phc Retinal Imaging Product Lead

The Position

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, and 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, personalized 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 becomes insights, systems learn. The care experience and health outcomes improve. People benefit.

About This Position

The Pharma PHC organization plays a critical role in realizing Roche’s PHC ambitions. This organization’s purpose is to provide patients and health-care professionals with beyond-molecule PHC solutions that produce additional benefit at less cost to society. 

In PHC Data, Analytics, and Imaging (DAI) we bring data to life. We enable actionable, meaningful, and cutting-edge insights that empower patients and providers to make health-related decisions that improve lives. DAI is involved throughout the PHC product development process. We power PHC’s products with core components, such as data and algorithms, that fulfill unmet needs for patients and health care providers. As experts who push the edge of our craft, we are also entrepreneurial, contributing and pursuing new ideas that have the potential to make life-changing impact. Along the way, we bring our strong, connected networks, partnerships, and collaborative spirit to the work. Unbridled passion and conviction around how data can improve patient lives drives us to apply our individual and collective talents and skills to the field of personalized healthcare. 

As a member of phc-DAI, the Retinal Imaging Product Lead (RIPL) has end-to-end responsibility for leading a cross-functional matrixed team in assessing, validating, building and growing an early-stage algorithm-powered Product (which is part of a phc portfolio).

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrates the building of the algorithm-powered Product from early concept stage through the proof-of-concept stage, including Product Strategy, technical development, evidence generation, regulatory strategy and - if successful - first pilots before deployment at scale in the real-world setting

• Owns the Product Strategy: This includes the strategy related to the assigned product to ensure viability, desirability and feasibility of the product. It includes a needs-based, product-related interaction and alignment with DA/TA to ensure Product fit in a designated disease area

• Provides Technical Leadership by guiding the direction and strategy for the development of the algorithm that is at the core of the phc product in DAI.

• Strong Product Development experience to guide the product throughout the entire development lifecycle, using an agile product development framework

• Has the final accountability for the delivery of the Product’s user, customer and business outcomes

• Is responsible for driving a learning loop cycle to continuously optimize the Product

• Deeply understands the customer’s functional and emotional problems to solve and ensures user-centricity of the solution

• Deeply understands the nature of the Product and ensures that the Product is viable and creates value for the Roche Pharma business

• Motivates and leads a cross-functional, networked, fit-for-purpose team required to deliver the product. Acts as a Visionary, Architect, Coach and Catalyst for team members.

• Makes required trade-offs in the cross-functional team between development, commercial, medical or access requirements; balances product user-growth with product feature-growth

• Manages in- and external stakeholders in order to validate, design and test the product in order to ensure an effective Product roadmap

• Ensures the data strategy & interoperability of the solution: a Product for use at scale through validation pilots across geographies, markets & contexts

• Balances role as primary Product advocate together with objective enterprise perspective; will take the lead on discontinuation considerations when this is in the best interest of the portfolio / enterprise

Skills and Capabilities:

• Has a bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, computer science or engineering; Master’s, OD, MD, PhD or MBA preferred

• 10 years experience in leading positions in digital health, diagnostics, and/or Pharma; several years working on technology powered healthcare products preferred

• Strong strategic mindset, able to manage interactions and alignment within PHC and with the DA/TA

• Strong technical leadership and knowledge of data science, analytics, and imaging

• Strong Product Development experience, and utilizing an agile development framework

• Fluency in agile methodologies and modern approaches to product development

• Ability to manage complex, ambiguous, high-pressure milestone-driven projects with ambitious timelines

• Experience of managing complex projects with ambitious milestones in high pressure circumstances

• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and has an entrepreneurial character; is passionate about the potential impact of PHC

• Deep knowledge of customers, users and health systems; understanding of regulatory and commercial pathways

• Excellent understanding of the business & viability requirements of the Product

• Healthcare knowledge and experience in Ophthalmology preferred

• Understanding of (imaging) data management for medical devices, advanced computational tools/methods, and IT solutions

• Experience in the design, testing, validation, management, deployment and delivery of healthcare product solutions at scale

• Ability to balance software development, deployment and go-to-market strategies, as well as the clinical and regulatory pathway of medical devices (especially software as medical device or imaging-based in-vitro diagnostics)

• Shows good judgment and is a strong decision-maker

• Ability to allocate resources effectively and responsibly within a given budget; demonstrated ability to work in a lean manner utilizing as few resources as necessary

• Proven ability to engage and closely collaborate with a cross-functional, cross-cultural, global team

• Visionary, inspirational and motivational leadership skills with a pioneering spirit and a sense of urgency and pragmatism

• Ability to thrive in an evolving and ambiguous environment (e.g. be aware of FDA guidance, changing in- and external processes, definitions, heath systems, etc.) with high resilience and adaptability to change

Other requirements:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• An international perspective

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