Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years of project management experience., Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills., Experience in medical affairs, clinical operations, or biopharmaceutical industry is advantageous., Proficiency in English and ability to adapt to new IT systems..

Key responsibilities:

Coordinate and oversee publication activities within disease areas.

Manage end-to-end publication development processes and monitor KPIs.

Serve as the primary contact for publication planning and stakeholder collaboration.

Ensure compliance and continuous process improvement in publication management.

Job description

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

Roche Services & Solutions (RSS) - Budapest, Hungary

The Opportunity

Healthcare’s future is driven by the exchange of science and data. As a Publication Coordination Partner at Roche, you’ll be actively shaping this future and giving our wealth of science a voice as a member of the Scientific Communications Community.

Publication Coordination Managers support the implementation of Scientific Communications (SC) Strategies by ensuring effective coordination, oversight and overall project management of all publications activities with the ultimate goal of changing medical practice. The means of accomplishing these activities may include supporting product-specific teams, Disease Area teams spanning multiple molecules, early research areas and other iterations of team engagement across the lifecycle.

Act as the Primary Point of Contact (PPOC) for a prioritized disease area, partnering with the Global Scientific Communications Leader (GSCL) to prioritize and manage publication activities.
Oversee and control the end-to-end (E2E) publication development process, including implementation and monitoring of KPIs, preparing metric reports, and tracking external service provider performance.
Support publication planning cycles by managing kickoff meetings, taking and sharing meeting minutes, and ensuring timeline and budget transparency in collaboration with GSCLs.
Drive planning and management across internal and external stakeholders while providing process guidance and oversight to affiliate publication activities, leveraging agency partners for execution.
Serve as the single point of contact for procurement and agency colleagues, managing timelines, budgets, and costs while ensuring savings are monitored.
Manage the E2E process for individual publications, including concept sheet development, review coordination, commentary adjudication, and collection of final author approvals, using publication management systems.
Collaborate with internal authors and external partners to ensure timely feedback, maintain databases for efficiency, and consult on consistent publication tool and process management while focusing on compliance and continuous improvement opportunities.

Who You Are

5+ years in project management with strong Project Management skills and a ‘can-do’ attitude.
Experience in medical affairs, clinical operations, medical communications agencies, or the wider biopharmaceutical industry is an advantage.
Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusting and productive relationships.
Sound experience in organizational and process excellence to implement and drive complex processes and teams.
Strategic agility and decision-making ability, with competencies in prioritization, negotiation, and communication skills.
High ethical standards ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, industry, and company standards (e.g., Roche Code of Conduct, publication-related SOPs).
Fluency in written and spoken English, with the ability to adopt and implement new IT systems across the network.

In exchange we provide you with

Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career.
Excellent benefits & flexibility: competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. We also ensure flexibility, to help you find your balance: home office is a common practice (2 office days/week on average, and we provide fully remote working conditions within Hungary). We create the opportunity for freedom in working, where your corporate and private life coexist in harmony.
A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. That’s what makes us Roche.

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Who we are

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.

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