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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare’s future is driven by the exchange of science and data. As a Publication Coordination Partner at Roche, you’ll be actively shaping this future and giving our wealth of science a voice as a member of the Scientific Communications Community. 

Publication Coordination Partners support the implementation of Scientific Communications (SC) Strategies by ensuring effective coordination, oversight and overall project management of all publications activities with the ultimate goal of changing medical practice. The means of accomplishing these activities may include supporting product-specific teams, Disease Area teams spanning multiple molecules, early research areas and other iterations of team engagement across the lifecycle. 

The Opportunity

• Serve as Primary Point of Contact (PPOC) for a prioritised Disease area and partners with the Global Scientific Communications Leader ( GSCL) and support to prioritise publications activities in need of active project management
• Keep oversight and control over the publication development process E2E including implementation and monitoring of KPIs, track and prepare metric reports incl. Performance of external service providers on quality and spend
• Support running Publication planning cycles including preparation and managing the kick off meetings with Publication Implementation Team (PIT) and/or full author team as required including taking meeting minutes to be shared with all authors
• SupportGSCLs in the creation and maintenance of all publication plans, that allows for timeline and budget transparency and with the aim to keep all critical tactical activities on track throughout the year contributing to achieving defined business outcomes
• Drive planning and management across internal and external stakeholders while leveraging agency partners to help execute on all publications; provides process guidance and oversight to affiliate publications activities 
• Serve as the Single point of contact with our procurement and agency colleagues, manage and monitor timelines and budgets, track costs and savings 
• Run the process for individual publications E2E (from initiation to approval) and ensure consistent use of the underlying publication management system and related systems and related daily operational activities such as supporting GSCLs in development of concept sheets, coordination of reviews & distribution of the publication drafts, commentary review and consolidation, ensure collection of all final author approvals, including follow ups as applicable. 
• Liaise with lead author, agency and internal Roche team to support comment adjudication, including addressing and incorporating any comments/corrections from Quality Control by Roche/Genentech biostatistics 
• Collaborates actively with internal authors, groups and external partners to ensure timely feedback on all publications-related materials; maintain a database to help establish strategies to reduce time from initiation to completion of publications activities 
• Consult with other coordination partners to help establish consistency in how we manage our publications tools and process while remain compliant with our policy
• Partner with colleagues across Medical Affairs and other related functions as such to understand where we are with broader tool and process and policy changes; gather data from the publications process to interrogate data supported opportunities for continuous improvement
• Facilitate collaborative relationships with external colleagues (HCPs, Patients, Medical Societies, etc.) to ensure partnership re: process and project management to reflect the voice of the customer 
• Engage with internal partners (Affiliates, Agencies, business teams, etc.) to assess country/regional needs, process and relevant adjustments in support of your disease area

Who you are:

• 5+ years experience in medical affairs and or medical affairs comms agencies, bio-pharmaceutical industry is an advantage!
• Strong Project Management skills
• Sound experience in Medical communications
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must
• Experience with legacy publication management software (e.g. Datavision, Pubstrat, iEnvision) is an advantage
• Strong sense of accountability, prioritization and continuous improvement mindset
• Strong interpersonal skills, collaboration, and influencing skills, and ability to build trusting and productive relationships
• Ability to learn and implement new IT Systems across the network 
• High ethical standards - responsible for acting in line with legal, regulatory, industry and company standards and codes of practice (such as Roche Code of Conduct, publications-related standard operating procedures, and any other Roche directives)
• Strategic agility and decision-making ability with functional competencies, including but not limited to organisation, prioritisation, negotiation and communication skills

In exchange, we provide you with:

• Development opportunities: free language courses, a wide range of training & learning opportunities, long-term career opportunities, lateral and vertical career moves, exciting projects & assignments, etc.
• Excellent benefits: flexibility (Home office days after your probation period), competitive salary and cafeteria package, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, Coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, Themed Holiday party, people-focused company culture, annual bonus in March, etc.
• We offer you a great opportunity in a truly international work environment with high-profile colleagues and excellent in-house learning and networking opportunities, plus an opportunity to make your mark at Roche. We will make sure your daily work will make an impact and you will be able to learn a lot along the way.

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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.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in Budapest provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the EMEA region. Today Roche employs altogether around 2000 employees in Hungary.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.