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

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.

This role is in our Market Access group within the UK and leads the Health Economics team to ensure we can gain reimbursement for our medicines.

As the HERO Chapter Lead, you are a visionary leader dedicated to ensuring UK patients have the best access to medicines in Europe. You will challenge and shape the UK reimbursement system, ensuring our value is demonstrated through innovative, high-standard health economics. You will demonstrate exceptional leadership and strategic thinking - be passionate about gaining access for all patients, but also plays a significant role in the UK and Globally to ensure healthcare systems are fit for purpose.

Your Impact

• You act as a Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach to inspire chapter members and foster a culture of growth and accountability.

• Collaborative Excellence: You remove silos and duplication across the organization to support our common "North Star".

• Strategic Leadership: You sign off on reimbursement dossiers and lead strategies that engage key stakeholders and pan-industry relationships.

• System Transformation: You play a significant role both in the UK and globally to ensure healthcare systems are fit for purpose.

• Resource Advocacy: You lead strategic planning to ensure your chapter is fully resourced and capable of meeting both current and future demands.

Who you are

• You have a strong track record in HE&OR is essential, as well as significant knowledge of the UK health system, and the ability to collaborate both locally and globally

• You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Health Economics

• Inspiring Coach who provides leadership of the Chapter Members within their Chapter, with a Creative Leadership mindset and the VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach) roles, and more broadly as required, to ensure individuals and teams are developing and growing in line with their passion and the needs of the Organisation

• Fostering collaboration and expertise-sharing across the organisation to remove silos and duplication, ensure efficient use of similar skill-sets, and to ultimately support common pursuit of the North Star

• Accountable for fostering a culture where every individual is able to bring their whole self & passion to work.

• Acting as a guardian for high standards of compliance, ethics and safety; putting patients at the centre of all actions by consistent business behaviour that complies with applicable laws, industry codes and Roche’s Code of Conduct.

• Lead strategic resource planning to ensure the chapter is fully resourced to meet demands of the organisation, and any resource constraints are constructively flagged, with a collaborative approach to find solutions

• Develop the long term strategy to ensure Chapter capabilities are fit for purpose now and in the future to meet internal and external demands

• Where applicable, ensuring "Foundational work" is completed, with continual review of HOW it's done to drive efficiency and minimise resource required to do it (without compromising on necessary standards)

• Ensuring ruthless prioritisation to avoid Chapter "work-creep" outside of Foundational work, Squad-prioritised work and Personal Development.

• Involvement in Squads and Squad work (Affiliate or others) and Global activities, as required

This role is based onsite at our Welwyn, United Kingdom office. Our team follows a hybrid work structure, requiring a fixed number of onsite days per week.

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.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.