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The Position

Join the Health System Shaping Lab as a System Shaping Partner. This pivotal role is your opportunity to drive large-scale, long-term national health system reform. Leverage your deep policy expertise and strategic agility to proactively influence legislation, align diverse stakeholders, and ensure sustainable access to cutting-edge healthcare for patients.

As the strategic analyst and implementation expert, you will report to the Government & External Affairs Lead. Your core mission is to shape a resilient market environment by addressing systemic healthcare challenges and championing policy changes that directly support our organization's strategic vision—both current and future.

Key Accountabilities

• Policy and Legislative Foresight: Conduct advanced Legislative Monitoring and Policy Analysis to deliver strategic intelligence, mitigate risks, and uncover opportunities for healthcare innovation.

• National Advocacy: Design and execute high-impact advocacy initiatives, including the development of compelling narratives, position papers, and white papers to advance our National Policy Shaping strategy.

• Stakeholder Ecosystem Collaboration: Build and maintain strategic partnerships with critical external stakeholders—policymakers, thought leaders, payers, and academic institutions—to build evidence and co-create solutions that generate mutual value for patient care and system efficiency.

• Integrated Strategy Execution: Collaborate seamlessly with the Commercialization Community to ensure a unified "OneRoche" approach in all external engagements and communications.

Candidate Profile

Education and Professional Experience

• Education: Master’s degree (required) in Business, Economy, Health Economics, Medicine, Pharmacy, or an equivalent academic background in Life Sciences.

• Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years of proven experience in Reimbursement, Market/Patient Access, or Health Policy, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of healthcare financing, reimbursement systems, and relevant compliance frameworks.

  • Minimum 7 years of professional experience within the Health Care sector in Slovakia.

Required Mindset and Competencies

• Strategic Agility: Ability to maintain a clear focus on the long-term vision while effectively navigating ambiguity, complexity, and uncertainty.

• System Thinking: Capacity to think and operate at an enterprise level, looking beyond organizational boundaries to achieve optimal outcomes for the local health environment.

• Impactful Communication: Exceptional skill in articulating complex value propositions and translating external insights into actionable intelligence for internal teams.

• Agile Mindset: Enthusiastic adoption of agile, self-managed working models based on trust, continuous learning, and adaptability.

• VACC Leadership: Embodies the principles of Visionary, Architect, Coach, and Catalyst, driving change both externally and internally.

Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Bratislava Pribinova is 44,390.00 EUR - 82,450.00 EUR. Roche Slovakia provides 13th month Salary. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 25% subject to both individual and company performance.

This position also offers an attractive benefits package.

Learn more about how we reward our employees at Roche.

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.