Informatics Partner

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The role location is flexible; it can be based in Jordan, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with our stakeholders, including affiliate and regional senior stakeholders, to drive impactful outcomes by leading and co-creating technology-enabled business strategies that align with our local and regional goals & objectives.

  
  

• Apply understanding of external technology trends, long term business strategy to co-develop opportunities/strategies 

  
  

• Bring thought leadership to our stakeholders to shape differentiated capabilities and impact healthcare ecosystems. 

  
  

• Proactively identify business opportunities to architect, design, prototype and deliver continually improved products with business and informatics partners

  
  

• Provide strategic and technical guidance, including the identification of emerging technologies, development of technology roadmaps, and take accountability for the implementation of technology-based solutions.

  
  

• Lead our stakeholders to synthesize and direct requests to connect-the-dots for our Informatics products. 

  
  

• Serve as the primary point of contact for issue escalation and collaborate with Product lead/owner to deliver expected project/opportunity outcome. 

  
  

• Participate in cluster, chapter, domain meetings/ceremonies and Collaboration-Pods (C-Pods) to ensure end-to-end IT effectiveness and collaboration

  
  

• Actively contribute to best practice sharing to advance our collective learning and capability building

  
  

• Continually seeks reuse and promote solutions that address common business opportunities to fulfill business needs

  
  

• Take a leadership role that educates, advises and challenges to enrich business area strategy

  
  

The ideal candidate

• Possesses strong business acumen and foundational knowledge in the assigned partnering area.

  
  

• Understands the external healthcare ecosystem to effectively collaborate with external ecosystem stakeholders

  
  

• Monitors industry/technology trends and market challenges to identify opportunities and co-create strategic solutions.

  
  

• Approaches collaborations with a customer-centric, entrepreneurial and agile mindset to navigate through ambiguity, manage complexity and support the Business to make trade-off decisions

  
  

• Promotes innovation, self-regulation and empowerment of direct and indirect team members

  
  

• Nurtures and develops a business savvy consultative and value-driven partnership.

  
  

• Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset and servant leadership behavior

  
  

• Exhibits systems thinking with a high degree of self-awareness, empathy, deep listening, active curiosity, awareness of different norms and expectations

  
  

• Demonstrates executive presence, navigates ambiguity, manages complexity

  
  

• Demonstrates cultural awareness, and understands market challenges and competitive issues within the region

  
  

• Domain knowledge for the following area(s) is an asset: digital transformation, data & analytics, new technologies (AI and RPA)

  
  

• English proficiency required; Farsi and Arabic are an asset

  
  

At 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.