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Head of RDT Performance and Insights
About RDT
Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.
Summary
As the Head of RDT Performance and Insights, you will act as a visionary leader for the Roche Digital Technology (RDT) function. You will be responsible for defining and executing a comprehensive data strategy, encompassing both robust data governance and the generation of actionable, predictive insights. This role requires a dynamic change agent who can lead a talented team and influence stakeholders across a global matrix organization. Your mission is to embed a data-driven culture, ensuring data is treated as a strategic asset to accelerate innovation, enhance decision-making, and drive operational excellence across RDT.
Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the overarching data and insights strategy for the RDT organization, ensuring full alignment with the Roche Group Data Strategy and RDT's core objectives.
Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop a multi-disciplinary team for data governance and individual contributors focused on insights, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Data Governance & Architecture: Establish and champion a robust data governance framework for RDT. Drive the adoption of consistent data roles (Data Stewards, Data Owners), uphold technical standards, and oversee the lifecycle of RDT Data Products.
Actionable & Predictive Insights: Engage with the RDT Lead Team for the governance of RDT's OKRs and KPIs, delivering advanced visualization and dashboards. Steer the team to generate predictive insights that enable proactive risk identification, forecasting, and strategic scenario planning for RDT leadership.
Influence & Change Management: Act as a key influencer and change agent across RDT, persuading stakeholders to embrace data stewardship and ownership. Champion a mindset of continuous improvement over maintaining the status quo.
People Leadership: Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams of data professionals.
Data Governance & Strategy: Deep expertise in creating and implementing enterprise-level data governance frameworks, data architecture, and data strategy, preferably within a large, matrixed organization.
Technical Acumen: Strong, practical knowledge of modern data and analytics technologies, including business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), data visualization, and predictive analytics concepts.
Influence & Persuasion: Exceptional ability to influence without direct authority, persuade senior stakeholders, and communicate complex data concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Visionary & Strategic Mindset: A forward-thinking and strategic mindset with a demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo, drive change, and translate a data vision into tangible business value.
Domain Knowledge: Experience in a regulated industry such as pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, or healthcare is highly preferred.
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.