Squad Lead

Position Overview

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.

Mission and Responsibilities

• Squad Lead: Lead Roche's strategy across a defined disease area(s) and support relevant teams that implement Roche's solutions in Ireland. Translate global strategies into local strategies and activities.
• Act as a peer partner to Customer Engagement Lead(s), inspire cross functional collaboration, drive outcomes based planning, and ensure every initiative delivers value for patients.
• Report to the Head of Commercial and develop and implement strategy and outcomes based plans in support of overall business goals.
• Enable outcomes based planning with a timely cadence of planning meetings and impact retrospectives, fostering a creative feedback culture.
• Lead cross functional and ecosystem collaboration, prioritise engagement and identity, and build healthy, high performing team dynamics.
• Partner with external stakeholders, remove roadblocks, co create solutions, mobilise the network quickly, and maintain relations with global and regional functions and affiliates.
• Collaborate with commercial roles to ensure accurate brand forecasts and strong communication across functions.
• Prioritise resources through an enterprise mindset, taking into account affiliate strategy and portfolio priorities.
• Provide coaching and mentorship in patient journeys, commercial capabilities, and ecosystem engagement, supporting development of others across cross functional teams.
• Impact the development of skills and capabilities across the organisation to realise collective ambition.

Office and Engagement

This role is primarily office based, with ad hoc external engagement expected.

Who you are

You are a systems thinker with a strategic mindset and a proven ability to lead cross functional teams using VACC principles. You have an excellent understanding of the healthcare ecosystem and can identify opportunities beyond the product to generate customer value based insights. You communicate with impact and influence, and you build trust and inspire collaboration among diverse stakeholders, internally and externally.

In addition, you bring the following skills & experience:

• Prior experience in strategy, sales, marketing, business development, market access, or customer ecosystem engagement.
• Pharmaceutical experience is preferred.
• Deep understanding of business drivers, the local market and competitive landscape is a plus.
• Proven experience coaching and mentoring others.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and inspire teamwork and collaboration.
• Experience leading and/or working in an agile environment.
• Launch and lifecycle excellence capability, focusing on maximising value across new and established patient journeys.
• Strong networking capability, both internal and external.
• University degree (scientific, economic or business).
• Advanced degree in Life Science and/or MBA is a plus.

Compliance

You take personal responsibility for maintaining high ethical standards and operating in compliance with local and global Roche policies, including the Roche Group Code of Conduct, Quality Management System and the IPHA Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it's urgent to deliver medical solutions right now - even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients' lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.