Project Manager - Strategic Operations

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The Position

At Roche Diagnostics, we believe that project management is about being the operational backbone of innovation. As a Global Project Manager (GPM), you will be a catalyst for redefining how we deliver impactful diagnostic solutions. We are evolving this role into a strategic orchestration function, where the focus is on enabling value, ensuring end-to-end traceability, and driving operational excellence at a systemic level.

We are looking for operational architects who can challenge the status quo. By taking ownership of the links between strategy and execution, connecting cross-functional teams, and building a "single source of truth," you will help elevate the GPM role into a servant-leader position that ensures teams have the space and focus required to innovate.

Your Challenges
Your mission is to move beyond traditional task-tracking and actively shape the operational health of our global portfolios. Key challenges include:

• Operational Orchestration: Act as a strategic partner ensuring vertical traceability—ensuring that high-level goals are clearly connected to execution units to enable autonomous, high-quality decisions.

• Systemic Flow & Friction Reduction: Proactively identify and resolve structural bottlenecks. You will act as a servant-leader, absorbing operational overhead and administrative friction to protect the core delivery teams.

• Single Source of Truth: Guarantee reliable, consolidated data for tracking investments, capacity, and risks. You will move the organization toward predictive steering rather than reactive reporting.

• Integrated Operating Excellence: Drive the organic adoption of standardized frameworks (Quality, Regulatory, and Methodology) into daily workflows, ensuring compliance is "built-in" rather than an after-the-fact exercise.

• Cross-Domain Connectivity: Facilitate high-level Risk and Opportunity management (ROMA) and coordinate critical integration points between different lifecycles to ensure organizational coherence.

​Who You Are

We need systems-thinkers who are obsessed with efficiency and data integrity.

• Experience: 3+ years leading complex operational frameworks or portfolios in Biotech/Tech. You are comfortable navigating highly regulated environments.

• Expertise: Mastery of the "Ops Stack" (JIRA, Smartsheet, Monday.com, Aha!) and modern frameworks (SAFe, Lean, or Systems Thinking).

• Strategic Impact: Proven ability to translate complex strategy into clear operational execution plans.

• Mindset: A fierce advocate for team autonomy who views "operations" as a product that needs to be optimized for the user.

Are you a Project Manager who is tired of chasing status updates? Do you believe that the best leaders don't just "check boxes"—they build the systems that make work flow?

At Roche Diagnostics, we are transforming the Global Project Manager role. We are moving away from administrative reporting and toward Operational Intelligence. We are looking for the "Engineers of Value"—people who can connect the dots between high-level strategy and the technical teams delivering life-saving solutions.

In this role, you will be the "Operational Pilot" for our most critical Lifecycles:

• You will build the Single Source of Truth: No more fragmented data. You will ensure that strategy and execution are perfectly aligned in our tools and our minds.

• You will kill friction: Your job is to shield teams from bureaucracy. If there is a bottleneck in the system, you find it and fix it before the teams even feel it.

• You will drive Predictive Steering: Use data to look ahead. You will help leadership make decisions based on flow, capacity, and real-time risk, not on what happened last month.

Why join us? You will be part of a global team that values servant-leadership over command-and-control. Whether you are a seasoned expert or a hungry talent , if you want to move from "Managing Projects" to "Orchestrating Value," this is your place.

Location: Sant Cugat (Barcelona Hub). The Mission: Transforming Healthcare. The Role: Re-imagining Operations.

Apply today and become the operational backbone of the future of Diagnostics.

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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