Medical Affairs Partner (Ophthalmology)
About this opportunity
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
As a Medical Affairs Partner, you will act as a trusted, externally focused, and scientifically grounded collaborator within our customer engagement ecosystem. Based in the affiliate team, you will drive the local medical strategy, build deep peer-to-peer connections with scientific communities, and ensure our diagnostic and therapeutic innovations reach their full potential to transform patient lives.
In this role, you will:
Drive Scientific & Medical Strategy: Lead the medical component of the integrated therapeutic strategy, translating complex clinical data into a clear, differentiated value story across key disease areas.
Cultivate Trusted Partnerships: Proactively engage with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), external scientific experts, and healthcare stakeholders to foster meaningful, science-driven collaborations.
Advance Evidence Generation: Develop and implement local integrated evidence plans, identifying data gaps and supporting Real-World Evidence (RWE) studies, non-interventional studies, and investigator-initiated research.
Accelerate Patient Market Access: Contribute scientific expertise to local Health Technology Assessment (HTA) submissions, articulating the real-world value of our innovations to secure faster patient access.
Lead Digital & Ecosystem Innovation: Systematically gather external clinical insights, utilizing emerging digital tools and AI insights responsibly to anticipate and optimize local medical practice adoption.
Ensure Absolute Excellence & Compliance: Oversee medical information requests and collaborate with Regulatory and Clinical Operations teams, maintaining strict adherence to industry regulations, ethical standards, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Who You Are
You are an entrepreneurial, solution-oriented professional who thrives in cross-functional team environments. You balance deep scientific expertise with the strategic acumen required to navigate ambiguity and communicate complex insights with clarity and impact.
Your Qualifications:
Educational Excellence: You hold an advanced degree in Medical, Pharmaceutical, or Natural Sciences (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent).
Professional Experience: You bring proven experience in Medical Affairs or equivalent clinical/scientific expertise within relevant therapeutic areas preferably in Retinal Diseases & Ophthalmology
Strategic Communication: You possess exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to confidently lead peer-to-peer scientific dialogue at an executive level in English.
Digital Literacy: You maintain a growth mindset toward digital tools, demonstrating basic AI literacy and the ability to ensure robust human-in-the-loop oversight of digital content.
Compliance & Collaborative Mindset: You demonstrate strong personal accountability, a collaborative approach to cross-functional "squad" environments, and an unwavering commitment to ethical compliance.
Together, we’ll advance along the whole patient journey with the aspiration to prevent, stop and cure diseases.
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.
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How this role compares
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We currently track 924 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 130 biopharma companies.
Salary context
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