Head of Medical Excellence

About the Role Head of Medical Excellence at Roche leading strategic alignment, cross-functional medical affairs programs, and operational excellence to advance medical initiatives and ensure timely delivery of strategic priorities across Medical Affairs.

What You'll Do

• Drive alignment and coordination of goals, priorities, and efforts for the Medical Affairs Department.
• Establish and maintain a structure for co-creation and co-execution of WBO.
• Develop and support the Medical Affairs team around future-looking vision, mission and strategic initiatives.
• Lead cross-therapeutic areas and functions strategic programs to support Medical Affairs priorities.
• Lead in working across boundaries within the broader organization and cross-functional team to establish excellent ways of working/ process workflows.
• Enable the implementation of strategic priorities with a closed-loop management approach.
• Lead in developing integrated medical plan across Medical Affairs department to prioritize tasks to ensure strategic focus and timely execution of deliverables.
• Enable the operational effectiveness of Medical Affairs to manage complexity and oversee the performance; Responsibility for development & delivery of medical dashboard and associated metrics with cross-functional teams by timely collection, reporting and aligned interpretation of performance metrics and key activities across Medical Affairs department.
• Organize regular meetings and activities, ensuring seamless coordination across value chains.
• Gather and prepare internal and external information for the Medical Affairs Head to facilitate key business decisions and generate important speeches/slides.
• Drive development of Medical Affairs competencies; Oversight of Medical Affairs professional development and training both in terms of technical as well as soft skills.
• People development and management to building up the capacity and capability of medical excellence team by providing coaching and feedback to team members.

What We're Looking For

• Master’s degree and above with Medical, R&D, Marketing, Access or Corporate strategy experience in Pharmaceutical or related industry. MBA or top consulting firm background is a plus.
• Have experience in people leadership.
• A VACC (visionary, architect, coach, catalyst) leader.
• Ability to influence and manage in a matrix organization.
• Ability to build an effective team and handle difficult people issues.
• Excellent influential, communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration capability.
• Self-motivated.
• Strategic agility with innovative approaches.
• Deep understanding of medical affairs value to the whole business, customer and patients.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Mandarin and English.
• Confident in communication with management team, ability to partner and connect with people from all levels of the medical organization.
• Good strategic agility and analytic capability.
• Have the ability to see the big picture as well as the sensitivity to critical details.
• Track record in project management and problem-solving skills to handle complexity.
• High learning agility and open-minded and able to work under pressure.
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