Country Medical Director

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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 health care ecosystem stakeholders and as a consequence we should see accelerated adoption of our transformative medicines as standard of care. 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

• As part of the affiliate leadership team the CMD has a shared responsibility for the affiliate enterprise strategy, short, mid and long term outcomes with an E2E perspective, prioritization and adequate resourcing as well as impactful delivery of the 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 preserve the company's reputation
• Represent Roche and our scientific positions and portfolio as appropriate among key external stakeholders eg. eco-system representatives including politicians, policy makers, scientific partnerships, media interactions, patient advocacy, other pharma companies (individual or association). It is understood that for selected key customers the CMD serves as the primary point of contact with the ambition to drive positive healthcare system changes and where feasible earlier adoption of our transformative medicines
• Act as a role model mastering our VACC framework and ensure medical team members work effectively cross-functional for the benefit of the pipeline and on-market portfolio centered on patients and anchored in our innovation & science
• Establish and maintain highest medical and scientific rigor in all areas, particularly in our 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 catalyze 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 trainings to fulfill our LTO obligations
• Local integrator of affiliate License to Operate (LTO) functions namely clinical operations, regulatory, quality, safety and if applicable biometrics to ensure that affiliate License to Operate functions work coherently and integratively at local level and to cover local and - if applicable - regional accountabilities in line with rules and regulations
• Ensures appropriate risk assessment and issue management in the LTO or Medical Domain via either the Affiliate Medical Compliance Oversight process (SOP 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 rests 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 organizations at all levels
• Functional competencies, including but not limited to organization, prioritization and planning skills, negotiation skills, communication & presentation skills
• Ability to operate successfully in a matrix environment with shared accountability and responsibilities
• Business and financial acumen
• Excellent command of both 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 & people management skills will be considered a big advantage
• Expertise in digital health is a plus
• Understanding of the local healthcare system, incl. 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.

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