Corporate Public Affairs Lead

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to our enterprise Corporate Public Affairs strategy, synergising therapy area challenges and opportunities into portfolio-wide goals that accelerate business outcomes.
• Monitor and analyse the impact of national and, where required, international policy developments on Roche's in-line portfolio and future pipeline, including, but not limited to, MFN, VPAG and NICE processes.
• Utilise your network of senior external stakeholders to proactively identify Corporate Public Affairs opportunities to articulate Roche's value proposition clearly and persuasively.
• Support the Head of Public Affairs in co-ordinating briefing requests and meetings for Roche UK's senior leadership team, including country visits from Global colleagues, ensuring deployment of a consistent and impactful corporate narrative.
• Lead trade body interactions, including deputising for the Head of Public Affairs in supporting the UK General Manager with briefings and strategic advice as required ahead of senior political forum meetings.
• Regularly lead strategic interactions with politicians, policymakers, thinktanks and patient groups aligned with Roche UK's Corporate Public Affairs strategy.
• Coordinate responses to Government consultations to articulate policy positions which support Roche's strategic objectives.
• Act as an internal champion for the Public Affairs team, supporting initiatives to improve understanding and awareness of policy and corporate affairs work.
• Use your persuasive writing skills to craft compelling arguments and proposals to utilise with external stakeholders.
• Apply your strategic insight to achieve long‑term goals with professionalism and tact.
• Provide advisory support to internal teams, driving strategic direction and decision‑making.

Requirements

• Substantive experience in public affairs within a similar commercial organisation or central Government, with a solid understanding of the policy and access issues facing the UK's pharmaceutical industry.
• A strong track record of influencing policy developments and successfully engaging with

Benefits

Additional Information

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. The Position 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. The Position Are you passionate about influencing policy, building partnerships, and driving meaningful access improvements in healthcare? Come and join our growing Public Affairs team, where we continuously analyse and influence how legislation, regulation, and the political environment impact communities and the pharmaceutical industry. Together, we aim to ensure UK patients have the best access to medicines in Europe. At Roche UK, we focus our energy and investment in developing tests and treatments that change lives and give us more quality time with the people we love. And, together with others, we're solving healthcare's greatest challenges; helping to achieve better results by connecting early diagnosis to targeted treatment and ongoing support. A key component to our success is our continual focus on the individuals who are affected by the conditions that Roche focuses on, now and in the future. The Public Affairs team is responsible for how Roche shows up with communities of people with lived experience, and the government bodies, policies and systems that shape our environment. Your Opportunity to Make a Difference 2026/27 will be a year of unprecedented importance for the Roche UK Public Affairs function. With a rapidly evolving political and operational environment, shaped by evolving transatlantic and domestic policy agendas, Corporate Public Affairs will play a decisive and business-critical role in influencing and shaping the external environment to meet Roche UK's goal of reaching twice as many patients by 2030. In this role, you will utilise your profound understanding of the UK political system and healthcare policy landscape to identify, shape and execute Roche UK's Corporate Public Affairs strategy with priority stakeholders. This is a senior, highly visible role that will require a proactive approach to corporate engagement, as well as the ability to manage agency and partner activity.

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