Country Medical Director

Roche Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark Country Medical Director 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 The CMD drives scientific, medical and clinical excellence and innovation through strategic leadership, strong cross‑functional interactions and continuous engagement with the scientific community and key healthcare ecosystem stakeholders. The CMD ensures medical compliance and superior patient outcomes while fostering a high‑performance culture and continuous professional development of the Medical team. The CMD is part of the affiliate’s leadership team. Core Accountabilities Strategic Leadership - Shared responsibility for the affiliate enterprise strategy, short, mid and long‑term outcomes with an E2E perspective, prioritisation and adequate resourcing and impactful delivery of agreed business objectives. - Ensure business success through competitive medical strategies built from fit‑for‑purpose evidence generation, value demonstration, scientific data positioning and dissemination whilst maintaining integrity and preserving the company’s reputation. - Represent Roche and our scientific positions and portfolio as appropriate among key external stakeholders such as ecosystem representatives, politicians, policy makers, scientific partnerships, media interactions, patient advocacy, and other pharma companies. - Act as a role model mastering our VACC framework and ensure medical team members work effectively cross‑functionally for the benefit of the pipeline and on‑market portfolio centred on patients and anchored in our innovation & science. - Establish and maintain highest medical and scientific rigor in all areas, particularly in the current 5 therapeutic areas and 11 diseases with E2E leadership. - Build scientifically sound medical teams capable of making portfolio differentiating decisions that translate into clinical practice adoption and broad access to our portfolio in full alignment with country opportunities and challenges. - Ensure medical and scientific contribution to the development of competitive and differentiating local and global strategies and appropriate locally adapted execution of tactics across the entire life cycle of our portfolio – overall balancing rigor and speed. - Enhance local and cross‑country scientific activities to accelerate advocacy, community engagement, clinical adoption and access to our portfolio. - Support and foster integrated outcome‑based customer experience based on customers’ needs informing scientific and medical interventions that catalyse clinical practice adoption and advocacy. License to Operate Champion - Assurance of medical compliance as the local delegate of authority of Roche’s Pharma CMO. - Accountable for appropriate resourcing and qualification of employees in Medical Functions and their adherence to assigned training to fulfil LTO obligations. - Local integrator of affiliate LTO functions – clinical operations, regulatory, quality, safety and if applicable biometrics – ensuring coherent and integrative work at local level and coverage of local and – where applicable – regional accountabilities in line with rules and regulations. - Ensures appropriate risk assessment and issue management in the LTO or Medical Domain via the Affiliate Medical Compliance Oversight process or via formed fit‑for‑purpose cross‑functional teams. - Accountable for the appropriate approval process of non‑promotional and promotional materials ensuring compliance with applicable local and global requirements. Accountable for the strategic and appropriate provision of medical grants, sponsorships and donations. - Developing Digital Health solutions locally has a high complexity and compliance risks, thus the CMD is accountable to ensure adherence to quality standards, rules and regulations. Considerations of the risks, the portfolio fit and/or desired return of investment rest with the affiliate leadership team. Competencies / Experience / Qualifications Competencies - Demonstration of Roche values, leadership commitments and core competencies. - Forward‑thinking and innovative. - Ability to work across organisations at all levels. - Functional competencies, including but not limited to organisation, prioritisation and planning skills, negotiation skills, communication and presentation skills. - Ability to operate successfully in a matrix environment with shared accountability and responsibilities. - Business and financial acumen. - Excellent command of written and spoken English with strong communication skills. Experience - Solid understanding of pharmaceutical business with profound Medical Affairs experience including medical scientific and strategic aspects of drug development and commercialization and Medical Compliance, including experience and knowledge on GCP, GVP, medical device regulations and healthcare compliance. - Affiliate experience and people management skills considered a big advantage. - Expertise in digital health is a plus. - Understanding of the local healthcare system, including regulatory and payer environment is a plus. Education - A medical degree is required. Who we are A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 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. Let’s build a healthier future, together. Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr