Patient Journey Partner

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. It is 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. That is what makes us Roche.

• A full-time permanent patient journey focused position
• An opportunity to make a difference in NZ healthcare ecosystem
• Agile and flexible work setting within a dynamic team

The PJP is an empowered leader and the local face of Roche. They partner closely with all stakeholders directly touching the patient journey in a given therapeutic area (including but not limited to healthcare professionals academics patient advocacy groups and patients) gaining a deep understanding of their needs in order to connect Roches capabilities to co-create meaningful solutions.

Key responsibilities include

• Brings the outside into Roche - working with partners to uncover potential opportunities that can transform outcomes for patients faster. You also bring the inside out via Roche expertise science and knowledge to the NZ Healthcare ecosystem.
• Acts as a trusted partner and is the primary (but non-exclusive) point of contact between external stakeholders and Roche.
• Stewards Roches products through their lifecycle and supports their appropriate use which includes proactively and reactively sharing scientific educational and non-promotional information with stakeholders in a truthful and balanced manner.
• Partners with patient journey stakeholders to remove roadblocks and unlock possibilities to deliver value for patients and the community.
• Leads the local disease area strategy andcoordinating in collaboration with others to ensure optimal planning and resource allocation coordinated omnichannel customer engagement disease area partnerships and launch excellence in order to execute on local regional and global outcomes.
• Manage activities such as compassionate use pre-license access grants external materials clinical trial support local evidence generation etc. to a high standard with the oversight and approval of functional enablers.

Qualifications Skills & Experience

• You have a university degree (scientific economics or business) with practical understanding of digital innovation methodologies. An advanced degree in life science and/or MBA is a plus.
• You have substantial experience in collaborating with healthcare professionals and patient advocacy groups and have strong customer engagement focus across multiple therapy areas. Experience within the field of Breast Cancer would be a plus.
• Growth mindset and deep understanding of patient journey(s) and related treatments in a therapeutic area enabling engagement at the specialist level.
• You are strategic in the way you think and a deep listener who is passionate about building and collaborating internally with therapeutic area experts and related organizations.
• You have demonstrated experience in leading projects and cross-functional teams including experience or strong understanding of agile ways of working and orchestrating cross-functional teams and strategies.
• Strong business acumen with desired expertise in commercialization medical and customer experience excellence.
• Excellent verbal and written English communications skills
• Flexibility creativity and enthusiasm

This role is only open to candidates that have full eligibility to live and work in New Zealand.

We do not accept any unsolicited resumes or enquiries from recruitment agencies. Roche has a dedicated in-house Talent Acquisition team.

What we offer

Roche offers rewarding growth opportunities a competitive remuneration package and a collaborative culture where people are united in purpose and will stretch you to be brave speak up and think differently. Feel empowered to deliver meaningful outcomes supported by accessible and inspiring leaders.

Roche encourages a high-performance culture where you are empowered and trusted to make decisions. We strive for excellence and extraordinary results and take a genuine interest in our people and their well-being and our patients.

Take pride in knowing you can make a difference to millions of patients worldwide in developing diagnostics and treatments for oncology neuroscience inflammation immunology ophthalmology rare diseases respiratory disease and diabetes.

We are committed to providing an inclusive safe secure and healthy workplace and to minimise any such impactsto our employees customers and the community. We welcome applications from all people and encourageyou to advise of any individual circumstances that may require consideration.

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.