• Job Description

  Req#: 202305-112130

  The Position

  Global Product Strategy (GPS) provides strategic business direction from research through development, commercialization, collaborating with functions and affiliates to shape the future of medicine.

  Customer Experience & Insights (CxI) provides high quality insights on the market environment for relevant disease areas based on publicly available brand and market information, non-publicly available market intelligence, and market research.

  Competitive Intelligence (CI) is a team of strategists with a diverse set of backgrounds within CxI that synthesizes medical, scientific, and commercial information from the external environment to drive decision-making for the Roche/Genentech portfolio. As a Competitive Intelligence Lead (CIL) you will act as a strategic business partner to the I2O teams including Integrated Strategy Leaders (ISL), Lifecycle Leaders (LCLs), Project Team Leaders (PTLs), Disease Area Directors (DADs), Product and Portfolio Planning, Partnering, Disease Area Teams (DATs), Product Development, and other cross functional teams.

  You will provide objective competitive assessments and analyses to enable effective and informed decision-making. This includes insights on multifaceted market changes and competition that impact business decisions and strategy.

  Your responsibilities include

  • Being an expert in leading key competitor monitoring and analysis
    You identify shifting standards of care, emerging development trends, and potential opportunities for future development for our molecules. You bring recognition of emergent agents, MoAs, platforms, and modalities to identify threats and opportunities. You can accurately forecast competitor launch timelines and probabilities, identify critical competitors and data.

  • Lead or influence key internal development and commercialization decisions
    You drive translation of competitive findings into business recommendations that deliver success for the organization. You are a Data expert who assures that impactful, actionable competitor information and Roche product differentiation is identified and taken into account during key decisions. You see opportunities to improve high-level pharma portfolio strategy or Roche organization structure and decision-making by drawing on case examples or other information from the external environment

  • Actively identifying CI information, data collection, and insight communication to varied collaborators
    Based on knowledge of impending strategic decisions, you identify available data sources, collect competitive intelligence, and synthesize information for commercial, medical, and scientific leaders.
    You lead external vendor relationships for collection and structuring of CI data including planning and execution of CI at medical/scientific conferences

  • Collaborating with many other functions
    You ensure cross functional stakeholder alignment within the Therapeutic Area / Business Franchise in support of CI initiatives and deliverables and ensure alignment with broader CxI as well as all partnering functions.

  • Supporting CI team growth by identifying ways to improve the work processes of CI and grow the group’s impact within the organization

  Who You Are

  You hold a Bachelor’s Degree (life sciences or related field is a plus); MBA, MD, or PhD in a life sciences, technical, or analytical subject area is preferred. You have Complex strategic project leadership experience in a matrixed environment and are able to share examples of influencing strategic decisions.

  • Proficiency in written and spoken English is required

  • Prior experience in CI preferred

  • 2 or more years of corporate strategy, financial/investment analysis, venture capital, management consulting, or strategic planning experience in the biopharma industry

  • Experience with projects leading biopharma teams through complex strategic decisions by synthesizing and incorporating competitor information

  • Other deep experience in pharmaceutical product discovery, development, or commercialization

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  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.

  Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

  Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

  We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.

  Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• About the company

  606018 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics.

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