internal senior leadership committees. 

Cross-portfolio and industry benchmarking: Assessment of scientific, clinical, market trends and external corporate strategies across disease areas to evaluate opportunities and threats. Leverage innovative and AI-based solutions.

Who You Are

Experience: 

Bachelor’s Degree in life sciences or related discipline; MD, PharmD, MBA or PhD in a life sciences, technical, or analytical discipline is preferred. Proven experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

4+ (CIL) or 7+ (sCIL) years of strategic consulting or relevant experience, including an emphasis on competitive intelligence and strategic analytics.

Skills:

Excellent analytical and synthesis skills with demonstrated ability to interpret data and information from various sources (primary, secondary CI, congress coverage) and translate insights into clear and succinct actionable business recommendations.

Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, effectively communicating complex messages to diverse audiences and engaging with diverse groups of stakeholders in the global organization.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, manage ambiguity and prioritize efforts based on business needs. 

Ability to form trusting relationships and effective collaborations across a broad and diverse group of stakeholders in the global organization.

Certifications/Requirements:

Fluent written and verbal English

Ability to travel up to 30% of the time

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.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.