Market Access Specialist

Roche; Delhi; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche in India seeks a Market Access Specialist to drive strategic development of high-quality, evidence-based programs delivering transformational health impact for underserved populations. You will collaborate with State Access Partners and support health system strengthening through innovative program design.

The role requires managing external relationships with governments and health bodies, and leading monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of projects to advance access and policy goals.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree is required.
• Experience in access/strategy in healthcare or development sector is required.
• English fluency is required for written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Coach and support State Access Partners, ideating and implementing strategies in line with business priorities.
• Manage prioritized health systems engagement on prevention, early detection, screening, quality of life and access to care initiatives.
• Represent Roche with key external stakeholders including state governments and national/global health organizations.
• Lead innovative program design for health system transformations, including implementation, follow-up, evaluation and reporting.
• Develop monitoring and evaluation plans, tools, training materials, reports and summary forms for projects.

Skills

English language fluency

Public health program management

Stakeholder engagement

Proposal development

Monitoring and evaluation

Public-private partnerships

Education

MD / MBA / MHA / MPH or equivalent

Relevant postgraduate degree

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

Market Access Specialist

Location: New Delhi

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.

Market Access Specialist, as a part of the Access team, is central to our vision to transform healthcare for patients and their families in India. Reporting the Director, Access & Policy, the incumbent will be responsible for ensuring strategic development of high quality, evidence based, innovative programs that deliver transformational and lasting health impact for the underserved population segments in India across therapeutic areas. You will also provide support to our State Access Partners as they build local strategies and partnerships for health system and policy strengthening in key States.

A key aspect of the role is to ensure working in collaboration with other members of the team/affiliate and to support and promote progressive health system strategy and its implementation. The candidate will also lead the development of external relationships and contribute to the submission of high quality reports/proposals to various state governments and public health bodies for health system transformation through innovative, actionable and sustainable programs.

The Opportunity

• Coach and catalyst for State Access Partners, supporting ideation and implementation of strategies in line with business priorities
• Manages prioritized health systems engagement on prevention, early detection, screening, quality of life and access to care initiatives, and population health-related efforts to achieve cancer control priorities, ophthalmology, rare diseases and neurology
• High-level representational role with the key external stakeholders including states governments and national/global public health organizations
• Lead innovative program design for health systems transformations and be responsible for implementation, follow-up, evaluation, quality strengthening and reporting of projects
• Serve as a subject matter expert for both internal and external stakeholders on healthcare program monitoring and evaluation methods (qualitative and quantitative), including experience developing monitoring and evaluation plans, tools, training materials, reports and summary forms

Who You Are

• Deep understanding of Indian healthcare system. Demonstrated strategic thinking capabilities
• Understanding of health system concepts in general including health system capacity development, task shifting
• Demonstrated experience in co-creating and maintaining public-private partnerships
• Demonstrated experience working in low resource settings to implement public health programs
• Demonstrated success in program conceptualization and design, proposal development, fundraising, program delivery, and monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrated understanding of global health trends and expertise in working with governments, non-profit organizations, and the private sector to achieve public health impact
• Ability to creatively solve challenging problems in the application of research and evaluation methods without extensive structural or operational support
• Ability to adapt to fast-paced and changing environments, both internally and externally
• Willingness to travel and spend significant time in the field
• English language fluency, both written and verbal required
• Experience in managing large scale complex and multi-thematic healthcare programs

Qualification & Experience

• Relevant postgraduate degree required
• MD / MBA/ MHA / MPH or equivalent,
• Minimum experience of 8-10+ year
• 5+ access / strategy in healthcare / development sector

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.