Operational Excellence Partner

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

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients' lives, and we are bold in both decision and action — we believe that good business means a better world. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

The Opportunity

You will be a high-impact, tactical resource who strengthens execution discipline and stabilizes delivery where it matters most.

Think of it as a SWAT capability: you deploy into areas where delivery risks, backlog instability, or coordination gaps threaten outcomes. You provide hands-on operational enablement and rapid stabilization — stepping in during critical phases, absorbing chaos, and returning teams to a predictable state so they can refocus on value creation.

You won't own long-term delivery decisions or product roadmaps. Your impact comes from making the system around the teams work better — coaching, unblocking, and building the muscle for sustainable operational health. You are an Accelerating Scale operating model champion!

What You'll Do

Stabilize delivery under pressure

• Deploy into initiatives experiencing execution risks or significant delays to provide immediate structure and predictability.

• Step into complex environments with severe friction: absorb operational chaos, facilitate root-cause resolution, and clear structural blockers.

• Ensure recovery progress and remaining risks are clearly visible to stakeholders without adding friction to the teams you support.

Coach teams toward outcomes over output

• Help teams shift focus from shipping features on a timeline (time-to-market) to achieving measurable business results (time-to-money).

• Conduct deep-dive assessments of operational health and coach leaders, Product Managers, and teams on effective scoping and prioritization.

• Guide teams in slicing complex initiatives into actionable increments to ensure smooth delivery and early value realization.

Champion the operating model

• Coach teams in real-time on dependency management and prioritization discipline during high-pressure periods.

• Ensure adherence to the Accelerating Scale operating model, not through enforcement, but through practical enablement that teams actually adopt.

• Help teams conduct healthy retrospectives and post-mortems focused on learning, not failure — keeping the environment safe for the risks innovation requires.

Surface systemic insights

• Capture learnings from tactical deployments to identify enterprise-level friction points — funding model issues, tooling gaps, coordination breakdowns.

• Feed insights back to RIS Business Operations and Portfolio leadership for structural resolution.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of operational practices across the chapter.

Who You Are

• 7+ years in Diagnostics, Life Sciences, or related fields in project management, operational excellence, agile coaching, or related functions.

• Scientific, engineering, or business background with a bias for action.

• Experience stabilizing delivery in complex, high-pressure environments — you've been the person who walks into the room and brings clarity.

• Strong coaching instincts: you develop capability, not dependency.

• Deep understanding of agile, SAFe, or hybrid delivery frameworks — not as dogma, but as practical tools.

• Analytical and systemic thinker: you see the patterns behind the symptoms.

• Comfortable working across organizational levels — from team-level coaching to executive-level reporting.

• Working knowledge of Jira, MS-Office, G-Suite. Familiarity with Planisware, Orion, or similar portfolio tools is a plus.

• Fluent in English (verbal and written).

• Willingness to travel 10–25%.

 

 

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. 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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.