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The Position

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.

Global Procurement (GP) is transforming to build new capabilities and create an agile organization that will deliver on our vision to “accelerate Roche’s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships''.

The Delivery capability covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, content strategy definition and execution.

This position is part of the Digital & Tech (IT Procurement) network leadership team reporting into the Head of Procurement Delivery - Digital & Tech.

As the Procurement Delivery Lead - Digital & Tech (IT External Workforce & Services), you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus to the Procurement Delivery capability area such as team vision, capability development and strategic Delivery prioritization (in line with functional objectives and business needs).

Thanks to your collaborative and influencing skills, you partner with internal stakeholders (e.g. Informatics Vendor Management Team, other Procurement Teams) to align on needs, identify opportunities, define goals and advance priorities. You influence decision making and remove barriers to ensure delivery of high quality customer oriented sourcing and spend management strategies.

Your key responsibilities include:

The Procurement Delivery Lead - Digital & Tech (IT External Workforce & Services) will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, including but not limited to:

• Act as a Delivery domain lead providing thought leadership, advice, and know-how on delivery capability topics, strategies, and best practices.

• Developer overseeing, improving and driving delivery of sourcing, category and supplier related strategies as well as coaching team members.

• Directly manage and be accountable for the performance of teams of Sr. Procurement Delivery Managers and Procurement Delivery Managers.

• Your successful performance depends on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including curiosity, passion, an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking and inclusive collaboration.

You bring the following skills, mindset, and behavior

Skills

This is a role for highly experienced experts only and you need to have 15+ years experience within IT workforce sourcing and procurement ideally both from working in a large scale IT Procurement and/or IT Vendor Management function.

You hold a university degree, with a business or life science degree preferable and you have worked ideally in a matrix organization as well as demonstrated success in building and cultivating management of global medium to large teams (>10-15).

In addition, you have:

• Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of strategic IT workforce sourcing and end-to-end operationalization

• Demonstrated excellent leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and influencing skills.

• Deep expert knowledge and experience in the IT category area (IT External Workforce including large scale Managed Services, Staff Augmentation)

• Experience in project management including change management and process improvement with direct experience in delivering complex organizational change projects.

• Business level fluency in English

Mindset and Behaviors

• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration.

• You are action oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.

• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

• You work with colleagues across procurement, business and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more .

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.