Patient Journey Partner, Oncology - Midrand at Roche

Your ambition and profile? 

You demonstrate personal purpose in improving the patient journey, as well as a strong passion to bring value and impact to the healthcare ecosystem. Thanks to your system thinking abilities, you oversee patient journeys in their entirety and you leverage the shared purposes of stakeholders to co-create solutions within the ecosystem.

You are a true visionary, defining and embedding the strategy around creating better health outcomes for more patients faster, bringing a strong entrepreneurial mentality with outstanding partnering capabilities (coaching, consulting, ability to deeply listen, question and understand).

You recognize yourself within these skills characteristics:

• You have a University degree/NQF 7 (scientific, economic, or business degree). An advanced degree in Life science and/or MBA is a plus.
• You have 3 – 5 years of experience in the Pharma Industry with Oncology therapeutic area experience.
• Growth mindset, able to learn and unlearn quickly, take risks and experiment; 
• Self-managed and self-directed; 
• Display integrity in everything;
• Enabler mindset, leveraging the internal and external networks to create value, knowledge sharing and scaling;
• Boldly act on key decisions and opportunities and boldly stop any activity that is not adding value; 
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills including partnering with Therapeutic Area Experts (TAEs) and organisations (required). Experience partnering with Patient Advocacy Groups (PAGs) is highly desired;
• Proved experience in working in a cross-functional team; 
• Strong eye for business with desired expertise in commercialization, medical and customer experience excellence; 
• Experience in agile ways of working; 
• Deep knowledge of patient journey(s) and related treatments in defined disease area(s), enabling engagement at the specialist level
• Broad understanding of Roche’s present portfolio and future pipeline; 
• Robust understanding of medical affairs strategies and tactics including clinical research.
• Practical understanding of digital innovation methodologies.