Product Specialist (Diabetes Care) - Riyadh

Roche; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company is looking for a Product Specialist to join their team in Riyadh. The role focuses on managing the product lifecycle of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems, ensuring successful launches and market engagement. Ideal candidates will have a degree in medical or life sciences, experience in sales or marketing, and a passion for improving diabetes care. Must be fluent in Arabic and English. Join us in expanding healthcare access and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales, marketing, or product support roles.
• Understanding of the healthcare business and commercial processes.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support product lifecycle management of the CGM portfolio.
• Execute Go-to-Market activities with cross-functional teams.
• Adapt marketing strategies for healthcare professionals.

Skills

Sales experience

Marketing experience

Strong communication skills

Presentation skills

Planning and organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Fluent in Arabic

Fluent in English

Education

University degree in medical, clinical, or life sciences

MBA or equivalent business qualification

Job description

The Position

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 Product Specialist – CGM will support product lifecycle activities, commercialization execution, and field enablement to ensure optimal product availability, strong customer engagement, and successful launches and claim extensions. The role will work closely with the Middle East subchapter, local country teams to ensure effective execution of CGM strategies across Middle East networks.

Your Responsibilities

• Support product lifecycle management of the CGM portfolio at country level, including product launches, claim extensions, forecasting inputs, pricing guidance support, value proposition articulation, and third-party product coordination.
• Execute Go-to-Market activities in collaboration with cross‑functional teams (Medical, Access, Commercial, Regulatory, and Quality), supporting commercial readiness and tender‑related activities.
• Adapt and localize marketing strategies, key messages, and assets for HCPs, patients, pharmacists, and retailers, ensuring brand consistency and regulatory compliance.
• Support sales excellence initiatives through product, competitive, and value‑based training, sales messaging, field engagement tools, and customer presentations.
• Support KOL engagement activities focused on product education, experience exchange, and best‑practice sharing, in close collaboration with the Medical team and in line with compliance requirements.
• Execute trade marketing and retail initiatives, including POS materials, bundle execution, and in‑store visibility activities to support patient acquisition and retention.
• Collect and share competitive intelligence and market insights to support positioning, customer engagement, and Go‑to‑Market optimization.
• Support industry events, conferences, and stakeholder engagements, including coordination of compliant material approval processes and quality alignment.
• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction while maintaining compliance with local laws, SOPs, Roche policies, and quality standards.

Who You Are

• You hold a University degree in a medical, clinical, or life sciences field. An MBA or equivalent business qualification is considered a plus.
• You have experience in sales, marketing, product support, or related commercial roles, with a good understanding of healthcare business and commercial processes.
• You demonstrate strong communication, presentation, planning, and organizational skills.
• You are passionate about diabetes care and understand how CGM can improve patient outcomes and daily disease management.
• You bring advanced interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
• You are comfortable engaging with customers and stakeholders in complex environments, and you are committed to enhancing the customer experience.
• You are fluent in Arabic and English.

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.