Data Collaborations and Operations Manager

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Data Collaborations & Operations Manager

Expert and Catalyst who partners closely with PHC product teams (Proof of Concept, POC and Integrated Solutions, IS) to craft and deliver on external data strategies, including assessing, onboarding and enabling the utilization of RWD to meet business needs e.g. developing and/or deploying Integrated Solutions

Today only a fraction of humanity receives the best healthcare. There are many reasons why effective and efficient healthcare may not be available to all, why the latest innovations are not widely adopted and integrated into care, why tailored care plans are not always accessible. But one thing is certain humanity deserves better. The focus needs to broaden—from treating disease…to delivering patient-centered healthcare.

At Roche, personalised healthcare (PHC) means better health, at a lower cost, for people and society. It means shifting from a one-size-fits-all approach to the best care for each person. The convergence of pioneering science, data, analytics and technology—existing and new—is central to this vision. When data become insights, systems learn. The care experience and health outcomes improve. People benefit.

Key responsibilities

• Partner closely with POC/IS teams and Data/Infrastructure Partnership Lead/Strategists to develop and execute on a holistic data/infrastructure partnership strategy throughout the PHC product development lifecycle -- e.g. to enable algorithm training/validation, test product performance, address key clinical/commercial questions, evaluate deployment opportunities

• Support cross-functional teams by navigating complex modality-specific challenges (highly diverse data acquisition standards, highly dynamic and innovative internal / external algo and data landscape) and identify/mitigate interdependencies and risks

• Continuously translate business, scientific, and analytic requirements into actionable data, annotation, and infrastructure specifications to enable the identification of existing and new data sources as well as infrastructure and deployment partners

• Work with Partnering, Procurement, Data Scientists, Clinical/Medical teams to identify, prioritize, perform due diligence and contract with data/infrastructure partners, determine resource requirements and timelines optimally suited to data and product development strategy and roadmaps

• Drive the process of streamlining/standardizing data access, quality control, management, labeling and use of external data according to relevant SOPs working closely with PHC-IX, Data Scientists/Strategists, Medical experts and others; ensure data privacy, governance, licensing terms and IP considerations are satisfied in collaboration with Compliance and Legal

• Act as the primary point of contact for data partner(s) to ensure each partnership evolves along with business needs, including sunsetting agreements when appropriate and deliverables are met according to timelines

• When necessary, manage key partnership interfaces e.g. joint project teams and steering committees

• Identify and leverage cross-functional synergies; share learnings with peers and colleagues to ensure process excellence and efficient and flexible use of resources

Capabilities

• Understand strategy and business goals driving the need for external data and infrastructure partnerships

• Understanding algorithm / product development and ability to translate data science requirements into data acquisition, labeling, and use requirements

• Effective facilitation of internal/external cross-functional teams driving and implementing collaboration, identification of interdependencies and mitigation of risk

• Technical expertise and project management skills to onboard partner data into in-house infrastructure (curate, qualify, deliver data etc.), ensure experiments designed appropriately to test data, run data close-out process/documentation as well as prioritize and deliver on multiple tasks / goals

• Relationship management skills to liaise with partner stakeholders as needed during partnership lifespan

• Understands requirements to successfully deploy technology into a healthcare system

Experience

• Working across imaging/digital health, data science, IT domain knowledge with a demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder groups with diverse scientific/technical backgrounds

• Accessing and leveraging relevant clinical trial/real-world imaging data (eg CT/PET/MRI scans, OCT, digital pathology, multi-modal RWD) in regulated environment

• Strong track record of working with academic partners, healthcare systems, vendors in imaging/digital space

• Good grasp of clinical trial operations and point of care workflow with regard to data management/pipeline, storage, privacy, anonymization policies/tools

• Knowledge of key contracting considerations (IP, licensing, publications)

• Working knowledge of multidisciplinary functions involved in algo/product development (eg data science, informatics, clinical science, biostatistics, clinical/commercial operations)

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