Roche

Digital Manufacturing Strategy Delivery Lead

Basel Full time

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, 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 new organization that will catalyze the global development and execution of PT’s Digital and Operational Excellence strategy to enable PT to realize our performance promises. We will 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.

We aim to activate data citizenship and digital mindset, revolutionize our FAIR data ecosystem and systems landscape, re-design excellent processes, and generate transformative insights. We collaborate closely with global functions to deliver impactful value to our patients.

We in PTE work in partnership across major global business functions: PT-Quality, PT-Development, PT-Regulatory, PT-Manufacturing, establishing and implementing an overall Digital / Technology strategy and drive the delivery and scale of key data & digital solutions in support of our vision.

The Opportunity

This role is responsible for driving the digital technology strategy through the delivery of key digital initiatives and use cases. You will partner with customers across IT and PT functions to architect the planning, execution, and sustainment of digital solutions to achieve the PT Digital Aspirations.

  • Architect key strategic digital transformation initiatives, define impact aspiration and ensure scalability across global footprint

  • Conduct prioritization of use cases and initiatives, and setup teams for prioritized efforts

  • Build ecosystem of partners around strategic pillars and facilitate solution shaping process across PTx for data and digital products

  • Assume product owner role and catalyze the implementation of key digital use cases

  • Define and manage user requirements / backlog, ensure and track value delivery and coordinate the build-up of capabilities

  • Coach teams that are developing and deploying digital use cases (share best practices, agile ways of working, ensure full impact capture & coordination between different initiatives)

  • Other duties as needed to support process improvement, portfolio management, data management, workforce strategy, product delivery, support strategy, partnership and collaboration with IT, PTx and externals

Who you are

Do you bring experience (7 or more years) 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 data ecosystem, informatics systems, tools, and techniques with a focus on the customer. This entails a good understanding of the customers’ business, challenges, and goals in a manufacturing and operations environment.

  • BS/MS in Science or Engineering Field with a minimum of 15 years of related experience with 5+ years of experience with managing team(s). Excellent people, leadership, interpersonal, analytical, and written/verbal communication skills

  • Experience in systems/data management and informatics strategy development and execution

  • Focus on results and proactive in identifying solutions

  • Skilled in managing cross-functional partner relationships in a complex organization

  • Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional project teams and strategic and analytical thinking

Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!

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.