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The Position
1. The TAL Mission
- Health care is changing: Radical innovation increased openness to change increasing patient empowerment multiple sources of medical information and pressure on public spending. As a result of all this the needs of our stakeholders continue to evolve.
- The TAL is a vital element in building a vibrant and impactful network that serves patients with urgency. It is an empowered leader that is a key connector broker and catalyst.
- The TAL deeply understands the needs of the external ecosystems as also articulated by the PJPs and ensures rapid solutions that deliver sustainable outcomes adapting existing solutions from around the globe or cocreating new solutions that leverage fluid resources and skills
- The Therapeutic Area Lead (TAL) is at the center of the new Roche organization. Their purpose is to enable the PJPs in their mission to turn upside down the role we play in society from mostly offering worldclass medicines towards much more partnering innovating and leading generative disruption. By doing so the TAL will ensure we deliver better outcomes for patients their community the ecosystem and the organization faster.
- The role is based within Roche Ukraine affiliate but works also in the network quickly leveraging the whole of Roche knowledge and resources to deliver cross country solutions.
2. Responsibilities
The TAL is a key role in the affiliate who works also within the Network. It is an empowered leader that is a key connector broker and catalyst. Seeking and owning solutions that will have a direct and broad impact on the patient.
- Acts as trusted partner and is the primary (but nonexclusive) point of contact between stakeholders and Roche; the TAL shares the patient and stakeholder community needs internally prioritizes and secures resources and drives solutions that deliver outcomes faster.
- Ensuring great experiences whenever stakeholders in the ecosystem engage with Roche employees products and services with focus on national level customers. up to 40% (including up to 20% customerfacing activities)
- Translates customers needs into a clear vision and achievable outcomes (short mid and long term)
- Ensure financial resources for the outcomes package. Adept at securing people and financial resources to support solution delivery.
- Accountable for ensuring work on outcomes packages will be done and delivered timely.
- Embodies the Network and Ecosystem Manifesto and holds others accountable. Ensures team rituals are implemented
- Ensure development of PJPs in squads following practices of learning organization.
- Accountable for ensuring contribution to additional solutions that are needed for ecosystem development (eg HTA PSP other access solutions). Ensures others are able to find and implement impactful solutions faster.
- Supports the Ukrainian PJPs in setting the DA/TA or other relevant communication strategy and creation/adaptation of local Therapeutic Areas messages / materials / communication content for digital platforms in collaboration with Digital
- Provide support in localization and adaptation of a global strategy to a clear strategy on how to identify leverage scale adapt or cocreate solutions based on customer needs in Ukraine
- Maximization of the network through close collaboration with customers directly and via PJPs.
- Constantly builds a network proactively including participating in cross country Disease Area Pods and / or building / participating in CoPs as well as connecting between DAs at a local level for system opportunities.
Collaboration
- This role will work in a selfmanaged team of peers who ensure that they hold each other accountable to effectively deliver solutions for the ecosystems.
- Collaborates closely with Ukrainian Public affairs healthcare sustainability and PAGs collaboration partner and other colleagues.
3. Mindset & Behaviors/ VACC
The TAL demonstrates personal purpose around serving the patient as well as strong passion to create value and impact on the ecosystem. They think from an Enterprise level beyond boundaries and borders in order to bring best possible outcomes to both their local health environment and across Roche globally.
- Very Strong enterprise mindset We before Me
- Very strong entrepreneurial mindset with outstanding partnering capabilities (coaching consulting ability to deeply listen question and understand)
- Is a catalyst and mobilizes appropriate resources around common goals / outcomes to generate valuable ecosystem solutions by mobiliser building and maintaining open and transparent relationships with PJPs/HSPs and internal / external stakeholders and the wider network
- Growth mindset able to learn and unlearn quickly take risks and experiment and contribute to the learning cycle by sharing knowledge with others inside and outside Roche
- Is humble and eager to learn from others
- Is a system thinker (with feet on the ground)
- Self managed and self directed altruistic in supporting the global network
- Display of integrity in everything (i.e. open honest ethical and genuine)
- Boldly acts on key decisions and opportunities and boldly stops any activity that is not adding value.
- Supporting and challenging PJPs in prioritization.
- Navigates all activities in a systematic and compliant way.
4. Experiences Knowledge and Qualifications
Skills and Experience:
- Significant experience in the pharmaceutical/ biotechnology industry in commercial medical or access leadership roles or multidisciplinary experience
- Significant healthcare customerfacing experience preferably in more than one country and with strong local market understanding
- Proven effective agile fitforpurpose leadership of crossfunctional teams
- Experience in agile ways of working and methodologies
- Role model and ability to demonstrate Roche Values Leadership Commitments and Core Competencies
- Cultural and organizational agility comfortable and track record of operating and influencing in all directions in a global network/matrix environment
- Able to understand and leverage digital means and tools is desired
Knowledge:
- Deep understanding of defined disease area(s) enabling engagement with PPOCs to understand needs.
- Solid understanding of Roches network to quickly explore and connect with existing solutions.
Other relevant capabilities:
- Fluent in Ukrainian and English to collaborate effectively
Preferred Qualifications:
- University degree.
- Practical understanding of digital innovation methodologies
- Product Owner/Scrum Master and Coaching qualifications are desirable
Who we are
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 lifechanging healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Lets build a healthier future together.
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