Disease Area Squad Lead

Job Description

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 Position title: Disease Area Squad Lead (Breast / Ophthalmology / Neuro (MS & SMA) / Lung (+ HCC) / Hematology (Malignant Haem + Hemophilia) Job Location: Location Agnostic A healthier future. It s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That s what makes us Roche. Role Summary: New Leadership role driving Disease Area strategy (including our priority brands) across India, fostering impact across clusters with an enterprise and business focus, functionally reporting into the India Commercialisation Excellence Head. Serves as a Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach (VACC) for the cross-cluster collaboration, ensuring the prioritisation, direction and delivery of common business outcomes to achieve market leadership in India, line with the global Disease Area ambition. Accountable for the affiliate-wide execution of disease and priority brands commercialization strategy, collaborating with key stakeholders including Cluster heads and cluster teams, IES, Enabling Leaders, GM, CEETRIS Disease Commercialisation Leader and other affiliate teams. Rapidly adopt the strategy from the network and implementation of deliverables for India. Actively seek where synergies or solutions exist in the network, either scale existing solutions or collaborate with affiliates seeking common solutions to avoid duplication of work. Your Opportunity Setting the DA vision across the lifecycle, high ambitions, and outcomes (incl for priority brands) by harnessing insights from PPOCs and other key stakeholders across the affiliate. Holding overall accountability for delivering market leadership and the DA performance, whilst working in the context of shared responsibility with the cluster heads, cluster teams and IES. Lead the Disease Area Squad of the affiliate to set aspirational ambition and demonstrate execution excellence in realisation of Disease Area MTOs, including identifying affiliate level work packages, experiments that need to be run and subsequent pull through and scaling of high impact solutions. Represent the affiliate within the CEETRIS disease area network to identify synergies within the area, scale ideas from other affiliates/GPS, Implement global DA solutions in the affiliate & avoid duplication of work (collaborates closely with Area DCL to implement 80% of the solutions from the network and address remaining needs through partnership with cluster teams). Connect the affiliate to the network, contributing own expertise and mobilizing affiliate experts for network projects. + Mobilize the network swiftly to meet urgent needs, and effectively allocate resources by leveraging expertise across the network to ensure the greatest impact. Provide insights to the network on key hurdles faced and solutions developed in the affiliate. Prioritize key market needs, communicate these to the DCLs/PT Top 20 Forum, and gather and share insights from the Area through DCLs. Ensures right resource prioritization, with an enterprise mindset, taking into account the affiliate strategy and portfolio priorities. Within this context, effectively prioritize DA outcomes and ensure resource requirements are met to deliver on outcomes Manage DA Squads like by embracing the role of recruiter, coach, retainer of talent & performance, sharing the responsibility with leaders in other disciplines. In collaboration with the PPOCs, ensure that key stakeholders are well-supported and view us as their preferred partner. Mobilize the network with speed when necessary to meet the urgent needs of these key stakeholders. Ensure compliance with SOPs, Pharma Code of Conduct, iFPMA, Symphony (and of equivalence) and are of high ethical standards. Who you are Commercial leader with proven success in matrix pharma/biotech roles, skilled at influencing cross-functionally and maintaining an enterprise view. MBA (or equivalent), MBBS/MD, Post Graduate or PhD with minimum experience of 10+ years in pharma/biotech. DA expertise is highly desirable. Strong VACC leader with the ability to inspire and mobilise the affiliate towards a vision of high ambition and winning together. Ability to coach & execute, skilled in coaching DA Squad and driving impact, demonstrate execution-oriented mindset with a focus on strategy realization and experienced in commercialization with an integrated perspective across marketing, medical, and access functions. Superior strategic partnership & communication skills , bring a strong voice into the room and a leadership ability to challenge and act as a thought partner with CHs, comfortable with P&L management and strategic decision-making with excellent communication skills and ability to handle resource allocation and trade-offs. Embody an entrepreneurial growth mindset to reach beyond boundaries, exhibits potential for more senior leadership roles and is mobile for future career progression, committed to scaling and championing strategic initiatives and open to making trade-offs between DA and geographical knowledge to optimize the profile. Internal Stakeholders: Cluster Brand/ Disease Teams, Cluster Heads, General Manager, Other India Enabling Squad (IES), Area Disease Commercialisation Lead, cross-Affiliate DA Squad Leads, Finance, P&C, Access CoE, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, Strategy & Portfolio Management, Compliance Team, Legal, Global and CEETRIS Area teams External Stakeholders: HCPs, business partners, clinical sites (as applicable), service providers, large distributors, regulatory agencies, corporate and public accounts, patient advocacy groups, industry bodies and government policymakers Functional Competencies: P&L Management, Knowledge of pharma & healthcare landscape, People management, Multiple therapy area knowledge, Change management, Financial acumen Behavioral Competencies: Exhibition of Roche Leadership Commitments and Roche Core Values (incl high integrity), Exhibition of VACC Leadership (Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst), incl. Setting clear direction and enabling action, Inspiring and Influencing Strong Collaboration and Networking skills Strong communication skills You are not afraid to challenge, you foster transparency, you always think triple win and patient centricity in decision making, Build High Performing Teams that deliver business outcomes by promoting a collaborative, innovative & creative environment. 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. "