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

The Country Medical Director (CMD) serves as the local delegate of authority for Roche’s Pharma Chief Medical Officer and is a mandatory core member of the Roche Pharma Switzerland affiliate Leadership Team. The role is responsible for driving scientific, medical, and clinical excellence by providing strategic leadership and fostering high-level engagement with the scientific community and healthcare ecosystem stakeholders. As a "License to Operate" (LTO) Champion, the CMD integrates critical functions such as clinical operations, regulatory, quality, and safety to ensure medical compliance, superior patient outcomes, and the accelerated adoption of transformative medicines.

Main Responsibilities

• Strategic Enterprise Leadership: Share responsibility for the affiliate’s enterprise strategy and long-term business objectives, ensuring competitive medical strategies are built on robust evidence generation and scientific data positioning.
• External Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary point of contact for key external stakeholders, including policymakers, scientific partners, and patient advocacy groups, to drive healthcare system changes.
• Medical Compliance Oversight: Serve as the local delegate of authority for the Pharma CMO, ensuring all activities adhere to medical compliance, quality standards, and "License to Operate" (LTO) obligations.
• Functional Integration: Act as the local integrator for LTO functions, including clinical operations, regulatory, quality, safety, and biometrics, to ensure they work coherently at the local and regional levels.
• Team Leadership and Development: Build and lead scientifically sound medical teams, fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring continuous professional development and cross-functional effectiveness.
• Clinical and Scientific Rigor: Establish and maintain the highest levels of scientific rigor across therapeutic areas and diseases, ensuring medical input informs both local and global asset strategies.
• Material and Grant Approval: Provide accountability for the approval process of promotional and non-promotional materials, as well as the strategic provision of medical grants, sponsorships, and donations.
• Risk Management: Lead appropriate risk assessments and issue management within the medical domain via the Affiliate Medical Compliance Oversight process or specialized cross-functional teams.

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Main Requirements

• Educational Qualifications: A Medical Degree (MD) is required and other advanced degrees (e.g., PharmD, PhD) are an advantage.
• Professional Experience: Profound Medical Affairs experience (minimum >5 years) including a solid understanding of drug development, commercialization, and healthcare compliance (GCP, GVP).
• Strategic and Business Acumen: Demonstrated business and financial acumen, with the ability to operate successfully in a complex matrix environment with shared accountabilities.
• Leadership and Influencing at senior level: Strong evidence of leading with a vision using a coaching leadership approach. Has led a team of medical experts in the past and influenced medical and commercial decisions at senior level in an organisation.
• Healthcare Ecosystem Knowledge: Deep understanding of the local healthcare system, including regulatory and payer environments, with board certification in priority therapeutic areas being a distinct advantage.
• Languages fluency in English and German is a must, French would be an advantage

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.