Global Access Engagement and Reimbursement Leader - Roche Diagnostics

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

At Roche, we commit ourselves to achieving access to medical and diagnostics innovations for all. Together with our regional and country organizations, we are building health systems ready to provide the future of care and make access a reality, thus, enabling people and patients around the world to live their best lives. 

This global leadership position is responsible for bringing our diagnostics solutions to the forefront of care and growing access, reimbursement and funding effectively for our established portfolio as well as our ground breaking innovations. 

The incumbent will closely collaborate with the global functions in Medical, Commercial, Market Access and Health System Policy enabling our affiliates to effectively co-design and apply the global tools, setting specific access targets in their respective environments and pulling through effective plans for their realization in mutual accountability. 

As you are versatile in many environments and wish to impact external access delivery, you will closely accompany affiliates in their efforts to build the health system of tomorrow. Through this lived proximity to market realities, you will enable better global tools and deliverables, always pushing for the next level in furthering our affiliate support.
 

The Opportunity
 

Your responsibilities include: 

• Market Analysis and Opportunity Identification: Research and analyze access coverage, reimbursement levels, health and payer policies, competitive access landscapes to identify business opportunities enabled through access and assess the probability and impact of affecting positive change.

• Access Insight and Strategy Development: Apply expertise in consolidating and providing relevant access insights and supporting the development and execution of global access strategies and impactful access tools including the Access Reimbursement Toolkit.

• Strategic Access Engagement Leadership: Act as a catalyst and coach for regional and affiliate implementation of global access strategies, identifying gaps, tailoring approaches, and accelerating time to reimbursement and the effective funding for your prioritized products.

• Global-Regional-Affiliate Interface: Create frameworks for efficient transfer of global strategies and catalyze learning, sharing, and collaboration across organizations and territories by leading the Access Nexus pilot of your area - our key interface to the Regions and Countries driving your work in achieving reimbursement and funding.

• Affiliate Support: Support regions and affiliates in executing payer-relevant access approaches, addressing access, reimbursement and funding barriers holistically, and leading projects to enhance local access capabilities with delivering tangible business growth through the realization of access opportunities.

• Shaping Sustainable Healthcare Systems: Support regions and affiliates in building plans and networks that aim for the creation of sustainable Health Care Systems in affecting the regulatory frameworks of payers, Health Technology Assessment bodies and their advising network.

• Requires travel of up to 20%

Who you are 

• Master’s degree in business economics, life sciences, public health, marketing, or a related discipline; additional educational programs in market access preferred

• 5+ years of commercial and/or access experience in the diagnostic/pharmaceutical or related industry. Additional experience in related functions such as Strategy, Marketing, or Health Policy preferred. Combined experience at both affiliate and global levels preferred.

• Deep knowledge of the Access landscape and country archetypes in healthcare systems around the world such as the US, EU5, China and Japan and a strong mindset of growth and continuous learning. In-depth understanding of payers and their value drivers as well as trends in Access, Pricing & Reimbursement and Policy. 

• Strong relationships with key access stakeholders, decision-makers, and influencers in key healthcare systems

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a matrix environment and lead diverse teams through smart leadership. 

• Pushing the boundaries by applying an innovation driven mindset

• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English and another relevant language

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.