At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters. The Position The Opportunity As a Medical Affairs Lead, you will play a central, highly collaborative role in our global mission by planning and implementing medical activities for our products in the customer area of Core Lab Reagents with focus on our women's health and endocrinology portfolio. You will join a fast-paced, matrixed environment where your scientific acumen and operational focus will directly shape our Global Medical Plan. This is an opportunity to combine science with strategy, ensuring that clinical value and medical insights are seamlessly integrated across our product lifecycle. Your main responsibilities Shape Global Medical Plans: Contribute to annual and ongoing medical planning, delivering situational analysis and defined strategy to drive the lifecycle of our diagnostic innovations. Master Stakeholder Engagement: Drive the mapping of global Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and professional societies, managing lists of current and emerging experts to bring external know-how in-house. Execute High-Impact Activities: Lead the end-to-end execution of medical education, advisory boards, and scientific activities at major international congresses in close collaboration with our local affiliates. Manage Strategic Budgets: Oversee medical activity budgets and plan resource allocation in alignment with broader product teams and corporate finance. Ensure Scientific Integrity: Conduct thorough reviews of non-promotional medical materials, ensuring absolute alignment with global legal, regulatory, and company codes of practice. Cultivate Global Partnerships: Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional leaders, clinical trial investigators, and external alliance partners, including Contract Research Organizations (CROs). Drive Process Optimization: Permanently optimize processes to increase quality and efficiency standards across our medical operations. Who You Are You are a proactive, adaptable professional who thrives when collaborating across diverse teams. You are deeply patient-centric, possessing the strategic mindset and communication skills needed to translate complex data into clear medical concepts and influence diverse points of view. To be successful in this role, you bring: Advanced Scientific Background: An advanced degree in Life Science or a related field, combined with relevant expertise in the healthcare industry or academia. Deep Sector Experience: 5 years of experiencein medical affairs, clinical development or scientific communication functions is preferred; project management or product marketing experience is a plus. As well as experience in one or more of the following indications Women's Health, Endocrinology, Laboratory Medicine Matrix Leadership Mastery: A proven track record of leading within matrixed organizations, making strategic decisions, and effectively influencing stakeholders. Cross-Cultural Agility: Demonstrated capability to partner across diverse regions, cultures, and time zones to actively build an environment of belonging and inclusion. Effective Communication: Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, allowing you to independently navigate complex situations and explain difficult concepts. At Roche, inclusion isn't just a policy-it's a way of life. Together, we don't just accept individuality-we embrace it. Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process. 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. Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.