Senior Analyst (Data Strategy & Acquisition)

At Roche you can show up as yourself embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression open dialogue and genuine connections where you are valued accepted and respected for who you are allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche where every voice matters.

Senior Analyst (Data Strategy & Acquisition)

Roche India - Roche Services and Solutions

Hyderabad / Chennai

At Roche you can show up as yourself embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression open dialogue and genuine connections where you are valued accepted and respected for who you are allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche where every voice matters.

The Position

A healthier future. Its what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

Thats what makes us Roche.

As a Senior Data Strategy & Acquisition Analyst within GATE you will be a recognized subject-matter expert on the U.S. healthcare data landscape. You will go beyond responding to requests you will proactively scout evaluate and unlock new data assets that expand what Roches U.S. commercial organization can see and act on. You will operate as a genuine thought partner to U.S. brand market access forecasting field operations and advanced analytics teams across multiple therapeutic areas shaping decisions on multi-million-dollar data investments.

The Opportunity

• Multi-Facet Data Asset Portfolio: Own the evaluation acquisition and lifecycle management of a broad and diverse portfolio of U.S. healthcare data assets claims EHR/EMR and clinical real-world data specialty pharmacy and hub data lab and biomarker/genomic testing data payer and formulary intelligence sales and distribution provider reference and affiliation data patient-level longitudinal data and competitive/market intelligence.
• Proactive Data Scouting & Market Sensing: Continuously track the evolving U.S. data vendor and RWD market new entrants emerging and innovative asset types consolidation and pricing/licensing trends. Bring forward unsolicited recommendations on datasets Roche should consider and on new use cases that existing assets could unlock.
• Therapeutic Area Partnership: Partner with stakeholders across Oncology Ophthalmology Cardiovascular-Renal-Metabolic (CVRM) Neurology Immunology and Rare Disease translating each TAs distinct commercial questions into fit-for-purpose data requirements recognizing that a retina franchise a solid-tumor biomarker-driven brand and a cardiometabolic primary-care brand each demand fundamentally different data strategies.
• Vendor Evaluation & Head-to-Head Benchmarking: Evaluate new and incumbent vendors (eg:-IQVIA Komodo Health Clarivate/DRG MMIT Optum Truveta Flatiron Verana ) on methodology capture and coverage patient/provider linkage recency and lag known biases limitations and fit-for-purpose. Design and run structured bake-offs and overlap analyses rather than relying on vendor claims
• External Partnerships: Act as the primary technical counterpart to external data vendors interrogating source methodologies resolving data quality queries influencing roadmap and enhancement requests and supporting renewal and expansion discussions with an evidence-backed point of view
• Data Profiling & Risk Assessment: Perform hands-on profiling cross-source comparison and validation. Quantify gaps challenge assumptions and provide constructive pushback to ensure alignment with business objectives and realistic expectations of what the data can and cannot support.

Who You Are

Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Life Sciences Pharmacy Bioinformatics Public Health Healthcare Business Analytics Data Analytics Engineering or a related discipline.

Experience: 58 years of relevant experience in pharma/biotech commercial analytics healthcare data strategy life sciences consulting or a healthcare data vendor. Prior experience in a Data acquisition Data strategy Data governance or RWD-evaluation function is strongly preferred.

Multi-Facet Data Asset Exposure (core requirement): You have worked hands-on across several of the following and can speak credibly to the strengths biases and limitations of each:

• Claims: open vs. closed medical vs. pharmacy submits vs. remits switch/clearinghouse vs. payer-sourced (IQVIA LAAD/Dx/PharMetrics Komodo Clarivate) patient-lives coverage payer mix rejection/denial and reversal analytics
• EHR/EMR and clinical RWD: structured vs. unstructured content clinical depth (stage biomarkers labs performance status laterality) health-system coverage bias ambulatory vs. inpatient capture and the NPI/provider-identifier limitations of EHR sources
• Data Linkage: tokenization and patient-level linkage across claims EHR lab and specialty pharmacy assets (e.g. Datavant) and the practical pitfalls of doing so
• Specialty pharmacy hub and distribution data; buy-and-bill dynamics
• Lab diagnostic and biomarker/genomic testing data
• Payer formulary and market access intelligence (MMIT DRG Fingertip Policy Reporter) including coverage policy utilization management and GTN-relevant inputs
• Provider reference and affiliation data (NPI/DEA IQVIA OneKey IDN/GPO and health-system hierarchies) and how it powers HCP/account targeting
• Competitive and market intelligence (Evaluate Citeline Spherix Global Insights Dedham Group)
• Emerging/innovative assets: ambient and digital health data registries SDOH imaging patient-reported and adherence data

Therapeutic Area Exposure: Demonstrated exposure to either of Oncology (solid tumor and/or heme; biomarker testing staging lines of therapy pathways) Ophthalmology (Imaging and registry data such as IRIS/Verana) or CVRM (cardiovascular metabolic and obesity lab-value-driven segmentation such as HbA1c/LDL/eGFR high-volume PCP targeting). Rare disease neurology or immunology exposure is a strong plus.

Analytical & Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving with meticulous attention to detail. You engage stakeholders consultatively ask the sharp clarifying question before proposing a solution and synthesize complexity into clear recommendations and so what insights

Technical Skills: Proficient in SQL or similar technology for independent extraction profiling and validation on large patient-level datasets. Comfortable in creating a visualizations in any industry wide known platforms.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 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.

Lets build a healthier future together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.