Digital Strategy Delivery Lead (Regulatory & Supply Chain)

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The Position

We advance science so that we all have more time with the people we love. 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 organization that catalyzes global development and execution of PT’s Digital and Operational Excellence strategy to enable PT to realize our performance promises. We 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.

The Opportunity

This role drives the digital technology strategy by delivering key digital initiatives and use cases in the Regulatory, Supply Chain and Quality domains. As the Digital Strategy Delivery Lead you will take the role as an Agile Product Owner (PO) to partner with customers across PT functions to architect the planning (e.g. diagnose), execution (e.g. design & build), and sustainment of digital solutions to achieve the PT Digital Aspirations.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Digital Transformation: Architecting key initiatives and acting as a digital translator between business needs and technical roles by navigating across both domains seamlessly.

• Digital Strategy and Impact: Driving technology strategy and defining impact aspirations (e.g. product vision, roadmap, value assessments, business cases) as well as leading deployment of a global solution in a function or site.

• Prioritization and Team Setup: Conducting use case prioritization and assuming the Product Owner role to catalyze the implementation of key digital use cases. Coach teams that are developing and deploying digital use cases (e.g. share best practices, Agile ways of working, backlog management, sprint planning and ensure full impact capture & coordination between different initiatives). Lead cross-functional project teams with digital experts and SMEs across multiple sites and time zones.

• Compliance and Solution Shaping: Facilitating compliant solutions for data and digital products in the GxP environment.

• Partnership and Ecosystem Development: Explore and establish partnerships with technology companies, contributing to a vibrant ecosystem aligned with our strategic pillars.

• Capability and Community Building: Coordinate the development of essential skills and foster a digital community focused on value realization, e.g. through facilitating OCM activities. Act as a mentor and leader within the product management team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and collaboration.

Who you are

Do you bring several years of experience 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 digital & data ecosystem, in-depth expertise in regulatory, supply chain and quality information systems, tools, and techniques. This entails a good understanding of the customers’ business’ challenges, goals and operations environment.

Further competencies and qualifications:

• BS/MS in Science or Engineering Field with a minimum of 10+ years of related experience in digital or technology-focused organizations.

• Solid understanding of the pharmaceutical industry with previous experience in Regulatory, Quality and Supply Chain, including GxP / Computerised System Validation (CSV).

• 5+ years in leadership / Product Owner roles, with exceptional team management, communication, and analytical skills, e.g. in providing value assessments, running diagnose phases and delivering technology solutions embedded into the business process

• Experienced Agile/SAFe Product Owner with proven experience in systems/data management and informatics, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive digital innovation.

• A results-driven and proactive individual skilled in identifying solutions, leading cross-functional project teams, and managing transformation initiatives.

• Strategic and analytical thinker capable of applying lean and digital principles.

• Proficiency in English is required; German is a plus.

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.