Business & Program Management (BPM) Leader

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Position Context & Scope

This position is designed for an energetic professional with a strong foundational track record in project execution who is looking to take a meaningful next step in their career. We are seeking candidates who excel at independently managing projects where the path to success is largely defined, yet requires skilled execution, active coordination, adaptability, adoption and value sustainment.

 In this role, your primary impact will be ensuring seamless project delivery and driving user adoption, ensuring that timelines are met and immediate outcomes are successfully embedded into business workflows. While familiarity with structural frameworks is important, your day-to-day focus will lean heavily toward rigorous, practical execution and managing the "mechanics" of delivery. 

This role offers a robust runway for long-term professional development; as you master these core outcomes, you will have a clear pathway to expand your scope, navigate increasingly ambiguous environments, and grow into broader strategic and enterprise-level responsibilities. 

We welcome applications from accomplished project and change management professionals across all leadership profiles. Recognizing our need to scale capabilities in an increasingly data-driven environment, for one of our available positions we are specifically interested in candidates who can bridge the gap between technical teams—including software engineers and data scientists—and business execution. Experience or a strong understanding of Data Science and Analytics projects, coupled with demonstrated digital curiosity and broad knowledge in areas like Generative AI and Large Language Models, will be highly valued as a critical asset for success in this role.

As Business & Program Management Leader you will 

•  Partner with the business accountable and team to drive development of a vision and strategy for the molecule-enabling work.   
• Scope, plan and execute the program/project  roadmap to ensure solutions are adopted and intended value is realized within the agreed timeframe and in an iterative manner.

• Maintain accurate plans and documentation, ensuring that risks and issues are promptly captured, tracked, and communicated.

• Prepare clear data and status updates to support decision-makers, ensuring that governance meetings are productive and based on factual progress.

• Focus on consistent application of PPD delivery standards to keep a project running smoothly.

• Contribute to and manage team processes for development of critical deliverables.

• Enable informed decision making within the team, including facilitating decision points with governance bodies. 

•  Measure project specific outcomes in collaboration with Project Lead & Sponsor. 

• Optimize team performance by enabling team norms, effective decision making, driving progress, meeting design/facilitation, simplifying processes/work

• Ensure the wider business is aware of the strategy/project and its impact, identifying risks and opportunities early. 

• Ensure that impact assessments are accurate and stakeholders are kept informed. 

• Support adoption by preparing leaders and teams through clear messaging about what's changing, why and what it means for them.

• Proactively flag potential adoption risks, ensuring the 'voice of the end-user' is represented in project decision-making. Identifies resistance at the end-user level and addresses it through clear communication. 

   

Who You Are 

• You are a talented and passionate human, inspired by our shared purpose of being key partners in co-creating and delivering the portfolio for the benefit of patients. 

• You believe in the principles of: 

• Learning and Growth: We are curious, intentional learners upgrading our knowledge and capabilities everyday. We ask for feedback and act on it. 

• Enabler: We are the network, we intentionally share knowledge/learnings across the network. We leverage and re-purpose with pride. 

• Value Creation: We share our Purpose and Vision to deliver together more innovations. 

• Enterprise Mindset: We are ecosystem citizens working towards a shared purpose. We build a culture of trust, integrity, and inclusion.

• You thrive in environments of ambiguity and collaboration where authority and accountability is distributed between all of the people involved and where advice seeking is foundational. 

• You are an effective communicator who shares information transparently and strategically. You are comfortable with working out loud and the principles of iteration and experimentation, and are an active listener. 

• You are experienced in using different Project Management, Change Management, Business Management or related tools, methodologies & approaches to drive the team’s development of a strategy and achieve the desired outcomes for a program/project/function. 

• You are results-oriented in an ambiguous environment, ensuring clarity of objectives and a clear and easily understood plan/roadmap. Drives teams toward action and impact. 

• You are a systems thinker, understanding the landscape & interconnectedness of activities within the project/program and outside in the wider business, connecting the dots and asking the right questions to clarify the project strategy or scope. 

• You are an effective communicator and able to influence and connect with key stakeholders, gaining alignment on outcomes. 

• You apply business knowledge and expertise to ensure maximum value to the company. This may include, but is not limited to, molecule development lifecycle, marketing application filings, transformational initiatives, large technology systems and business process changes, etc. 

• We are open to a wide variety of leadership profiles; however, as we look to scale our capabilities, experience or skills in data science would be a highly valued asset for one of our available positions 

At Roche/Genentech, we believe our people are key to our success in bringing novel medicines to patients, and we are fully dedicated to being a great place to work and to providing the services, tools, and the environment where everybody feels empowered and trusted and is enabled to uncover their full potential. 

 

 

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Welwyn. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

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.

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