Medical Value Lead Oncology

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche in Riyadh is seeking a Medical Value Lead to act as scientifically grounded partner within our customer engagement model, shaping medical strategy and building connections with key external stakeholders. You will translate insights, support education, and collaborate with Clinical Operations and Regulatory teams to accelerate pipeline delivery while upholding data integrity and ethics.

Fluency in English and Arabic is required to engage with global and local ecosystems; a medical degree

Qualifications

• You hold a completed degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, or Natural Sciences.
• You bring solid experience in Medical Affairs, Clinical Research, or related clinical role.
• You possess strong communication and engagement skills with external clinical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the local medical strategy to communicate a scientifically sound, differentiated value story across the asset lifecycle.
• Build peer-to-peer relationships with TAEs and healthcare professionals for non-promotional scientific exchanges.
• Translate clinical insights to inform cross-functional disease strategy and gap analysis.
• Provide high-quality medical education and lead scientific advisory boards.
• Partner with Clinical Operations and Regulatory teams on study site engagement and trials.
• Uphold data integrity and ethical standards in medical and digital information.

Skills

Medical Affairs

Clinical Research

Strategic Thinking

Digital Tools

Communication

Education

MD/PharmD/PhD

Tools

AI platforms

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 As a Medical Value Lead

You will serve as a trusted, scientifically grounded partner within our customer engagement model. You will build and maintain deep connections with key external stakeholders to optimize medical practice, accelerate our pipeline, and ensure Roche remains a preferred healthcare partner across core disease areas.

Your Responsibilities

Proactively drive medical strategy: Shape and execute the local medical strategy to communicate a scientifically sound, differentiated value story across the asset lifecycle.

Engage key scientific partners: Build peer-to-peer relationships with Top Academic Experts (TAEs) and healthcare professionals, dedicating substantial in-field time to non-promotional scientific exchanges and collaborative partnerships.

Translate clinical insights: Systematically gather and analyze field-based insights—including patient perspectives—to inform cross-functional disease strategy and clinical gap analysis.

Deliver scientific education: Provide high-quality medical education, support internal team capability building, and lead scientific advisory boards to advance clinical confidence and practice adoption.

Support clinical research & access: Partner with Clinical Operations and Regulatory teams on study site engagement, health authority exchanges, and local trial feasibility to accelerate pipeline delivery.

Ensure data integrity: Serve as a custodian of medical and competitor data, upholding rigorous scientific standards, ethics, and human-in-the-loop validation for digital and medical information inquiries.

Who You Are

You are an empathetic, scientifically curious partner who thrives in cross-functional environments and is passionate about translating complex data into meaningful health outcomes.

Advanced Scientific Education:

You hold a completed degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, or Natural Sciences (MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent).

Medical Affairs Expertise:

You bring solid experience within Medical Affairs, Clinical Research, or a related clinical role within a specific therapeutic domain.

Communication & Engagement:

You possess strong, assertive communication skills with a proven ability to engage in peer-to-peer scientific dialogue with external clinical leaders.

Strategic & Digital Acumen:

You demonstrate strategic thinking, adapt comfortably to digital tools, and understand the importance of human oversight when utilizing AI-derived scientific content.

Language Proficiency:

Fluency in English is required for global collaboration, alongside fluency in Arabic to effectively engage with local healthcare ecosystems.

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. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.