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Team Lead Engineering Submission Data and Content Generation & Reuse
As a Team Lead Engineering Submission Data and Content Generation & Reuse (Engineering Manager), you will focus on capabilities development of your team members that align with the function’s vision. You will encourage your team to self-define their career journey and seek ways to enable development opportunities in the direction of that journey. By removing roadblocks and setting focus on performance management, you ensure your team develops with the right skills, healthy dynamics, and a sustainable pace.
Description of the area
Submission Document Generation and Structured Content Management: This unit focuses on modernizing the creation and management of regulatory submission document content. It develops and deploys platforms for structured content management, enabling the reuse of approved components across documents. This group also pioneers the use of agentic AI to assist in generating, reviewing, and assembling complex submission documents and its reuse across the entire clinical development valuestream, aiming to improve quality and reduce authoring timelines. This unit is also responsible to identify synergies and develop common content models, access clinical development and harmonize use of common model and architecture across multiple different functional areas (Clinical development, Market Access, Pharma Technical Regulatory etc). This position serves as a key strategic liaison and a primary communication channel between the dedicated business function and the RDT organization. It is critical in ensuring alignment of technology solutions with business needs, and responsible for co-creating and managing the technology strategy and portfolio to drive business outcomes.
The Opportunity
In this role, you will lead a high-performing engineering team to deliver innovative solutions that revolutionize how we handle regulatory data:
Empower Team Growth: You will lead the capability development of your team, enabling members to self-define and achieve their unique career journeys.
Drive Strategic Delivery: You will co-create the Product and Service Roadmap from a technical perspective, ensuring end-to-end delivery of high-quality features.
Foster a Healthy Culture: You will cultivate a sustainable work pace and healthy team dynamics, prioritizing psychological safety and open communication.
Remove Technical Roadblocks: You will actively identify and eliminate impediments to ensure a smooth flow of development and maintain team morale.
Liaise with Stakeholders: You will act as a primary communication channel between business functions and RDT to align technology with business needs.
Optimize Performance: You will define success metrics and translate data into actionable insights to improve delivery efficiency and quality.
Manage Financial Resources: You will oversee the team's budget, including headcount and vendor contracts, while supporting business cases for new initiatives.
Champion Innovation: You will pioneer the use of agentic AI and structured content management to modernize regulatory submission workflows.
Who you are
We are looking for a visionary leader who combines technical depth with a passion for people development:
Proven Leader: You possess 5+ years of experience in people leadership or program management, with a track record of building high-performing teams.
Industry Expert: You bring 2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry.
Formally Qualified: You hold a Bachelor or advanced degree with a specification in Business or IT.
Agile Mindset: You exhibit a lean and agile mindset with a deep understanding of software development or service delivery methodologies.
Servant Leader: You demonstrate servant and creative leadership (VACC) behaviors, empowering individuals to act autonomously.
Strategic Architect: You understand solution and process architecture and can create clarity regarding team outcomes in complex environments.
Domain Specialist: You have a deep understanding of regulatory submission data and document artifacts for the major health authorities (FDA, MHRA, EMA) and experience implementing structured data and content automation solutions.
Ready to bring your unique qualities to Roche and make an impact? Apply now and join us in our mission to shape the future of healthcare!
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This position also offers an attractive benefits package.
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This job is posted in multiple locations. If you're applying for the role in an alternative location where pay transparency regulations apply, the Talent Acquisition Partner will share the local pay information with you ahead of any business interview.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.
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