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

Are you passionate about strengthening healthcare partnerships to accelerate clinical innovation? As the Clinical Research Engagement Lead (CREL), you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic site engagement, optimizing clinical trial operations, and delivering an exceptional, streamlined experience for clinical trial sites.
In this role, you will champion a "One Roche" approach, acting as the primary point of contact for strategic sites and bringing together internal medical and operational teams to anticipate and support site needs. By establishing a collaborative local community and managing key relationships with Contract Research Organizations (CROs), you will ensure the successful, high-quality delivery of our portfolio from early to late-stage clinical development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive Strategic Site Engagement: Develop and execute tailored country-level site engagement strategies across disease areas, fostering trust, operational excellence, and accelerated trial progression.

• Optimize Early Landscaping & Feasibility: Engage strategically with investigators during early trial setup, landscaping, and protocol review phases to identify the most suitable sites and optimize recruitment speed.

• Lead Relationship Management & Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact for strategic clinical sites, building deep connections with investigators, pharmacists, and clinic administrations to align cross-study priorities and capture feedback trends.

• Coordinate Internal Communities: Convene and lead a local site engagement community (integrating Local Medical Affairs, field medical teams, and clinical operations) to streamline communications and enhance the site experience.

• Provide Global & Local Study Oversight: Oversee the planning, risk mitigation, and compliance of assigned clinical studies, tracking monitoring performance, risk-based monitoring plans, and trial master file completeness.

• Manage Partner Relationships: Collaborate closely with CRO partners throughout the clinical trial lifecycle to ensure unified delivery goals, high site satisfaction, and swift resolution of operational challenges.

• Ensure Inspection Readiness: Lead local quality reviews, internal audits, and regulatory inspections for allocated studies, ensuring absolute compliance with global quality standards and regulatory guidelines.

Who You Are
You are a strategic, relationship-driven clinical operations professional who excels in dynamic environments, leads cross-functional alignment through ambiguity, and holds a strong commitment to customer-centric delivery.
Qualifications & Skills:

• Education: Degree (MD, PhD, Master’s, or Bachelor’s) in life sciences or an equivalent discipline.

• Experience: Significant experience in the pharmaceutical or clinical research industry, with essential expertise in end-to-end product development and clinical trial processes.

• Relationship Management: A proven track record of managing site relationships, overseeing complex clinical trials, and effectively collaborating with CROs.

• Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities, proactively identify operational challenges, and develop effective, data-backed compliance and mitigation strategies.

• Communication & Influencing: Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with the ability to bridge communication gaps between global teams and local external stakeholders.

• Languages: Mandatory fluency in written and spoken English, as well as the local language(s) of the host country.

• Mobility: Willingness and flexibility to travel to trial sites on an ongoing basis to establish and maintain strong relationships (frequent domestic and occasional international travel required).

Let’s thrive together in a culture built on trust, collaboration, respect, and high performance. Apply today!

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.