Head of Healthcare Transformation & Access

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The Position

Role Purpose

• The Head of Healthcare Transformation serves as a cornerstone in advancing Roche Diagnostics' commitment to enhancing patient care. By synthesizing clinical evidence, access frameworks, and governmental advocacy with business development, this leader ensures that breakthrough diagnostics gain market entry, clinical recognition, and financial sustainability within Taiwan. This executive role fundamentally evolves the local medical landscape while establishing Roche as a premier partner in the health ecosystem.

• A primary focus involves the evaluation and refinement of healthcare pathways and public policy to foster robust internal and external partnerships, thereby modernizing the local environment to drive substantive commercial growth. Achieving systemic change necessitates the seamless integration of policy shaping, medical insights and reimbursement expertise.  Furthermore, you will identify and cultivate emerging business opportunities that respond to shifting clinical trends, overseeing the launch of programs that improve healthcare delivery and ensure the enduring availability of innovative diagnostic tools.

• Possessing a profound sense of purpose, the incumbent will mobilize teams to achieve superior outcomes under the "Pioneering Diagnostics and Shaping Effective Healthcare in Taiwan" vision, directly contributing to the execution of the RDTW 1000 days strategic roadmap.

• In this capacity, you will demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit and system-wide perspective, converting visionary concepts into disciplined, high-impact strategies that secure organizational success across both immediate and future horizons.

• As a member of the RD Taiwan Leadership Team, you will role model VACC behaviors and uphold the LT Purpose Statement. Close collaboration with peers across the Leadership Team is essential to realize the company's broader objectives. This leadership approach centers on cultivating high-performing, customer-centric teams within an agile and continuously evolving organizational culture.

• Ultimately, you must exhibit the determination and resilience required to transform Taiwan's healthcare landscape, embodying the core Roche mission: "Doing what patients need next."

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute an integrated medical, market access & policy strategy aligned with global/regional guidelines and local business objectives.

• Medical Affairs Strategy: Lead the generation and dissemination of scientific evidence, foster strategic relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and medical societies, and ensure scientific accuracy in all activities.

• Market Access & Reimbursement: Drive successful NHI (National Health Insurance) listing and optimal pricing strategies for key diagnostic products, utilizing health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).

• Public Policy & Government Affairs: Proactively monitor the healthcare policy landscape. Engage collaboratively with government authorities (e.g., MOHW, NHIA), industry associations, and patient advocacy groups to shape favorable policies for diagnostic innovations.

• Business Development: Identify, develop, and manage strategic emerging business opportunities and partnerships that promote growth and innovation and ensure the delivery of scalable and impactful healthcare solutions.

• Team Leadership & VACC Culture: Lead, coach, and inspire a cross-functional Medical, Market Access, Policy and Business Development team to unlock the individual and team’s full potential.  Empower the organization by fostering Roche's VACC (Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst) leadership culture.  Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring effective teamwork across departments to achieve organizational goals.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a core member of the local management team, partnering closely with but not limited to Commercial, Marketing, and Regulatory teams to ensure business synergy and patient-centric outcomes.  Proactively engage with global and regional communities and network to influence and leverage for impact.

Compliance & Additional Tasks:

• Conduct all business activities in full compliance with Roche Secure, Roche Behavior in Business, Roche Competition Law Interactive Dialogues, and Roche Safety, Security Health, and Environmental Protection policies.

• Perform other tasks as assigned by the line manager.

Requirements:

教育背景 Education :

• Minimum: University degree in a relevant discipline required. A postgraduate degree (e.g., MSc or higher) in a relevant area would be desirable.

工作經驗 Experience :

• 10+ years of experience operating in areas relevant to healthcare strategy, business development or ecosystem development.  Experience is digital solutions and digital healthcare is preferred.

• Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, develop and execute strategies, and track and measure results.

• Proven experience leading teams to shape the policy and market.

• Highly developed leadership and people influencing skills; success in establishing a high-performing environment and propel innovative and collaborative culture.

• Experience in a diverse and inclusive environment.

主要職能 Competency :

• Demonstrate VACC leadership behaviors which are inclusive and values a diverse workforce and mutli-disciplinary teams.

• Live and role model Roche Operating Principles. 

• Creative leadership to grow the individual(s) and team(s).

• Enterprise mindset and system thinking

• Be able to represent the company externally and build meaningful external relationships with relevant stakeholders in support of long term sustainability. 

• Possess high proficiency and confidence in English communication

Others (i.e. Travel Requirement):

• 10~20% of time may involve business travel domestically and internationally 

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.