Medical Partner

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Job Description 

Medical Partner

Role Purpose

As a Medical Partner, your primary responsibility will involve delivering medical insights to support both medical and commercial initiatives. You will be tasked with developing the medical strategy and facilitating the implementation of initiatives across cross-functional stakeholders, while also enhancing the internal medical and scientific expertise within your designated disease areas. Your role is pivotal in providing medical value to clinician customers by spearheading medical initiatives.

You are expected to exhibit a strong personal commitment to enhancing the healthcare ecosystem, thinking from an enterprise perspective that transcends boundaries and borders. Your focus will be on achieving optimal health outcomes for a larger patient population in a timely manner. Additionally, you will bring a robust entrepreneurial mindset coupled with exceptional collaboration skills to foster effective partnerships. 

In this role, you will

• Serve as a reliable source of medical and scientific insights for the organization, contributing expertise to inform strategic development, initiatives, and projects.

• Develop a comprehensive medical strategy and medical affairs plan, ensuring alignment with disease-specific strategies and integration with the commercial strategies of the business and customer areas.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify, map, and develop relationships with KOLs in the clinical field. Maintain an updated KOL database and relevant tools, and design effective KOL engagement programs. Actively participate in the process of updating clinical guidelines and influencing clinical practices through high-value medical diagnostic solutions.

• Develop medical education programs and contents; deliver and support the medical education initiatives and activities to clinicians and other healthcare stakeholders.

• Identify the evidence gap, develop evidence generation strategy, initiate clinical and scientific studies and drive publication and the use of the evidence in clinical adoption

• Offer medical and scientific insights to external stakeholders to support and facilitate the clinical adoption of diagnostic solutions, while effectively communicating and managing off-label use in response to unsolicited requests.  

• Deliver medical and scientific support for commercial, market access, patient access, and innovation initiatives as needed. 

• Provide training and education to internal stakeholders to build the awareness and expertise on the medical value of diagnostics solutions

• Provide medical governance to the development of medical content, review and approve medical and scientific contents in promotional materials.  

• May act as a coach for colleagues with less experience and provide guidance. Proactively identify opportunities to improve and enhance the target audience experience. Work autonomously; complete work with minimal supervision or guidance but maintain communication with supervisor regarding progress.

Any other tasks or projects as assigned from time to time

Who you are

You are someone who are/have:

• Team player demonstrated by the ability to receive and provide feedback professionally thrive and collaborate in a cross-functional environment 

• Effective communication skills and ability to effectively adjust to a fast-changing environment 

• Detail oriented, meticulous, responsive to deadlines and able to multitask

• Able to efficiently prioritize and delegate tasks in a fast-changing environment 

• Strong client-facing, excellent negotiation, persuasive and interpersonal skills

• Good medical/clinical knowledge and understanding of analytics techniques is desirable 

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Health/Biomedical/Science/ Pharmacy discipline or equivalent from a reputable University

• Experience in clinical, medical and laboratory discipline is required.

• Has more than 5 years of research or clinical experience in relevant disease states or clinical practice (i.e., Cardiology, Pathology, Clinical Chemistry, etc.)

• Proven ability to execute strategies, and track and measurable results.

• Familiarity with the technological trends and their relevance to the healthcare industry

• Marketing and business development experience will be a beneficial

• Strong ability to work in a matrix and collaborative environment

• Excellent team working skills required

• Adaptable to changing environments

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.