Roche Diagnostics Türkiye Head of External Affairs & Communications — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
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.
- 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.
- Beyond your core responsibilities, you will be jointly accountable for affiliate transformation, fostering an environment of trust, transparency, and patient-centricity that inspires teams to grow, adapt, and excel in a fast-changing market.
- In this role, you will lead and oversee External Affairs, Market Access, and Corporate Communications across the affiliate.
Main responsibilities
- Beyond your core responsibilities, you will be jointly accountable for affiliate transformation, fostering an environment of trust, transparency, and patient-centricity that inspires teams to grow, adapt, and excel in a fast-changing market.
- In this role, you will lead and oversee External Affairs, Market Access, and Corporate Communications across the affiliate.
Company and context
- You will drive strategic public affairs, government relations, and external communication activities, ensuring that healthcare policies, stakeholder engagement, and market access strategies are effectively implemented, aligned with organizational strategy, and continuously improved to maximize patient access.
- A natural leader and coach with a strong entrepreneurial and enterprise mindset, you will architect an environment that enables growth, fast decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration in a complex and volatile landscape.
- You will thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing organization, empowering your team to reach ambitious targets while partnering with peers to deliver overarching business goals.
- Acting as a central integrator across functions, you will ensure alignment with global and regional strategies, manage external stakeholders and legal partners, oversee contract and litigation processes, drive risk assessment, support audits, and coordinate with authorities and institutions.
- What’s expected from you could be categorized as: VACC Leadership
- As a visionary, connect the enterprise vision to people within the affiliate
- As an architect, formulate a strategy to reach our enterprise ambition and ensure affiliate architecture would be enabling factors to achieve those outcomes
- As a catalyst, remove roadblocks, encourage smart-risking taking, experimentation, and rapid learning
- As a coach, empower people to take business decisions Accountabilities
- Strategic Government Relations & Public Policy
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- What’s expected from you could be categorized as:
- As a coach, empower people to take business decisions
- Formulate and execute high-impact public affairs strategies to influence the adoption of international diagnostic standards, guidelines, and healthcare economics policies at the highest levels of state administration and policymaking Market Access & Healthcare Policy
- Lead and coordinate overall market access processes, planning, and budgeting to support health system transformation and improve patient outcomes. Government Affairs & Public Affairs
Notes and original content
- The Position
- VACC Leadership
- Accountabilities
- Formulate and execute high-impact public affairs strategies to influence the adoption of international diagnostic standards, guidelines, and healthcare economics policies at the highest levels of state administration and policymaking
- Market Access & Healthcare Policy
- Lead and coordinate overall market access processes, planning, and budgeting to support health system transformation and improve patient outcomes.
- Government Affairs & Public Affairs
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Basel. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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