Medical Partner
About this opportunity
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
A healthier future. That’s what motivates us to innovate. Continuously promote science and ensure that everyone has access to the health care they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.
As a Medical Partner, you will be a trusted, externally focused, and scientifically grounded partner within our customer engagement model. You will be responsible for building deep connections with key external stakeholders, driving integrated medical strategies, generating impactful clinical insights, and ensuring our innovations reach their full potential for patients with an end-to-end perspective.
About the opportunity:
Act as the medical and scientific expert for the pipeline and portfolio throughout the product lifecycle, shaping local integrated strategy and value stories.
Proactively engage with Thought Leaders / Thought Area Experts (TAEs) and healthcare ecosystem stakeholders, ensuring peer-to-peer scientific exchange, medical education, and practice adoption.
Systematically collect, analyze, and translate clinical practice insights into strategic, actionable recommendations for cross-functional teams (Squads).
Lead the development of local Integrated Evidence Plans (IEP) and evidence-generation tactics (including NIS, IIS, and RWE/RWD projects) to address critical clinical and access gaps.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, and Market Access (HTA) teams to support local clinical trials, product submissions, and value demonstration.
Ensure all medical activities, scientific communications, and content (including AI-generated data verification) strictly adhere to internal standards, local regulatory requirements, GCP, and GVP.
Qualification:
Education: Completed degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, or Natural Sciences (MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent).
Advanced/Fluent English for global collaboration, alongside strong local language communication skills.
Solid experience in Medical Affairs, Clinical Research, or equivalent scientific role within Neuromuscular Disease Area.
Strategic acumen, digital literacy (ability to navigate and oversee AI tools/LLMs), and an agile, solution-oriented mindset.
Strong ability to build trusted external networks, communicate complex scientific data assertively, and navigate cross-functional matrix environments (Squad model).
High adherence to compliance, corporate ethics, GCP, and GVP standards while maintaining an entrepreneurial vision for patient impact.
Availability to work in São Paulo.
Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.
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.
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How this role compares
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