Lead Policy Impact

Job Description

Job SummaryThis role is crucial to our vision to deliver better outcomes to more patients faster in India. As a key member of the Access team, Lead - policy impact, will guide the development of national strategies that improve patient outcomes in key therapeutic areas such as oncology, rare diseases and haemophilia and will also provide support to our State HSPs as they build local strategies and partnerships for health system and policy strengthening in key States. Vital to success in this role is the ability to work with different internal teams and collaborate for projects that drive health system and policy change. Reporting to the Access Director, you will work to catalyse and inspire different teams to implement national and local strategies in line with affiliate priorities. Short Term Targeted Outcomes:
• Development of policy engagement framework for state governments/reimbursed ecosystems and roll out in at least 5 states, and 1 reimbursed ecosystem
• Enable enable insurance guideline reform (with specific focus on standard of care, hassle free patient experience, and reduction in arbitrary reductions/exclusions/caps) by partnering with relevant stakeholders (PAGs, industry bodies, policy advocates, HCPs, IMA etc)
• Catalyse implementation of co-pay/fund pooling/fund stacking model in at least 2 states (1 in enterprise 1 from main clusters)
• Drive policy change towards increased prioritisation of cancer/sma/haemophilia across awareness & diagnosis, standard/ distributed treatment, access to innovative therapies/preventive care/disease modifying care and increased funding towards the disease in at least 2 clusters. (1 in enterprise 1 from main clusters)
• Facilitating creation of sustainable funding mechanism by governmental and non-governmental organisations amounting to 10 mn CHF per annum for patients to access Roche therapies through policy advocacy efforts (current new products)
• Advocate for and enable inclusion/reimbursement of CGP in at least 1 ecosystem (CGHS, Defence, Railways, ESI, or any state Government)
Accountabilities
• Advise the HSPs, supporting ideation and implementation of strategies in line with business priorities
• Provide subject matter expertise to the Roche India affiliate on policy engagement and advocacy
• Support the development of National Policy Advocacy strategies in oncology, rare diseases and haemophilia (working with HSPs and Patient Advocacy Leads)
• Build partnerships with key policy, public health and academic institutions for collaborations supporting national and state strategies
• Provide guidance on development and implementation of State health system and policy strategies supporting external meetings as necessary
Competencies and strengths
• Deep understanding of policy and advocacy strategy and demonstrable experience in tactical implementation and impact
• Comprehensive understanding of global and India policy trends and strengths in policy analysis to inform business strategy
• Strong people leadership skills and experience as a coach and mentor
• Strategic agility- ability to drive projects in an evolving business and policy environment to meet short as well as long term goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal and network building abilities are essential for internal and external relationship management
• Design thinking and workshop facilitation to support agile strategy development
• English language fluency for written and verbal communication
• Exhibition of Roche Leadership Commitments and Values
Qualifications and experience
• Post-graduate qualifications in relevant areas of policy, advocacy, communications or public health
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in private or public sector in policy
• Must have worked in leadership roles in large organisations with experience of people management and influencing in networked organisations
• Understanding and experience of India healthcare policy environment and pharmaceutical policy is very beneficial
Who we areAt Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we ve become one of the world s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Job Level:Manager without direct reports,

Keyskills :
standard of carepatient advocacypeople managementsubject matter expertisepatient outcomespolicy analysisrare diseasespublic sector