Regional Medical Expert — Roche

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The Position Job Title: Regional Medical Expert (RME), Neurology Reporting & Function

• Function: Medical
• Reporting Line: Reports to the Medical Chapter Lead
• Location: Delhi/Mumbai & Bangalore/Chennai
• (Dedicated in-field, 60-70% travel time)

The Opportunity The Regional Medical Expert is a trusted, externally focused, scientifically grounded partner within our customer engagement model. By building and maintaining deep and trusted connections with key customers over a meaningful period of time, you will generate impact by anticipating and proactively optimizing medical practice, ensuring that Roche is a preferred partner in neurology. Your role is designed to maximize medical and scientific activities to accelerate the delivery of our pipeline, differentiate our portfolio based on data, and drive strategic advocacy, community engagement, and access to our neurology portfolio.

As the Regional Medical Expert (Neurology), you are responsible for:-

A. Contributing with Medical Expertise

• Medical Expertise: Proactively contribute strong scientific, medical, and therapeutic area expertise within neurology to inform the differentiation of our pipeline and portfolio.
• Shape Strategy: Lead the medical part of the integrated strategy, shape a scientifically sound and differentiated value story locally, and reflect an end-to-end business perspective that pulls through the strategy with impact.

B. Proactive Customer Engagement & Insights

• Proactive Targeted Medical Engagement: Execute an HCP and account engagement plan aligned with cluster and pan-India medical strategy. Spend the majority of your time proactively engaging with external customers, KOLs, and other key stakeholders as partners in full strategic and operational alignment with other in-field roles.
• Medical Partnership & Education: Build peer-to-peer scientific relationships with HCPs, KOLs, and relevant neurology specialists. Provide current, high-quality Medical Education and support advisory boards, scientific meetings, and institutional forums. Conduct high-quality, non-promotional Scientific Exchanges to foster physician confidence.
• Insight Generation: Systematically identify, capture, analyze, and translate external scientific and clinical practice insights from the field. Share these strategic, actionable recommendations directly with internal stakeholders, including DAMLs, MEs, and MCL.

C. License to Operate & Operational Excellence

• Adherence to Standards: Ensure all activities, including customer engagements and research projects, are conducted in strict compliance with Roche SOPs, UCPMP, local regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (GVP).

D. Evidence Generation

• Evidence Strategy Implementation: Collaborate with DAMLs and MEs to proactively identify local differentiating evidence gaps and facilitate real-world evidence (RWE) opportunities, including registries, observational studies, and externally submitted Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS).
• Clinical Development Support: Support the identification and assessment of potential trial sites and active investigators. Collaborate closely with Clinical Operations to provide proactive input on feasibility and strategic site selection to aid in clinical study execution.

Who You Are

• Education: Advanced degree (MBBS, MD, PharmD, PhD, or MPharm) with a strong scientific foundation.
• Experience: 2–4 years’ experience in Medical Affairs, clinical practice, or a related field. Prior field-base