Sites Network Strategy Lead

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Sites Network Strategy Lead

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.

The Opportunity:

Roche’s Ten-Year Ambitions translate at our sites into ambitious innovation, sustainability goals, and market leading cost effectiveness. The Sites Network shapes Roche’s ecosystem of infrastructure & integrated services to enable best work outcomes.

With more than 3,500 highly skilled colleagues, our function offers over 200 capabilities and even more services at 10 multi-functional / cross-divisional sites in Switzerland, Germany and the U.S., touching more than half of Roche's employees and enabling them to do their best work - for patients and society.

As Sites Network Strategy Lead, you will report to the Head of Business Operations & Strategic Planning of the Sites Network, and support the Head of Sites Network and the Sites Enablement Team (SET) in shaping and implementing the overall strategic direction and operational performance, in service of our ambition.

This role provides a high impact potential and exposure with a broad range of development and collaboration opportunities in different areas of Roche.

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary professional who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about making a difference. The main responsibilities include to:

• Lead key strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects across the organisation

  • Using data-driven insights to develop strategic options, analyse trade-offs, measure progress and adjust strategies as needed

  • Architecting the path to decision making and successful implementation, anticipate/mitigate associated challenges and risks, and drive organisational change as required

• Build a strong network and broad knowledge base across the organisation to identify key business trends and opportunities, gain buy-in and strengthen communication flows

• Lead, develop and support the preparation of concise presentations that synthesise insights into briefing documents or slides to support decision-making and communication

• Own, prepare and orchestrate executive -meetings and -workshops ensuring effectiveness, overall connectedness and follow up

Who you are:

• Bachelor's Degree or above; MBA or other relevant Graduate or Postgraduate Degree preferred

• 5+ years of experience with increasing responsibility and proven track record in strategy -development, -planning & -implementation of varying scope and scale, either in consulting or in-house strategy

• Strong systems thinking and analytical skills with proven problem solving, stakeholder management, influencing skills and high integrity

• Excellence in developing concise, fact-based presentations with clear storylines tailored to different audiences with a high attention to detail and accuracy

• Good communication and presentation skills in both English and German

• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced and demanding environment that requires at times high degrees of flexibility and managing multiple priorities

The primary location for this position is Basel or Rotkreuz in Switzerland. if you are looking for your next role within a high impact team which has an enterprise wide reach, apply to find out more!

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.