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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.\nThe Position\nThis position is designed for an experienced professional with a demonstrated track record of both rigorous program and project execution and the change management required to drivesolution adoption within the Biotech/Pharma landscape.\nDisciplined program and project management, milestone tracking, and active execution are core to this role - as is the stakeholder alignment, change and communication strategies required to embed outcomes into sustainable, \"business as usual\" operations. Both disciplines are essential to realizing the full value of any initiative we deliver.\nIn this role, you will bridge technical, operational, and business boundaries - combining hands-on delivery expertise with change management principles to ensure initiatives hit key milestones, overcome operational friction and adoption barriers, and realize their intended business value.\nWe welcome applications from accomplished professionals with a strong background in program/project and change management - and a demonstrated ability to operate credibly across both disciplines. Recognizing our need to scale capabilities in an increasingly data-driven environment, we are specifically interested in candidates who can bridge the gap between technical teams-including software engineers and data scientists-and business execution and solution adoption. Experience or a strong understanding of Data Science and Analytics projects, coupled with demonstrated digital curiosity and broad knowledge in areas like Agentic AI, will be highly valued as a critical asset for success in this role.\nAs Business & Program Management Leader your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:\nProject Execution, Delivery and Governance\nScope, plan, and execute project roadmaps and ensure solutions are adopted to drive intended value realization within the agreed timeframe and in an iterative manner.\nEnsure consistent application of project delivery standards, managing the day-to-day \"mechanics\" of delivery, cross-functional coordination, and deliverable development.\nContribute to and manage team processes for development of critical deliverables.\nMaintain accurate plans and program/project documentation, ensuring that risks and issues are promptly captured, tracked, and communicated.\nActively capture, track, and mitigate operational, timeline, and execution risks; ensure risk registers are updated and escalations are managed promptly.\nPrepare clear data updates and progress metrics to support executive governance bodies, ensuring decision-making is grounded in accurate progress tracking.\nOptimize team performance by establishing team norms, facilitating productive decision-making, and simplifying complex cross-functional workflows.\nBusiness Adoption & Value Realization\nDesign and deploy solution adoption frameworks to ensure program/project deliverables are seamlessly embedded into daily operational workflows across impacted business units.\nConsider the \"voice of the end-user\" during planning; perform impact assessments, map user journeys, and proactively address adoption barriers or resistance.\nEstablish and monitor user proficiency, adoption rates, and value-sustainment outcomes in close partnership with Project Leads and Sponsors.\nDefine metrics and measure program/project-specific outcomes in collaboration with Project Sponsors and Leads.\nDrive adoption by preparing leaders and stakeholders throughout execution and delivery through clear messaging about what's changing, why and what it means for them. Ensure impact assessments are accurate and stakeholders are kept informed.\nCraft transparent, targeted communication plans-including leadership briefings, project newsletters, and operational updates-to articulate what is changing, why, and what it means for teams.\nEquip managers and functional leaders with the narratives, tools, and messaging required to advocate for change and coach their teams through operational transitions.\nWho You Are\nYou are a talented and passionate professional, inspired by our shared purpose of being key partners in co-creating and delivering the portfolio for the benefit of patients\n\nYou bring a solid track record of leading cross-functional delivery and embedding business/operational solutions in clinical development, medical affairs, technology\nYou have hands-on delivery experience in program or project management, and you know how to keep complex, cross-functional initiatives moving with discipline and clarity \nYou bring demonstrated experience leading change management efforts - including impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, and resistance management\nYou have strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize complex project information into clear narratives for diverse audiences - from end users navigating day-to-day change to senior leaders making governance decisions\nYou are able to influence and connect with key stakeholders, gaining alignment on outcomes; you share information transparently and strategically and are comfortable with the principles of iteration and experimentation, and are an active listener. \nYou are a systems thinker with the ability to see how individual project deliverables connect to broader organizational objectives, identifying dependencies, operational impacts and adoption risks early.\nYou thrive in ambiguous, dynamic, matrixed environments where authority and accountability are shared - leveraging active listening, direct influence, and structured planning to drive teams toward action and delivery.\nYou are results-oriented in an ambiguous environment, ensuring clarity of objectives and a clear and easily understood plan/roadmap. Drives teams toward action and impact. \nYou are a curious, intentional learner who upgrades your knowledge and capabilities every day - you ask for feedback and act on it.\nYou apply business knowledge and expertise to ensure maximum value to the company. This may include, but is not limited to, molecule development lifecycle, marketing application filings, transformational initiatives, large technology systems and business process changes, etc. \nYou are dedicated to sharing learnings across the network, reusing best practices, and building a culture of trust and inclusion.\nYou are experienced in using different Project Management, Change Management, Business Management or related tools, methodologies & approaches to drive the team’s development of a strategy and achieve the desired outcomes for a program/project/function. \nDemonstrated track record of leading and scaling Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or AI/ML initiatives would be a highly valued asset \nAt Roche/Genentech, we believe our people are key to our success in bringing novel medicines to patients, and we are fully dedicated to being a great place to work and to providing the services, tools, and the environment where everybody feels empowered and trusted and is enabled to uncover their full potential.\nWho we are\nA 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.\nLet’s build a healthier future, together.\nThe statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. 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