Head of Market Access in Welwyn

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Are you passionate about ensuring patients can access the best medicines, building partnerships, and driving meaningful change in healthcare? Come and lead our Policy Value and Access team at Roche UK. We are dedicated to ensuring UK patients have the best access to medicines in Europe.

At Roche UK, we focus our energy and investment on developing tests and treatments that change lives. Together with others, we’re solving healthcare’s greatest challenges. We have a continual focus on the individuals who are affected by the conditions that Roche focuses on. Globally, more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to advancing science and ensuring everyone has access to healthcare. 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 and foster creativity to deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions.

As the Policy Value and Access Chapter Lead, you will be an inspiring and strategic leader for our experienced team. Your primary goal is to foster a culture of high performance, empowerment, and accountability. You will lead the team in the articulation and integration of the Access relevant elements needed for the successful commercialisation of our innovative portfolio and pipeline. This is a crucial role where you will ensure the team delivers high‑quality access strategies at the disease area and asset level, and ensures the excellent execution of these strategies to enable optimal patient access.

Key responsibilities include:

• Stakeholder Engagement: Leading engagement and negotiation with NHS stakeholders at both national and regional levels to enable UK patient access to Roche medicines.
• Strategic Collaboration: Working cross‑functionally with both UK and global colleagues to challenge and shape the UK reimbursement system.
• Value Demonstration: Ensuring that the value of the Roche portfolio is recognised by the system.
• Innovative Problem‑Solving: Using creative and innovative approaches to solve problems faced by both Roche and the NHS, and working to co‑create solutions to healthcare problems.
• Team Leadership: Acting as an inspiring coach, responsible for the coaching, development, and engagement of your Chapter Members.
• Culture Building: Fostering collaboration and expertise‑sharing to remove silos and creating a culture where every individual can bring their whole self and passion to work.
• Capability Strategy: Leading strategic resource planning and developing the long‑term strategy to ensure Chapter capabilities are fit for purpose now and in the future.
• Compliance: Acting as a guardian for high standards of compliance, ethics, and safety, putting patients at the centre of all actions.

Who You Are

You are an inspiring leader who demonstrates exceptional strategic thinking. To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A proven track record.
• An in‑depth, broad, and deep knowledge of how the NHS is structured, funded, and operates.
• A crucial ability to build key relationships and use those to the benefit of patients.
• The ability to leverage networks and relationships to build strategic partnerships and collaborations.
• Experience in translating insights from the ecosystem into innovative strategies.
• A track record of challenging the status quo based on customer insights to drive breakthrough initiatives.
• Exceptional expertise in recognising and understanding complex problems and identifying their underlying causes.
• The ability to create a compelling vision that inspires others to create organisational change.

Please note that internally, this role is referred to as the Policy Value and Access Chapter Lead.

Why Join Us?

This is your opportunity to lead the Policy Value and Access team to help improve the lives of UK patients by shaping policies and strategies that truly matter. Working in this field offers you the chance to have a profound impact, working alongside passionate advocates who share your commitment to creating meaningful change in healthcare.

Apply Today and Help Shape the Future!

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