ExecutiveFull TimeEN
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As the Head of Patient Safety (GCC), you will play a pivotal role in shaping how we bring innovation to patients responsibly and sustainably across the region. This is a senior leadership position that transcends traditional pharmacovigilance, sitting at the heart of regulatory trust, clinical practice, and patient outcomes.
Your Responsibilities
Shape Regional Strategy: Define and drive the Patient Safety vision across GCC markets, aligning local execution with global priorities.
Lead a Key Market: Directly oversee Patient Safety in Saudi Arabia, a strategically vital and high-growth market, ensuring alignment with national healthcare transformation.
Drive Innovation: Move beyond compliance-only models toward integrated safety risk management that directly impacts clinical practice and patient care.
Influence Externally: Represent Roche in key regulatory and industry forums, strengthening our position as a trusted partner with health authorities.
Empower Talent: Lead and mentor a high-performing team of safety professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
Simplify & Optimize: Contribute regional insights to evolve Roche's global safety systems, balancing global consistency with essential local relevance.
Who You Are
You are a visionary leader who thrives in complex, evolving environments and possesses the strategic mindset needed to translate safety insights into meaningful patient impact. You are a collaborator at heart, capable of influencing senior stakeholders and health authorities.
Experienced Leader: You bring significant leadership experience in Patient Safety, Pharmacovigilance, or Regulatory Affairs, with a proven track record of managing regional or complex cross-country teams.
Strategic Navigator: You have a deep understanding of healthcare systems within the GCC; experience navigating the regulatory landscape in Saudi Arabia is highly valued.
Relationship Builder: You excel at engaging with external stakeholders and health authorities to build long-term regulatory confidence.
Transformation Catalyst: You are comfortable driving change, building team capabilities beyond traditional compliance, and integrating safety into broader clinical and medical decision-making.
Effective Communicator: You possess strong executive presence and the ability to communicate complex safety strategies to diverse audiences.
Ready to make a difference?
Together, we'll create a healthier, brighter future for all. Apply today to help us shape the future of patient safety in the GCC.
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.
