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The Position

To strengthen Roche Ukraines role as a trusted transparent and long-term partner of the Ukrainian healthcare ecosystem by building authentic collaborations with patient organizations.
Patients Associations Engagement Lead (PAL) ensures that patients voices and lived experiences inform Roches strategy supporting access to innovation disease awareness and health-system resilience in Ukraine.

Key Responsibilities

1. Patient-organization engagement

Map and prioritize national and regional patient associations across Roches key therapeutic areas (oncology rare diseases neuroscience ophthalmology).

Build long-term trust-based partnerships guided by Roche values and compliance standards.

Co-create awareness and education projects that improve patient literacy empowerment and access to care.

Ensure all collaborations are transparent documented and publicly disclosed according to EFPIA codes of ethics and Ukrainian legislation.

2. Advocacy and ecosystem development

Collaborate with patient associations leaders and healthcare NGOs to identify policy and access barriers; co-develop proposals for improvement.

Support patient organizations capacity-building (training data communication networking).

Contribute to Roche Ukraines footprint communication showcasing how patient collaboration drives systemic impact.

3. Internal partnership

Act as the link between patients and internal teams (Medical Affairs Market Access Communications Public Affairs).

Bring patient insights into strategic discussions access dossiers and public affairs initiatives.

Train internal colleagues on ethical engagement and patient-centered decision-making.

4. Compliance and governance

Guarantee full adherence to Roches global and local compliance frameworks.

Manage and archive all interactions agreements and support grants transparently.

Promote internal culture of integrity in all patient interactions.

Core Competencies

Strategic

Ecosystem mapping stakeholder engagement healthcare policy insight

Relational

Empathy diplomacy trust-building cross-sector collaboration

Operational

Project management documentation outcome tracking

Ethical & Governance

Mastery of EFPIA local ethical codes transparency principles

Communication

Storytelling facilitation public representation bilingual communication

Cultural

Sensitivity to Ukraines healthcare realities and resilience context

Ideal Background

Education: Medicine Pharmacy Public Health Sociology or Communications.

Experience: 35 years in patient relations healthcare NGOs or corporate affairs.

Proven record of successful partnership with patient groups or public-health programs.

Strong understanding of Ukrainian healthcare reform patient advocacy ecosystem and European best practices.

Fluent Ukrainian and English

Personality & Mindset

Deep respect for patients lived experience and advocacy voice.

Transparent ethical emotionally intelligent communicator.

Network-oriented: connects people and initiatives for shared outcomes.

Balanced mindset combines corporate accountability with social purpose.

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 life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Lets build a healthier future together.

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