Regional Health Care Lead – MER Oncology (m/f/d)

Our Marketing team are passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers’ needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.

We are currently recruiting for the region of MER (Mid Europe) an Oncology Health Care Lead (OHCL) who will play a critical role in enabling pathway optimization to support the introduction of innovative medicines and ensuring that pathways are in place to enable rapid local uptake post national reimbursement. Supporting and sharing across countries the relevant pathway or system improvement initiatives. The MER OHCL will be accountable for the implementation of the regional plan for Oncology, by collaborating and leading the strategic plans with the CER Squads and country OHCLs, ensuring a coordinated and effective approach to deliver on access for patients. This is a role with the requirement for regular travel for the purpose of visiting customers, meeting team members, engaging with third party solution providers. Responsible for leading the MER OHCL multi market squad to support our strategically critical indications to ensure rapid local market access and treatment rate expansion that supports the MER aspiration. Lead and collaborate to create a cohesive, successful cross functional team of leaders. Lead and deliver on focused, consistent, innovative, strategically important projects through a test and learn strategy, scaling as appropriate. Supports the MER oncology strategy and in particular develop the patient journey strategy, in close collaboration with the CER. MER CMO, MER RMLs, Medical, Market access, Policy, Legal and Compliance, Public Affairs, to continue to co-build Oncology solutions and patient journey programs.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads cross collaborations to works as one team and coordinates and prioritizes the development of solutions and programs

• Develops patient solutions/programs in collocation with the MER OHCLs multi market squad and ensures alignment with the CER Squad

• Acts as point of contact for third party solution providers

• Implements the prioritized Oncology solutions and patient programs in collaboration with the country OHCLs

• Works with the country OHCL and strategic accounts to continue to co-build patient journey programs and enrich the current offers, and ensures consistent implementation, in line with the strategic priorities identified by the country oncology team (cross-tumor and strategic accounts)

• Ensures consistency and alignment between all functions involved in the Care Pathway: Oncology Unit, Medical, Market Access, KAMs, BUD, Franchise Leads, Legal and Compliance, Public Affairs, Health Policy and Communication

• Takes into account external monitoring to guide the lines of work on the production of solutions and programs

• Collects and monitors data to track the impact of the implemented solutions

  • Determines and implements team dashboards

  • KPI monitoring

  • Analysis of the use of programs and solutions

• Ensures execution is in line with internal and external procedures and compliance

• Shares and influences the organization to mobilize the necessary resources according to the project

Required skills and experience

• 5+ years of experience in hospital account management, healthcare consultancy or worked in the hospital before. Higher education in science/engineering/business school

• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry & the expectations of healthcare professionals

• Expertise in project management, particularly around patient journeys (required) and ideally in multidimensional project management

• Expertise to work and execute across multiple countries

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Fluent in English

• Strong negotiation skills

• Management experience

• Experience is contracting third party solution providers (required)

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Ability to manage a cross-functional team and prioritize and manage multiple tasks.

• Excellent communication skills (written, oral), interpersonal relationships

• Ability to identify customer needs and develop solutions that are simple and effective.

• Ability to react in real time in adapting the offer to the needs of the account.

• Able to adapt in a changing environment that requires Innovation and Creativity

• Understanding of the oncology patient journey mapping

• Strong ability to collaborate (required)

• Exploration and development of innovative solutions (desired)

• Strong digital and new technologies appetite (desired)

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance rules (desired)

• Strong capacity for conviction / impact internally and externally (desired)

• Comfortable communicating in public (desired)

• Talent development

• Able to make timely decisions, at the right level with relevant solutions

• Expertise Increased knowledge of the hospital field

This role can be based in any of the countries in the MER region.

THE COMPANY

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Tribschenstrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been recently established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world. The new location has a target date of 2021 for operational readiness.

We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

The Ring Center building located in Kriens is our Regional Headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Employees from 50 nations across the region bring their diverse backgrounds and experiences together to develop solutions that benefit all our patients. From this site we provide leadership and support to more than 70 local subsidiaries around the world.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Requisition ID:R248457