Medical, License to Operate & Digital Lead (Roche Pharma Romania)

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The Position

The Medical & License to Operate & Digital Lead role is part of the country’s enabling team and is the local delegate of authority of Roche’s Pharma Chief Medical Officer. The role drives scientific, medical and clinical excellence and innovation through strategic leadership, strong cross-functional work, ensuring superior patient outcomes, medical compliance, and collaborative partnerships, while fostering a high performance culture and continuous professional development aligned with enterprise strategies and outcomes.

Your Responsibilities

• Shared responsibility for the affiliate enterprise strategy setting, short, mid and long term outcome definition, prioritization and adequate resourcing as well as compelling delivery of the agreed business objectives
• Facilitates a customer centric approach and seeks opportunities to increase the value of medical information service
• Ensures business success through competitive medical strategies whilst maintaining integrity and preserve the company’s reputation, and ensures medical team members work effectively cross-functional for the benefit of the portfolio centered on patients and anchored in our innovation & science
• Establish and maintain highest medical and scientific rigor in all areas and particularly in our current Therapeutic Areas and builds scientifically sound medical teams capable of making portfolio differentiating decisions 
• Ensures appropriate medical and scientific contribution to the development of competitive and differentiating local and global strategies and tactics across the entire life cycle of our portfolio
• Acts as local integrator of development and license to operate functions namely safety, regulatory, quality, and clinical operations to ensure that development functions work coherently and interactively across  
• Architects, catalyze and coach effective interfaces between medical enablers, safety, quality, regulatory functions and Primary Point of Contact (PPoC)  roles to enable fit-for purpose integrated customer-centric solutions with adherence to the highest ethical, compliance and quality standards
• Accountable for leading and driving the strategic vision for embedding digital inside the organization transforming the actual go-to-market model into a Digital Engagement Model, and leading strategic projects to roll out new digital capabilities and lead the assessments of new technologies

Who You Are

• You hold a University degree in Medicine/Pharmacy or Human Life Science degree with the relevant experience might be considered
• You have good understanding of pharmaceutical business (Business and financial acumen) with profound Medical Affairs experience, local health care system, including regulatory and payer environment
• You have good understanding of medical and strategic aspects of drug development stages; medical strategies including integrated evidence generation, knowledge sharing and scientific collaborations; medical compliance, Health Care Compliance and Quality Assurance Management
• You built experience of practicing clinical medicine and clinical research is a plus
• You have excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate clear messages from complex data/ information
• This position requires full professional proficiency in Romanian. If not proficient, you should demonstrate a willingness to learn the language rapidly in order to meet job demands.

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.