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A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche. 

We advance science so that we all have more time with the people we love. At Roche, we thrive to deliver more benefits to our patients as part of our 10-year Pharma vision. An integral part to achieving this vision is to deliver new and innovative data analytics solutions to our scientists across Pharma Technical Operations (PT). To do so, we have formed a new organization called PT Digital and Operational Excellence (PTE) with the aspiration to build industry-leading digital and lean operations across functions and our entire manufacturing footprint.

PTE is the organization that catalyzes global development and execution of PT’s Digital and Operational Excellence strategy to enable PT to realize our performance promises. We build a strong cross-functional and inclusive community, put the power of data into the hands of our people, further develop the Lean and Digital skills across PT, and scale up our Digital and Advanced Analytics solutions, for the benefit of our colleagues and patients.

This role is responsible for driving the strategic Quality digital technology roadmap through the identification and delivery of key digital initiatives and use cases. As the Senior Digital Strategy Delivery Lead you will take the role of an Agile Product Owner (PO) to partner with customers across PT functions to architect the planning (e.g. diagnose), execution (e.g. design & build), and sustainment of digital solutions to achieve the PT Quality Digital Aspirations.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Digital Transformation: Contribute to the digital Quality vision and architect key strategic digital initiatives as a translator between business needs and technical roles

Impact: Define impact aspirations (e.g. value assessments, business cases) and enable significant improvements in quality management processes through innovative digital solutions, confirmed through the measurement of key business metrics.

Scalability: Utilize your broad Quality end to end Business understanding to perform detailed requirement analyses with the team, with a strong focus on network scalability.

Prioritization and Team Setup: Prioritize use cases and act as product owner to implement key digital initiatives. Coach teams on best practices, agile methodologies, and ensure full impact capture. Lead cross-functional teams with digital experts across multiple sites.

Compliance and Risk Management: Facilitating compliant solutions for data and digital products in the GxP environment. Identify potential risks associated with digital quality initiatives and develop strategies to mitigate these risks.

Innovation and Improvement: Continuously explore and assess emerging digital technologies and industry trends. Drive innovation and process improvements within the Quality domain to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Capability and Community Building: Coordinate the development of essential skills and foster a digital community focused on value realization, e.g. through facilitating OCM activities. Act as a mentor and leader within the product management team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and collaboration.

Other duties: Support process improvement, portfolio management, data management, workforce strategy, product delivery, support strategy, partnership and collaboration with IT, PTx functions and externals

Do you bring 10+ years of experience in architecting and implementing digital transformations, preferably in the pharma industry and are looking for an impactful role? We are seeking an individual with excellent knowledge of the pharma digital & data ecosystem, in-depth expertise in quality systems, information systems, tools, and techniques. This entails a good understanding of the customers’ business’ challenges, goals and operations environment.

Further competencies and qualifications

MS/PhD in Science or Engineering Field with a minimum of 15+ years of related experience

Strong experience in Quality functions with additional experience in related Technical Operations functions, e.g. Manufacturing, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Strategic and analytical thinking

Demonstrate leadership skills and a history of successfully managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships in a complex organization

Solid experience as an Agile Product Owner, with exceptional team and stakeholder management, communication, and analytical skills, e.g. value assessments, running diagnose phases and delivering technology solutions embedded into the business process, Organizational Change Management (e.g. ADKAR)

Competence in risk management and compliance audits within the pharmaceutical industry, focus on results and be proactive in identifying solutions

Proficiency in English is required; German is a plus

Are you ready to apply? We want someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be an outstanding opportunity to craft the future of Roche.

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.