Patient Journey Partner Oncology

Employment; Muscat; On-site; OMR 50,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Patient Journey Partner for Oncology in Oman. You will lead the local patient journey, partnering with healthcare professionals, academics, and patient advocacy groups to co-create value. The role is full-time and based in Oman, with agile, collaborative work in a dynamic team.

You will drive disease-area strategy, engage stakeholders, and ensure responsible use and communication of oncology products. Fluency in English and strong cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Medical or Pharmacy.
• Experience engaging with healthcare professionals and patient advocacy groups.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and agile projects.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the local face of Roche, partnering with stakeholders across the patient journey.
• Lead disease-area strategy and coordinate omnichannel engagement and launches.
• Manage compassionate use, local evidence, and external materials with governance and quality.

Skills

Customer engagement

Cross-functional teams

Agile methodologies

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Medical or Pharmacy

Advanced life science degree

MBA (optional)

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.

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

Introduction

Roche is a company with a 125 year history and our ongoing success is based on our strong focus on delivering meaningful value for our customers and society, and we will need to evolve our offering and approach in order to do so.

In response to the increasingly volatile world we live in, Roche Pharma International began a wide scale transformation process - changing our ways of working to be more agile, less hierarchical, highly collaborative. Now we take the next STEP in our journey focusing on how we can deliver the greatest value and make a meaningful difference to our customers, patients and society.

The PositionA healthier future. It is 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 is what makes us Roche.

• A full-time permanent patient journey focused position
• An opportunity to make a difference in Oman healthcare ecosystem
• Agile and flexible work setting within a dynamic team

Your Impact

The Patient Journey Partner (PJP) for Oncology in Oman is at the center of the new Roche organization, turning upside down the role we play in society - from mostly offering world-class medicines towards much more partnering, innovating and leading generative disruption. By doing so, the PJP will be directly accountable to deliver better outcomes for patients, their community, the ecosystem and the organization, faster.

The PJP for Oncology in Oman is an empowered leader and the local face of Roche. They partner closely with all stakeholders directly touching the patient journey in a given therapeutic area, (including but not limited to healthcare professionals, academics & patient advocacy groups) gaining a deep understanding of their needs in order to connect Roche’s capabilities to co-create meaningful solutions.

Your Challenges

• Brings the outside into Roche - working with partners to uncover potential opportunities that can transform outcomes for patients, faster. You also bring the inside out via Roche expertise, science and knowledge to the Oman Healthcare ecosystem.
• Acts as a trusted partner and is the primary (but non-single) point of contact between external stakeholders and Roche.
• Stewards Roche’s Oncology products through their lifecycle and supports their appropriate use, which includes proactively and reactively sharing scientific, educational and non-promotional information with stakeholders in a truthful and balanced manner.
• Partners with patient journey stakeholders to remove roadblocks and unlock possibilities to deliver value for patients and the community.
• Leads the local disease area strategy andcoordinating in collaboration with others to ensure optimal planning and resource allocation, coordinated omnichannel customer engagement, disease area partnerships and launch excellence in order to execute on local, regional and global outcomes.
• Manage activities such as compassionate use, pre-license access, grants, external materials, clinical trial support, local evidence generation etc. to a high standard, with the oversight and approval of functional enablers.

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor's degree (Medical or Pharmacy), An advanced degree in life science and/or MBA is a plus.
• You have substantial experience in collaborating with healthcare professionals and patient advocacy groups and have strong customer engagement focus across multiple therapy areas. Experience within the field of Breast Cancer would be a plus.
• You demonstrate a growth mindset and deep understanding of patient journey(s) and related treatments in a therapeutic area, enabling engagement at the specialist level.
• You are strategic in the way you think and a deep listener who is passionate about building and collaborating internally, with therapeutic area experts and related organizations.
• You are experienced in leading projects and cross-functional teams including experience or strong understanding of agile ways of working, and orchestrating cross-functional teams and strategies.
• You possess a strong business acumen with desired expertise in commercialization, medical and customer experience excellence.
• You have excellent verbal and written English communications skills
• You bring flexibility, creativity and enthusiasm

This role is only open to candidates that have full eligibility to live and work in Oman.

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.