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Purpose

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 Patient Journey Partner (PJP) is at the center of the new Roche organization, turning upside down the role we play in society - from mostly offering world-class medicines towards much more partnering, innovating and leading generative disruption. By doing so the PJP will be directly accountable to deliver better outcomes for patients, their community, the ecosystem and the organization, faster.

The PJP is the local face of Roche. She/he partners closely with all stakeholders touching the patient journey, gaining a deep understanding of their needs in order to connect Roche’s capabilities to co-create meaningful solutions.

The PJP demonstrates personal purpose around improving the patient journey, 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 the local health environment, and more broadly, across Roche globally.

This role is locally embedded in the ecosystem, it is an integrated role, functionally agnostic, (i.e. it does not fit into the traditional concepts of Commercial/Sales or Medical Affairs).

It has no profitability, sales objectives or incentives.

Your challenges

The Patient Journey Partner is a senior level role within the affiliate, who has decision making authority to request resources of Roche (both within the affiliate and broader network) in order to have improved impact on the patient journey by:

• Defining the strategy of the disease area for the UAE healthcare system.

• Focusing on the importance of bringing the outside in, working with partners to uncover all potential opportunities to transform outcomes for patients, faster. PJP also brings the inside out, to bring Roche expertise, science and knowledge to the ecosystem.

• Acting as trusted partner and primary (but non-exclusive) point of contact between stakeholders and Roche; the PJP shares the patient and stakeholder community needs internally, prioritizes and secures resources, and drives solutions that deliver outcomes faster.

• Partnering with patient journey stakeholders to remove roadblocks and unlock possibilities to deliver value for patients and the community.

• Stewarding Roche’s products through their lifecycle and supporting their appropriate use, which includes sharing their merits with HCPs in a truthful and balanced manner.

• The role is empowered to pull in expertise and resources locally and from the network as needed, including in collaboration with other PJPs.

Who You Are

- Visionary: defining and embedding the strategy around creating improved patient journeys

- Strong entrepreneurial mindset with outstanding partnering capabilities (coaching, consulting, ability to deeply listen, question and understand)

- 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.

- 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. Ability to say “No” to stakeholders when the value is not predictable/foreseen.

- University degree in Pharmacy

- An advanced degree in Life science and/or MBA is a plus.

- Demonstrated experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

- Experience in rare diseases is a plus.

- Well-rounded experience in product/medical/access/account management is a must.

- Strong business acumen with broad experience (e.g. sales, marketing, medical affairs, customer experience excellence)

- System thinker and deep listener.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills including partnering with TAE's and organizations is required.

- Experience collaborating with Cross-functional teams is required.

- Able to understand and leverage digital means and tools is desired.

- Deep understanding of patient journey(s) and related treatments in defined disease area(s), enabling engagement at the specialist level.

Other relevant capabilities:

- Fluent in English.

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.