Patient Journey Partner - Ophthalmology

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

• Patient Journey Partner - Ophthalmology
• This position is based in Chennai
• Key Responsibilities

End to end management of Top Therapy Area Expert relations and legitimate needs through the right identification of challenges, beliefs, and motivators.

Complete understanding of account ecosystem, stakeholders, key influencers, decision makers, and patient profiling to create account/customer/patient persona-based solution through outside-in approach.

• •Contribute to the organization's understanding of the patient journey and customer buying process (treatment protocols/decision criteria, disease-specific etc.) and motivators.
• •Map the patient journey, understand the barriers of disease-specific leverage points, and co-create patient-centric solutions with the customer.

Develop account end-to-end relationships by understanding account vision, strategy, and tactics, and creating a shared value partnership.

Be the one point of contact for brand and therapy-related query resolution of the HCPs.

Improve the adoption of Roche innovation by building conviction on Roche innovation.

Accountable for overall patient and business impact from the customer and actively contributes to the cluster P&L.

Responsible for the successful implementation of commercial contracts in the assigned accounts.

Establish relationships with customers, partners, stakeholders and other influencers in the account to build sustainable long-term partnership.

To understand account-specific hurdles to Roche Innovations & co-create solutions with Stakeholders to develop relevant Value propositions.

Provide account insights & inputs to the launch excellence team.

Inspire hospital stakeholders by creating value propositions and ensuring faster New Product/SKU inclusion in the account.

Projection, forecasting & inventory management of key accounts and share key insights with cluster team on account performance trends.

Behavioral Competencies

Exhibition of Roche Leadership Commitments and Roche Core Values

Patient centricity in decision making

Strategic Communication

Strong Collaboration and Networking skills

Inspiring and Influencing

Eligibility Criteria (Qualification and Experience)

Relevant experience in the Ophthalmology landscape or specialty background

Relevant graduate delivery required, post-graduation preferred

More than 8 years’ experience with 4+ years in Healthcare/Pharmaceutical or similar preferred

Through understanding of designing and implementing patient support programs including proven project/program management expertise

Strong collaboration and networking skills, process orientation, and alliance management

English language knowledge, written and verbal is preferred; knowledge of local language is an advantage

Willingness to relocate

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.