Real World Evidence Lead

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The Position

At Roche, our primary mission is to improve the lives of people everywhere by setting new standards in healthcare. As a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, we are consistently driven to address some of the world's most challenging health problems. Our commitment to innovation, integrity, and sustainable growth propels us to work collaboratively, embracing diversity and inclusion to unlock a future where personalized healthcare becomes the new norm.

The Opportunity:

• Develop and execute the local RWD strategy, collaborating with internal stakeholders such as PHC teams, HSPs, PJPs, Integrated Strategy Leads, Squad Leads, Market Access Functions, Medical Functions, and Portfolio Leads
• Provide strategic guidance and scientific leadership to teams, fostering strategic partnerships and long-term vision execution
• Enhance the acceptance of RWE in HTA and regulatory processes by working with relevant stakeholders
• Shape the regulatory environment towards patient and data-centric healthcare by building effective relationships with regulatory authorities
• Support real world data evaluation and evidence generation for regulatory purposes (e.g., approvals, label extensions, post-marketing requirements)
• Collaborate internally and externally to accelerate the local acceptance of RWD in healthcare decision-making for improved patient outcomes
• Advise teams on best practices, quality standards, and innovative solutions
• Ensure high data quality, consistency, security, and availability throughout the data lifecycle
• Guarantee scientific and medical compliance with data governance standards and regulations
• Manage the RWD/E generation portfolio to address local evidence gaps, aligning with global strategy
• Establish RWD as a foundation for data-driven healthcare decision-making and health systems advancement
• Develop a targeted and actionable RWE publication plan
• Identify data source opportunities and lead the application of advanced analytics methodologies for novel insights
• Strive for scalable technological solutions and adopt emergent data collection, management, visualization, and provision tools
  
  

Who you are:

• Awareness of changing analytics and technology trends within and outside the industry and ability to drive the organization to the implementation of those innovative solutions
• In-depth understanding of medical and strategic aspects of all drug development stages; medical strategies including integrated evidence generation (from early phases to postmarketing), digital health and personalized healthcare, and their dependencies
• Track record of adherence to regulatory requirements (GVP/GPP), data privacy, healthcare and medical compliance
• In depth knowledge of national health system RWD bodies, data sets, sources and use cases/ applications, identification of evidence gaps
• Expertise in real world data collection methodologies such technical expertise in electronic health records
• Experience working with different modalities of real world data i.e. genomic data, image data, clinical data (EHR, cohort, survey, etc
• Experience with running RWE studies, selecting appropriate analysis and data visualization
• Good understanding of the strengths and limitations of clinical studies (interventional, observational research such as SDU RWE and PDC NIS, etc)
• Minimum a Bachelor's degree or higher in a health or basic science discipline
• Training in a quantitative field (data science, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioinformatics)
• Desired a Master's and/or doctorate in medical sciences, data science, biostatistics or epidemiology
  
  

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.