Medical Affairs Partner

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 PositionYou will be a key member of the Medical Affairs Team and report to the Country Medical Director North Macedonia & Kosovo. As a Medical Affairs Partner (MAP) you are expected to establish effective relations and work closely with the Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in the field across Macedonia. Expected travel in the field: 50% Key Areas of Accountabilities Provide Medical Expertise: Responsible for proactively contributing strong scientific, medical, and therapeutic areas expertise within the relevant diseases informing differentiation of our pipeline and portfolio. Acting as a medical expert for the pipeline and portfolio throughout the product life cycle. Shape Strategy: Lead the medical part of the integrated strategy, shape a scientifically sound and differentiated value story locally and communicate Roche’s contributions across key disease areas, reflecting an end-to-end business perspective that pulls through the strategy with impact. Proactive Targeted Medical Engagement: As a medical function our ambition is to spend the majority of our time proactively engaging with external customers as partners in the integrated customer engagement strategy. The MAP serves as the scientific and medical expert, proactively engaging TAEs, and other key stakeholders in full strategic and operational alignment with other in-field roles (ie. Patient Journey Partners, HC System Partners). In the pre-launch phase, it is the priority to drive proactive E2E strategies that deliver superior experience, anticipate the future and shape medical practice accordingly. In the post-launch phase, the engagement continues to ensure that the right patients are treated at the right time and the engagement scope expands on unserved patient populations. In-field engagement serves as a critical component of this overarching strategy for targeted scientific engagement. It is understood that based on business needs the Medical Affairs Partner can serve as the primary point of contact for certain customers with the ambition to drive required healthcare changes and where feasible earlier and broader adoption of our transformative portfolio. Medical Affairs Partnership & Education: Establish and maintain effective peer-to-peer relationships with external stakeholders and identify/develop science-driven collaborations with TAEs. Provide current, high-quality Medical Education and differentiating scientific information to external customers, support the scientific training of internal teams and ensure continuous education on medical knowledge for other relevant roles. Conduct high-quality, non-promotional Scientific Exchanges to disseminate relevant data, foster physician confidence and clinical endorsement based on differentiating evidence and experience. Insight Generation: Based on aligned goals in the Squad, the MAP should systematically collect, analyze, and translate external scientific and clinical practice insights (including patient perspectives) into strategic actionable and differentiating recommendations for the Squad. Insights are secured in peer-to-peer discussions and via targeted medical activities. One of the medical activities involves the execution of medical/scientific advisory boards as a source of insights and strategic counsel. Adherence to Standards: Ensure all medical activities, including customer engagements, research projects, and material co-creation, are executed in line with company policies, procedures, and the highest compliance standards. This includes strict adherence to corporate policies, ethical behavior, local regulatory requirements as well as Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (GVP). Integrated Evidence Planning: Develop the local integrated evidence plan (IEP), including a comprehensive local evidence gap analysis of required value narratives for the diverse set of healthcare system stakeholders, patients and caregivers. Maximizing HTA Value: provide support to Market Access to articulate the differentiating value story of our innovations in the local context to secure patient access. Shaping Medical Practice: a core focus of the role is the systematic collection of insights, as well as the identification and addressing of medical and customer needs. These insights will serve to inform and guide the development or localization of the Disease Areas (DA) company’s strategy. This includes contextualizing AI information with internal and external stakeholders as new technologies will disrupt the role of medical professionals. Fast access to innovative medicines: Enable broader impact on underserved patients by integrating medical perspectives into solutions that support the entire patient journey. Pipeline Product Strategic Contribution / Shaping: Providing insight and recommended actions linking to the highest value propositions (VP’s) for the affiliate pipeline products and/or new indications. Act as “custodian” of our and competitor data and evidence (in partnership with relevant internal stakeholders) to ensure credible communication of the value of Roche propositions Regulatory Support: Contribute scientific and medical expertise to local Health Authority submissions and interactions to obtain, maintain, and develop product licenses, in close alignment with the local Regulatory Affairs team. Together with the regulatory function, hold accountability for ensuring that all clinical content provided during authority exchanges (including prescribing and patient information) is accurate, compliant, and necessary. Support high-quality submissions to facilitate potentially faster approvals and establish a solid, compliant foundation for future promotional activities. Who You Are Education: Completed Medical, Dentistry or Pharmaceutical degree. Proven Experience: 3+ years prior experience in Medical Affairs, Clinical Research, or equivalent scientific/clinical expertise in a relevant Disease Area. Proficiency in English and Macedonian (both written and spoken). Customer Focus: Prioritizes the needs of patients and customers (HCPs/TAEs), ensuring all actions drive value and satisfaction. Strategic Acumen: Ability to think strategically, act with autonomy, and thrive in complex, cross-functional team environments. Digital: Basic level of AI literacy and learner mindset that proactively integrates digital tools in day-to-day work. Collaborative Networker: Collaborates effectively showing leadership, self-motivation and accountability as part of a multi-skilled team (squad) and proactively shares expertise across the organization and across countries to remove silos. Growth Mindset & Curiosity: Demonstrates enthusiasm for continuous learning, self-awareness and showing leadership when building a feedback culture. The Medical Affairs Partner should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, collaborating and showing a strong solution finding mindset. Assertive Communication: Excellent ability to articulate complex medical and scientific context, inform medical guidelines by contextualizing our data, build trust, and have conversations in a direct and respectful manner with key stakeholders externally and internally on peer-to-peer level. Entrepreneurial mindset: Takes calculated risks, challenges the status quo, and proposes pragmatic, value adding solutions. The Medical Affairs Partner can maintain a holistic view of patient, business, and ecosystem needs and does not compromise Roche’s license to operate. Value creation: Focusing efforts on the added v