Head/Lead - Policy & Advocacy (Delhi)

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The Position

Position – Head/Lead Policy Advocacy

Your Opportunity

This position is based out of Delhi

This role is essential to our vision to deliver better outcomes to more patients faster in India. As a key member of the Access team, you will guide the development of national strategies that improve the patient outcomes in key therapeutic areas such as oncology, rare diseases, neurology, ophthalmology  and hemophilia and will also provide support to our State HSPs as they build local strategies and partnerships for health system and policy strengthening in key States. Vital to success in this role is the ability to collaborate with different internal teams and collaborate for projects that drive health system and policy change. You will report to the Access Director, you will work to catalyze and encourage different teams to implement national and local strategies in line with affiliate priorities.

Key Activities:

•  To develop and  implement a policy engagement framework at national level & state governments/reimbursed ecosystems 

• Provide subject matter expertise to the Roche India affiliate on policy engagement and advocacy 

• Support the development of National Policy Advocacy strategies in oncology, rare diseases, ophthalmology and hemophilia 

• Build partnerships with key policy, public health and academic institutions for collaborations supporting national and state strategies 

• Provide mentorship on development and implementation of State health system and policy strategies – supporting external meetings as vital Proficiencies and strengths

• Deep understanding of policy and advocacy strategy and proven experience in tactical implementation and impact

• Comprehensive understanding of global and India policy trends and strengths in policy analysis to advise business strategy

• Strong people leadership skills and experience as a coach and mentor ∙ Strategic agility- ability to drive projects in an evolving business and policy environment to meet short as well as long term goals

• Catalyze implementation of co-pay/fund pooling/fund stacking model at national/ state level. 

• Drive policy change towards Roche prioritized disease areas across awareness & diagnosis, standard/ distributed treatment, access to innovative therapies/preventive care/disease modifying care and increased funding towards the disease in

• Facilitating creation of sustainable funding mechanism to access Roche therapies through policy advocacy efforts (current + new products)

• Work with cross functional teams to support ideation and implementation of strategies in line with business priorities 

Who You Are

• Having excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills 

• Strong interpersonal and network building abilities are essential for internal and external relationship management

• Design thinking and workshop facilitation to support agile strategy development 

• Post-graduate qualifications in relevant areas of policy, advocacy, communications or public health

• Proven experience of 8-10 years healthcare sector  in private or public sector 

• Experience of working in leadership roles in large healthcare (Pharma) organizations with people management and influencing in networked organizations is desirable

• Understanding and experience of India healthcare policy environment and pharmaceutical policy

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.