Oncology Squad Lead - Disease Area Strategy

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 Oncology Franchise Lead 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 acts as a strategic connector between ecosystem insights and our portfolio to ensure no patient is left behind.

As a Squad Lead, you will lead the strategic execution of therapeutic areas to maximize impact, driving outstanding results and market leadership. You will actively foster a collaborative, innovative, and agile work environment that truly prioritizes the patient journey.

The Opportunity

Strategy and Value Proposition: You define the vision, positioning, financial ambitions, and short- to medium-term outcomes (STOs and MTOs) for the therapeutic area, guaranteeing local alignment with the corporate strategy ("North Star").

P&L and Resource Management (Enterprise Mindset)

You effectively prioritize the team's outcomes, ensuring the correct allocation of resources (including budget and Opex), and assume full responsibility for the profitability (P&L) of the assigned portfolio.

Cross-functional Leadership and Execution

You inspire and mobilize multidisciplinary teams to achieve ambitious results with agility and commercial excellence, ensuring that each member clearly understands their role and contribution.

Building High-Performance in-Field and Marketing Teams

You actively foster a collaborative, innovative, and safe work environment, leading under the commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity (DIBE).

Ecosystem Development and Co-creation

You build and maintain high-value partnerships with key stakeholders (clinical and non-clinical influencers, public sector), transforming the network into a co-creation ecosystem to generate solutions that comprehensively benefit the patient.

Portfolio Lifecycle Management

You lead the comprehensive development of therapeutic area solutions, orchestrating the relevant strategies for launch, maintenance, or innovation throughout all phases of the brand journey.

Network Synergies and Strategic Communication

You timely exchange learnings, knowledge, and best practices with other squads, countries (LATAM/Global network), and cross-functional teams to create robust corporate synergies. Compliance, Ethics, and SHE (Safety, Health and Environment): You guarantee unrestricted compliance with the Code of Conduct, Compliance policies, corporate ethical behavior, and the company's Quality, Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment regulations.

Who you are

You hold a University degree in Health Sciences, Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, or a related field. (Cédula Profesional required) You have 4+ years of proven experience leading multidisciplinary commercial teams. You demonstrate fluency in the local language and an Advanced level of English to ensure seamless global collaboration. You possess a deep understanding of the patient journey and apply analytical problem-solving to address complex strategic situations and identify root causes.

You embrace an agile, growth-oriented mindset, utilizing data-driven decision-making, digital tools, and adapting quickly to change.

Preferred

You have specialized experience in high-specialty marketing, product launches, Rare Diseases, or Oncology. You hold an MBA or a specialized postgraduate degree in commercial excellence or public health. You have previous experience directly managing a P&L. Relocation benefits are not available for this posting. 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. Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.