Job Description

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people's varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

The Roche Kuwait early in career Program is a 12 months rotational development program at Roche. The program is tailored for high potential individuals at an early stage of their career, and NO work experience is required. The program accelerates their professional development and enables them to be key contributors to Roche's purpose and what patients need next.

Roche Kuwait offers Product Specialist position for a period of 11 months and one month rotation with the below main responsibilities:

Your Responsibilities

Proactively acquires a deep understanding of the external environment (healthcare system, policies) to anticipate future trends and formulates a strategic view of the market, competition, and products erosion in both short and long terms.

Build marketing plans analyzing the relevant markets and defining long and short-term qualitative and quantitative objectives.

Where relevant, implement the launch excellence framework to build leading launch plans.

Translates Roche plans into a strong actionable operational plan with clear goals, actions, accountabilities and measures across the cross-functional team.

Sets responsible and challenging goals with appropriate KPIs for the brand that have a clear positive impact on business performance.

Ensuring the good implementation of tactical plans by collaborating with a cross functional team (Sales/Market Access/Medical/SFE/Marketing).

Achieving marketing objectives as agreed with management, managing the development and implementation of marketing plans consistent with approval strategy.

Ensures that all products for which you are responsible are actively forecast each month as per the forecasting and product introductions processes.

Manages the introduction and withdrawal of products as per the product introduction/withdrawal process.

Ensures that changes affecting products are communicated as per the product change communication process.

Ensures that all commercial product management tasks are properly implemented in a timely manner in accordance with the procedures in place.

Accountable for ensuring compliance's rules & ethic code when working with Health Care Professional to strengthen the company's image.

Ensures all the support for the sales team/MA team comply with relevant acts, legal demand and ethical standards and in line with the marketing plan.

Your Opportunity

Participants build an extensive network within Roche and upskill themselves

Best possible work environment is designed to foster participants' learning experience

Participants will have access to senior leaders and will be assigned to a mentor to support their career journey

Contributing to purpose driven projects and taking responsibilities from day 1

Who You Are (requirements)

You hold a Bachelor or Master degree in Life Sciences, Economy, Business, Public Affairs or any related area

You are at an early stage in your career. Fresh graduates will be preferred

Having a basic understanding of healthcare system is preferred

You are eager to work with diverse cultures

You are curious and have passion for learning new things, and have high degree of integrity and courage

You have excellent communication and innovative skills

You are proficient in English

Our mission Roche is a global pioneer and leader in Personalized Healthcare. We provide breakthrough differentiated medicines and diagnostic tests using expertise in Science, Technology and Data so that people can live better lives. We believe it's urgent to deliver medical solutions right now - even as we develop innovations for the future. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all.

We are living in truly historic times. The rapid digitalization of healthcare fuels an accelerated transformation in our industry. This change requires leaders who are entrepreneurial, who trust and encourage teams to take risks, learn and progress quickly.

Program Characteristics/Scope

A rotational talent development program

12 months in different disciplines

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.