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.
Affiliate: Roche Pharma Korea
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Job summary
The Innovation and Strategic Initiatives Lead Korea (“Lead”), is a high-impact role responsible for coordinating critical Roche Korea innovation Initiatives and managing interdependencies across the matrix organization while maximizing the impacts.
This Lead acts as the Primary Point of Contact, driving the execution of existing key initiatives while possessing the core mandate to continuously identify, scope, strategise, advocate and launch new projects that expand Roche's innovation reach and impact across the Korean healthcare ecosystem.
Reporting to GM, the Lead will work closely with various internal functions to ensure full actions and timely planning and execution of strategies. The initial focus will center on two major Initiatives: securing the IPC (Innovative Pharmaceutical Company) designation and transforming the patient journey within Early Breast Cancer (eBC) by leveraging advanced Digital and AI solutions.
Key Accountabilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end success of the innovative initiatives across the following pillars:
1. Strategic Matrix Leadership & Execution
Leading and coordinating all internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and accountability for the delivery of all strategic initiatives.
Refine project timelines, key milestones, and critical signals required for current and future investment rounds.
Drive the collaboration between local and global teams to navigate challenges and leverage resources to deliver business results.
Partner with Government Affairs to shape supportive policies and embed the project's value proposition into the Korean national agenda.
Partner with functional teams to drive and ensure their accountability for the timely generation, rigorous utilization, and strategic deployment of evidence (RWE, HEOR, TIM) to successfully support reimbursement and policy efforts.
Ensure close collaboration with the above country network to ensure scalability of initiatives to other markets.
Ensure all Initiatives-specific external communication is clear, professional, and strategically aligned with the organization’s overall messaging.
Collaborate with Finance and other leaders to develop, track, and manage the end-to-end budget for all strategic projects and future growth initiatives.
2. Solidifying Factbase & Strategic Ambition
Act as the project owner for initial key initiatives, including the IPC designation and the Early Cancer program, ensuring all goals are met and reported effectively to senior leadership.
Proactively monitor the Korean healthcare and policy landscape to identify, evaluate, and propose new strategic initiatives and investment opportunities that align with Roche's future growth strategy.
Identify strategic choices for implementing and scaling IPC and digital diagnostic solutions within the Korean market, considering the current regulatory and competitive landscape.
Identify Additional Opportunities and Initiatives:
Significantly expand Roche's innovation impact by building and nurturing strategic alliances with local academia, IT start-ups, and other third-party innovators.
Competitor & Market Analysis:
Monitor competitor investments and strategies within the digital health, oncology, and broader healthcare sectors.
3. AI & Digital Partnership Execution:
Drive the identification, negotiation, and execution of MOUs and partnerships with key AI/digital health or bio-technology innovators.
Oversee the successful launch of the AI screening pilot program (2026) and develop the strategy for scaling it into real-world clinical practice (2027-28).
Role Requirements (Qualifications)
Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience within significant matrix initiatives.
Experience in the Pharmaceutical or healthcare industry is preferred.
Leadership & Influence: Proven strategic cross-functional leadership or inspirational indirect leadership capability, with a proven track record of successfully driving outcomes, being a good coordinator, and working with people without direct authority to secure commitment across the matrix organization.
Visionary Strategic Planning: Ability to translate ambiguity and complexity into a clear, actionable, multi-year strategic vision with defined investment milestones.
Strong business acumen : A strong business acumen and knowledge of the Korean healthcare system is required.
Strong Stakeholder Management: Proven track record leading large-scale, complex projects and successfully managing cross-functional internal stakeholders while ensuring accountability.
Partnership Mastery: A verifiable track record of successfully initiating and executing multi-stakeholder engagements with external bodies.
Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate a high-level, ambiguous vision into a concrete, actionable, multi-year plan with clear milestones.
High learning agility, resilience, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Action-Oriented: Proven ability to drive execution across a multi-year roadmap with clear milestones and defined deliverables
Demonstrated experience in scouting, negotiating, and executing AI/digital health partnerships is preferred.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills (both English and Korean proficiency is critical)
Submission
자유 양식의 국/영문 이력서 및 국/영문 자기소개서 (하나의 MS Word 혹은 PDF 파일로 제출)
※ 이력서 상단에 반드시 현재 연봉과 희망 연봉을 표기하시기 바랍니다. 누락 시 이력서가 검토되지 않습니다.
※ 이력서 내 이메일 주소와 서류전형 지원 사이트의 입력하시는 이메일 주소를 반드시 동일하게 작성해주시기 바랍니다.
※ 국가보훈대상 및 장애인은 관련 서류 제출시 관련 법규에 의거 우대합니다.
※ 이력서에 개인민감정보 (신체적 조건, 출신 지역, 혼인 여부, 가족관계 등)는 기재하지 말아주십시오.
※ 입사 지원 서류에 허위 사실이 발견될 경우, 채용 확정 이후 라도 채용이 취소될 수 있습니다.
Process
서류 전형▶ 면접 전형 ▶ 종합 심사 ▶ 최종 합격 통지
※ 면접은 서류전형 합격자에 한해 개별 통보합니다.
※ 면접 일정 안내 및 조율을 위해 해외 번호(중국)로 연락이 갈 수 있는 점 미리 안내드립니다.
※채용이 유력한 후보자에 대해서 이력 검증 및 평판 조회, 건강검진 등의 종합심사를 진행하여 최종 합격자를 선정합니다.
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.