Global Medical Collaboration Leader - Neuroscience

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The Position

The Opportunity

The Global Medical Collaboration Leader (GMCL) is a medical, global, field-based role working across countries and affiliates to accelerate the development and delivery of medicines to patients through effective medical customer engagement across the lifecycle of a molecule/Disease Area (DA). In this role, you will be based in Italy and will work closely with the Italian Roche affiliate, in the Neuroscience area.

There are 5 major responsibilities in this role:
1. Develops and facilitates relationships and collaborative networks with external stakeholders ensuring Roche is the preferred partner and championing a ONE Roche approach

• Drives scientific knowledge exchange with global experts and across scientific networks at global and affiliate level
• Establishes and maintains scientific collaborations with key external stakeholders (including patient organisations, scientific societies, academia, policy and access stakeholders)
• Identifies and progresses key opportunities for increased collaboration and cooperation and overcomes barriers to facilitate collaborations between customers and the organisation

2. Engages and educates investigators and site staff to enable and expedite the successful delivery of clinical development programmes

• Drives scientific engagement with clinical trial sites to support patient recruitment and retention by ensuring confidence and motivation of site staff across the development programme(s).
• Gathers investigator feedback and insights to optimise clinical development performance and customer experience
• Discusses and supports IISs, compassionate use programmes and data strategies that support access activities (until release of pivotal data)

3. Provides real-time insights and ground level understanding of the disease area landscape across countries to better inform cross-functional strategies

• Builds a comprehensive understanding of the local environment
• Executes insights gathering activities to address knowledge gaps (including advisory boards, steering committees, etc)
• Ensures the customer perspective is incorporated in strategic and tactical decisions

4. Partners with global cross-functional colleagues and affiliates to enhance launch readiness in assigned countries

• Accelerates affiliate understanding of the disease area ecosystem and supports understanding and alignment with the global strategy to drive effective affiliate planning and decision making
• Acts as disease area champion and advocate in the assigned affiliates
• Supports the local implementation of field-based activities of the global medical plan in compliance with all local requirements

5. Contributes to the high performance and innovation of the Global Medical Collaboration community to optimise customer experience and to evolve to meet the needs of the organisation

Who you are

• Required: University degree in science or related field. Highly desirable: Postgraduate degree (PhD, PharmD, MSc, MD, MBA)
• At least 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or related industries in a global or affiliate role, with at least 2 years of experience in a medical/scientific, customer-facing, field role
• Desired: Deep scientific knowledge/experience in Neuroscience (especially Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases)
• Experience in Medical Affairs, Product Development or Early Development is essential, including understanding and experience of processes and procedures for clinical trial engagement for corporate sponsored and independent supported studies
• Fluency both in written and spoken English and written and spoken Italian is mandatory. Fluency in German is desirable.
• Passion for Customer Centricity and External Medical Engagement
• Strategic skills and system awareness are critical for this role, liaising with teams within Global Medical Affairs, Global Product Development, Global Research & Early Develop