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The Position

The Opportunity:

Are you passionate about patient safety and ready to transform healthcare? At Roche, we are seeking a visionary Affiliate Patient Safety Lead (PSL) to champion Roche’s safety vision and drive excellence in pharmacovigilance.

In this pivotal role, you will lead the implementation and oversight of effective local PV systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and Roche’s global standards. By fostering collaboration across local and global networks, you will advance innovative patient safety strategies, co-create impactful solutions, and deliver meaningful outcomes. Your expertise in risk management, safety insights, and compliance will shape safer healthcare systems, improve patient outcomes, and reinforce Roche’s leadership in shaping the future of healthcare. If you are driven by innovation, thrive in dynamic environments, and passionate about patient safety, we invite you to join us on this transformative journey.

Main Responsibilities

• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of an effective PV system, ensuring compliance with Roche’s global standards and local regulatory requirements
• By fostering transparency, consistency, and collaboration, proactively address safety needs, enabling robust PV operations and advancing Roche’s patient safety strategy within the local healthcare ecosystem
• Enable a transparent & effective local PV system
• Maintain comprehensive oversight of local PV compliance, ensuring inspection readiness and acting as the primary point of contact for Safety-related aspects internally and externally, including serving as qualified person for pharmacovigilance (QPPV) or similar, where required by local regulations
• Collaborate with pharmacovigilance hubs to ensure high-quality operational execution of safety-related activities, enabling monitoring of the safety profile of Roche products, meeting regulatory requirements, and maintaining the license to operate
• Drive the implementation of Roche safety vigilance in the affiliate, fostering a mindset of customer centricity and ensuring the delivery of value for patients

Influence and shape the local safety regulatory environment in collaboration with local pharma associations, healthcare organizations, and patient groups, fostering robust and safer healthcare systems.

Who Are You
We are looking for an experienced, innovative leader with a passion for patient safety and a commitment to excellence. We are seeking an experienced PV leader with a passion for patient safety and a commitment to excellence.

Experience and Competencies

• A relevant degree (e.g., MD, life sciences, public health, or pharmaceutical medicine). Formal training in pharmacovigilance recognized by the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority
• Minimum 3-5 years in affiliate PV or related fields (e.g., medical affairs, clinical operations, medical information, clinical product development)
• Proficiency in PV and good understanding of the decision-making process in local and global PV ecosystems. Safety risk management, and integrated healthcare solutions
• Deep understanding of the local environment and proven ability to develop partnerships internally and externally, and experience influencing and negotiating with key stakeholders
• Leadership Skills
• Strategic customer-centric mindset with a strong understanding of patient journeys and healthcare systems and the regulatory landscape systems thinker, outcome-focused planner, and inspiring coach

Why join Roche?

At Roche, we are united by our purpose: Doing now what patients need next. By joining our team, you will be part of a culture that values trust, collaboration, and impact. We empower our people to think big, act boldly, and shape the future of healthcare.

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.