Job Description

The Position The PJP Mission

• 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, reiterating our new and evolved role in society - from mostly offering world-class medicines towards much more partnering, innovating and leading health system transformation. 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 an empowered leader and the local face of Roche. She or he partners closely with all stakeholders directly touching the patient journey across Oncology/Hematology and/or other Disease Areas gaining a deep understanding of their needs in order to connect Roche’s capabilities to co-create meaningful solutions, customized based on the level of maturity of institutions in partnership with the Health Systems Partner/HSP based on overall strategic goals.
• The PJP is a patient journey expert across therapy and disease areas, and is a patient journey strategy owner.
• 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)
• The PJP works together with other PJPs leveraging synergies across ecosystems

Responsibilities

• The PJP acts as a trusted partner and is the primary point of contact for Health Care Practitioners (HCP) and Health Care Providers to partner with patient journey stakeholders. Working with partners to uncover all potential opportunities to transform outcomes for patients, faster.
• The PJP focuses to bring Roche expertise, science and knowledge to the ecosystem. Stewards Roche’s products through their lifecycle and supports their appropriate use, which includes sharing their merits with HCPs in a truthful and balanced manner.
• Brings in insights from regular market and HCP engagements, including customer visits, market and data analytics, to identify gaps and opportunities, to translate to solutions.
• PJP shares the patient and stakeholder community needs internally to Roche, prioritizes and secures resources, and drives solutions that deliver outcomes faster. The PJP is a strong contributor, and co-develops the disease and therapy area strategies of the affiliate.
• The PJP will help drive Personalized Health Care and works with HSPs for enablement. One Roche is his/her mindset and is a must-win..
• The role is empowered to pull in expertise and resources locally and from the network as needed, including in collaboration with other PJPs and HSPs, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, etc.
• Accountability on delivering outcomes in therapeutic areas within the ecosystem.

Mindset and Behaviors 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. Mindset:

• Strong entrepreneurial mindset with outstanding partnering capabilities.
• 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
• Self managed and self directed
• Display of integrity in everything
• Enabler mindset leveraging the internal and external networks to create value, sharing back and scaling.
• 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.

Skills and Experience:

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills including partnering.
• Strong business acumen with desired expertise in commercialization, medical and customer experience excellence
• Able to understand and leverage digital means and tools is desired
• Deep experience in agile ways of working is desired
• Strategic agility
• System thinker and deep listener

Knowledge:

• Deep understanding 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, such that they can work on future-based solutions
• Robust understanding of medical affairs strategies and tactics including clinical research

Other relevant capabilities:

• Proficient in English to collaborate internally across the broader Roche enterprise is highly desired
• The role will be required to travel to the South Visayas region (based in Manila) for about 70% traveling percentage
• Candidates coming from the Visayas region is an advantage

Preferred Qualifications:

• University degree (scientific, economic, or business degree). An advanced degree in Life science and/or MBA is a plus.
• Practical understanding of digital innovation methodologies.
• Commercial (Sales & Marketing) & Medical experience with at least 3-5 years or working experience is preferred.
• Disease Area of Oncology knowledge is highly preferred.

Who we are At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity. Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.