Africa Strategy Lead at Roche

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Africa Strategy Lead

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities
Act as the Project Lead for the Africa Breast Cancer Ambition (ABCA) (60%):

• Sharing accountability with the Africa GMs and local country teams, the ABCA Project Lead serves as the primary point of contact and key driver, ensuring the direction and prioritization of business outcomes and initiatives towards the aligned vision of ABCA, serving as a Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach (VACC) for the Ambition
• Proactively shape and communicate the strategic framing and priorities of ABCA with the Africa affiliates and the broader organization in order to ensure strategic alignment
• Execute the strategy and plans of ABCA on a cross-country level, including initiation and execution of work packages to address prioritized outcomes and ensures alignment of network-level plans and priorities with the ABCA vision, global guidance, and local customer insights, patient needs, as well as market insights, data, and day-to-day network-level operational enabler work
• Manage and allocate the ABCA budget, in partnership with ANET, and the ongoing monitoring of the impact of ABCA investments.

Act as the Strategy Lead for Area Africa (40%):

• Act as a strategic advisor to the Area Head of Africa and the rest of ANET
• Lead and/or support transformation and Area Africa strategy initiatives, including business plans and associated planning processes, strategic initiatives, and cross-Africa projects
• Act as the initial Project Lead for the next strategic pillars in Africa, and help to determine the composition and needs of the broader team for strategic pillars
• Develop and align project plans across key Africa and Global stakeholders
• Translate insights into clear recommendations to support decision-making and own the creation of presentations to communicate it broadly

Professional Experience Requirements

• University / Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required, MBA desirable
• Experience in the Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology Industry in commercial, project management, and/or strategy and operations roles, including business leadership roles
• Experience in strategy development and roll-out at an above-country level
• Fluency in English (spoken and written)
• Strategy consulting experience a plus.

Competencies, Mindset, and Behaviors:

• Strong VACC leadership competencies, with demonstrated competence and impact in leadership roles across the network, team leader or matrix-team lead for large-scale projects/initiatives
• Acute strategic thinking skills and a demonstrated ability for systems-level thinking, with an entrepreneurial and enterprise mindset, and strong commercial acumen and skills (incl. P&L management, negotiations)
• Strong communications skills and able to prepare concise presentations for internal and external communication
• Strong influencing skills: can ensure the accomplishment of goals and targets through indirect leaderships.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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