Medical Manager

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Roche is a company with a 125-year history and our ongoing success is based on our strong focus on delivering meaningful value for our customers and society, and we will need to evolve our offering and approach in order to do so. Health care is changing exponentially due to radical innovation in technology, increased openness to change, increasing patient empowerment, multiple sources of medical information, and pressure on public spending.

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Medical Manager to join our dynamic team at a leading pharmaceutical company. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between clinical developments and commercial teams, ensuring the effective communication of medical insights and the implementation of evidence-based strategies to support the company's product portfolio.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of product science, disease areas, and the competitive landscape.
• Provide medical expertise to the marketing team, assisting in the creation of scientifically accurate materials that comply with regulatory standards.
• Understands the medical ecosystem and innovates on opportunities to shape the medical environment and local clinical practice
• Build mutually respected partnerships with scientific society and with individual TAE’s, drive broad collaboration across all stakeholders
• Provides an expert understanding of Roche & competitor data
• Supports the teams to define and communicate medical value
• Contributes to multi-channel (digitally-enabled) strategies to communicate medical value
• Networks broadly across Roche organization to share insights, best practices and resources
• Uncovers local-evidence gaps & helps to strategically address them
• Champions innovation & new ways of working in balance with ensuring compliance, ethics, and safety of Roche products
• Strategic partner of A&I team, who brings medical ideas and insights to the therapeutic area strategy and projects

Requirements for candidates

• Core understanding of pharmaceutical medicine and science, including data analysis and biostatistics
• Relevant work experience, scientific acumen and communication skills in medical
• Understand health ecosystem (Payers, Health Authorities, PAGs, HCOs)
• Ability to interpret complex science into clinical practice
• Strong networking & relationship builder
• Able to act fast on insights and realizing opportunities, including quick delivery of customer-centric solutions
• Entrepreneurial attitude is essential, e.g. challenges the status quo, takes calculated risks, thinks out of the box
• Seeking soft skills and new technical skills, leveraging digital technology for faster, efficient communication and better outcomes
• Strategic thinking and negotiation skills.
• Strong Interpersonal skills, self-driven and team-player
• Demonstrated ability and strength in agile working principles and methodologies
• Learning, agility and growth mindset
• Capable of speaking, reading and writing in English
• Competencies and expectations
• Works effectively in an agile environment and serving individuals and teams to succeed
• Flexibility - adaptability, versatility, person's ability to easily adapt to new conditions
• Creativity & Innovation - the ability of a person to create any new and innovative ideas, tasks, procedures and solutions to work tasks.
• Knowledge & curiosity of digital trends in healthcare, understands how to leverage digital technologies to deliver medical value
• Teamwork and collaboration– strong team player in the A&I team, effectively collaborate and communicate  within  the A&I team while performing work tasks and takes into account group dynamics
• A sense of ethics and morality - a person who has his or her own personal values associated with the values of the affiliate and applies them and also motivates others to apply them

Qualifications:

• A medical degree (MD) or equivalent; advanced degrees in related fields (e.g., PhD in Pharmacology, Pharmacy) are a plus.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, preferably in medical affairs.
• Strong understanding of clinical research, drug development processes, and regulatory guidelines.
• Excellent