International Strategic Healthcare Consultant at Roche

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Roche Diagnostics in Midrand is seeking an International Strategic Healthcare Consultant to develop and deliver Strategic Roche Healthcare Consulting projects for key stakeholders. Our ideal candidate comes from the Healthcare consulting space. This vacancy is an opportunity to co-create value with our clients to deliver thought and market leadership. It is also a role that directly involves the successful applicant  steering, shaping and transforming healthcare on the continent

Key Responsibilities
Healthcare Consulting Sustainability

• To manage the preparation of the offers for consultancy services towards the customers by providing the brief, reviewing the draft or drafting proposals and providing input as required.
• To create mutually beneficial business partnerships/arrangements with the customers by identifying, researching, analyzing and making recommendations and negotiating strategic alliances as required.
• To drive new business by identifying, analyzing and comparing alternative opportunities for entering new markets and adopting new consulting services as required.

Strategic Consultancy Delivery

• To analyse and improve healthcare and clinical processes, gathering the related data necessary for the development of business cases for decision-making from healthcare management.
• To participate in the development of strategies, contracts, creation of projects and providing specialized consulting services in support of customer relationships.       
• To create a shared vision with the customer team by supporting them with change management and implementation as required.
• To oversee project implementation by leading strategic consulting projects and coaching the customer team to reach their goals with tangible outcomes and cost-benefit analysis as required.
• To lead functional teams on customer projects or assignments.
• To monitor delivery by generating reports with different scenarios, analyzing impact on the healthcare outcome, finance, structure, resources and articulating collaborative recommendations showing investments and ROI as required.
• To resolve complex customer problems by looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and facilitate implementation of solutions as required.
• To review different options for optimizing internal processes and patient flows by analyzing the patient-reported outcomes including Cost Effectiveness Analysis & Budget Impact Analysis, identifying areas for improvement and making recommendations as required.
• To support customer needs by conducting regular status and strategy meetings with the customer’s senior management to understand their needs and link them to the organization’s strategy as required.
• To identify and manage appropriate resources, external and international team support to deliver consultancy packages as required.

Stakeholder Relations

• To maintain the organization’s ongoing relationships with Health Authorities and stakeholders by continuously engaging them and addressing their queries as required.
• To contribute meaningfully in the International RHC community by regularly attending and contributing content to meetings and initiatives and by participating on international projects.

Financial Management

• To monitor finance of strategic projects by understanding financial statements and reports and connecting activities with the outcomes in the financial statements and working and interacting closely with the CFO as required.

You, as an ideal candidate, will have the following skills, experience and education:

• NQF 7/8 in a Science related field or similar.
• 3-5 years experience in sales or marketing in the healthcare / pharmaceutical or medical environment, ideally in the consulting space. Extensive experience in having dealt with c-suite level staff is a requirement.