International Strategic Healthcare Consultant at Roche

The Position

• Roche Diagnostics in Midrand, Lagos or Nairobi is seeking a Strategic Healthcare Consultant to identify, develop and deliver Strategic Roche Healthcare Consulting projects for key stakeholders with the aim of driving the transformation of Healthcare systems within supported markets.
• The successful candidate will be required to drive the internal focus on transformative approaches and new business models including outcomes-based and value-based healthcare approaches and contracts. 
• This role will include a minimum of 70% focus on Pan-African projects and 30% focus on projects across the EMEA LATAM Region with participation in the International Strategic Healthcare Consulting community.

Key Responsibilities
Healthcare Consulting Sustainability:

• To manage the preparation of the offers for strategic consultancy services towards the customers, including for projects which may span multiple countries, by providing the brief, reviewing the draft or drafting proposals and providing input as required
• To create mutually beneficial business partnerships/arrangements with customers, 3rd party suppliers, and/or additional healthcare actors , including Pan-African region level and/or global health level stakeholders, by identifying, researching, analyzing and making recommendations and negotiating strategic alliances in collaboration with the Africa network as required
• To drive new business by identifying, analyzing and comparing alternative opportunities for entering new markets and adopting new strategic consulting services as required
• To champion new and transformative approaches and new business models within the operating context of the Roche Africa Network and EMEA LATAM Region  with a focus on developing transformative approaches to deliver more value for healthcare systems. These might include outcomes-based and value-based approaches amongst other new business models.
• To collaborate with Roche internal networks, including, but not limited to  the Africa network, Global Access & Policy, Roche Global Access Program and EMEA LATAM RHC community to support broad reaching projects.

Strategic Consultancy Delivery:

• To analyse and improve healthcare policy and clinical processes, gathering the related data necessary for the development of business cases for decision-making from healthcare management
• To participate in the development of strategies, contracts, creation of projects and providing specialized consulting services in support of customer and Pan-African stakeholder relationships       
• To create a shared vision with the customer team by supporting them with change management and implementation as required,
• To oversee multi-country project implementation by leading strategic consulting projects and coaching the customer team to reach their goals with tangible outcomes and cost-benefit analysis as required
• To lead and coach cross functional teams on customer projects that are within the Strategic Consulting Scope.
• To support Healthcare Transformation projects by providing specialist Roche Healthcare Consulting methods, skills & experience.
• To monitor delivery by generating reports with different scenarios, analyzing impact on the healthcare outcome, finance, structure, resources and articulating collaborative recommendations showing investments and ROI as required
• To resolve complex customer problems by looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and facilitate implementation of solutions as required, 
• Collaboration with other consulting resources including, but not limited to, Process Consultants to analyze and review different options for optimizing Customer processes and patient flows. 
• To support customer needs by conducting regular status and strategy meetings with the customer’s senior management to understand their needs and link them to the organization’s strategy as required.

Stakeholder Relations:

• To navigate the complex stakeholder management of multi-country projects and balance the project operational needs with the client’s political position, observing all necessary protocols and diplomacy requirements.
• To help maintain the organization’s ongoing relationships with Health Authorities, Industry and Trade Associations and Allied organizations and stakeholders across Africa and within the global health landscape as necessary by continuously engaging them and addressing their queries as required in conjunction with other members of the Healthcare Transformation Team and other internal functions like Medical Affairs and Marketing, Global Access Program Network, One Roche Policy & Partnerships team and other networks as appropriate.
• To contribute meaningfully in the International RHC community by regularly attending and contributing content to meetings and initiatives and by participating on international projects.

Financial Management:

• To monitor finance and ROI for Roche of strategic projects by understanding financial statements and reports and connecting activities with the outcomes in the financial statements and working and interacting closely with the customer/stakeholder financial functions as required.

Requirements
You, as an Ideal Candidate, will have the following Skills, Experience and Education:

• NQF 7 / 8 in a Science related field or similar, plus
• 1 to 3 years in Strategic Thinking or Strategic Management roles.
• 3-5 years experience in sales, marketing or similar
• English required, French and/or Portuguese preferred.