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Medical/Scientific Partner - East Africa  

The Opportunity:

The Medical/Scientific Partner is a strategic partner of the Affiliate business, a Scientific/Medical expert, and citizen of the Medical Affairs Network. With deep medical affairs expertise, evidence generation and disease area knowledge, strategically integrates insights and data from the healthcare ecosystem to advance to our North Star, creating value for Patients, for the Health System, and, at the same time for Roche. 

You act as an active strategic partner within an ecosystem by integrating insights and data from the healthcare ecosystem and connecting them with Roche strategic imperatives to bring innovation to our patients, through the definition and implementation of strategic roadmaps particularly at the Affiliate level. You are instrumental in driving activities to enable our pipeline of molecules and solutions e.g. support to Clinical Trial execution, Evidence Generation activities, and bringing them to market.

You are a medical/ scientific expert who maintains and provides internally and externally adequate scientific and clinical expertise in assigned Disease areas and the patient journey, including pipeline products, diagnostics, and digital healthcare solutions as applicable and you support or lead key tactics by providing scientific expertise e.g. advisory boards, medical education, speaker briefings, preparation of reimbursement dossiers, close collaboration with other functions, and engaging with external stakeholders when required.

You build and leverage your scientific acumen to enable the integration of solutions in the healthcare system including Scientific Exchange,  analyze and interpret medical data, generate value-based communication tailored to customer needs, leverage existing resources in the organization, and in addition you contribute to medical education, co-create high value-added continuing medical educational programs for external stakeholders as well as supporting onboarding and internal education/training programs to the affiliate’s Primary Points of Contact and other enabler roles 

You collaborate with the Access, Policy, Advocacy, PHC, and Communication partners, providing relevant scientific expertise and strategic partnership and you monitor all activities and information in the field of Medical Information and ensure the quality of local medical information service, compliant with Roche Global and Local procedures and local legislation.

 As a member of the Medical Affairs Network for Evidence Generation (MANEGe), you have a key role in the process of evidence generation (EG), particularly in identifying and communicating potential evidence gaps and EG needs, and prioritization within the Disease Area team, to inform iEP and support data generation plans including phase IV studies, registries etc. Includes early engagement with internal and external key stakeholders to identify data generation needs and gaps.  

You are a key strategic scientific partner to engage with external stakeholders to enable successful clinical trials execution Supports conduct of Roche clinical trials and other data generation activities, including participation in site feasibility activities, pre-activation site visits and interactions with the sites as needed, patient recruitment & retention, protocol & patient-related issues, scientific communication of study results, clinical study report and scientific publications. You serve as the scientific bridge and point of contact with the investigator for clinical research. Support & execute and/or participate in local evidence-generation projects.

You ensure the highest ethical, scientific and quality standards, for patients’ safety and safeguarding Roche’s reputation by providing medical review for external materials and communications as well as the review and approval process of grants and donations and final approval for research grants as per local medical information regulations and Roche policies and SOPs, ensuring proper responses to unsolicited requests. In addition, you maintain awareness of the company’s requirements to fully report adverse events and other reportable drug safety and product complaint information. You provide Operational governance and oversight of local functions to ensure Market Research and Patient Support Programs are initiated and executed according to applicable quality standards by the respective program owners. You are the local process owner for the Medical clearing process of all promotional and non-promotional materials and provide local training as applicable 

Lead the connection and leveraging of Roche resources from across the Global Organization to fully harness our potential to improve patient outcomes while leveraging enterprise thinking and collaborating with all internal stakeholders to deliver scientific value to external partners

Who you are

You bring leadership skills and unfold key mindsets, particularly: The enabler mindset, a growth mindset with a Value Creation mindset. 

You have strategic Planning skills and the ability to focus and prioritize in uncertain and changing environments, operational efficiency in managing multiple projects

You have a strong understanding of the healthcare system environment, including healthcare policy, the reimbursement environment, and health technology assessment environment coupled with a robust understanding of pharmaceutical drug development, medical affairs strategies and tactics including clinical research and main industry medical compliance processes.

Dedicated DA and product, and competition knowledge. Understanding of fast-paced, highly competitive market dynamics and a good understanding and interest in state-of-the-art trends of digital health. You have strong data comprehension, critical appraisal, synthesis interpretation, and delivery of data/information skills

You possess Evidence generation and GxP knowledge coupled with Scientific and Publication management skills coupled with your understanding of Roche PHC (Personalized Healthcare) vision and strategy and embedding it in everyday work.

 You have strong communication skills with proficiency in English (verbal and written communication)

You hold an MD degree; PharmD, PhD or Bachelor’s degree in science, biology, immunology and Clinical expertise in the Disease Area is appreciated.

Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience, within a Medical Affairs role in Pharmaceutical, Diagnostics, Health Sciences or Biotechnology is preferred, as well as prior experience in the disease area.

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