Squad Lead

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

Role Purpose

• As the leader for the squad team, set the vision and strategic ambition for the squad and be accountable for the delivery of Disease Area MTO/STO

• As an enterprise leader, prioritize squad outcomes and ensure resource requirements are met to align with affiliate MTO/STO and portfolio priorities.

• As country connector to work closely with DCL (Disease Commercialization Lead) and affiliate key stakeholders (ET/CL/TL) to mobilize affiliate and network resources

Role Scope

1. Set Ambition and Strategic Vision:

• Establish the squad's vision, high ambitions, and key outcomes for the squad by leveraging insights from customer facing roles and other key stakeholders across the enterprise.

• Hold overall accountability for the squad’s performance, including delivering outcomes and managing the P&L within a framework of shared responsibility.

• Lead the prioritization of disease area strategies, co-create the squad's OBP, and support financial planning  to drive long-term impact.

2. Lead and Inspire Teams:

• Collaborate with people leaders to foster squad member capability growth to deliver team shared goals and actively participate in the employee contribution cycle.

• Empower the squad team to make decisions, enable prioritization, and manage conflicts effectively to achieve ambitious outcomes, fostering a collaborative and continuous learning environment.

3. Ensure Strategic Prioritization and Resource Allocation:

• Adopt an enterprise mindset, taking into account affiliate strategies and portfolio priorities to prioritize squad outcomes.

• Ensure resource requirements are met to deliver on MTOs and STOs.

• Partner with WPO to enable effective WP execution and prioritization aligned with affiliate priorities.

• Facilitate squad resource prioritization and fluidity, ensuring alignment under the OBP cycle on a 120 days cycle.

4. Foster Partnerships and Network Engagement:

• Foster both external and internal partnerships, ensuring that clinical and non-clinical stakeholders view Roche as their preferred partner.

• Mobilize the network swiftly to address the urgent needs of key stakeholders.

• Inspire the squad team to engage and dialogue with key stakeholders to ensure organizational alignment and timely support.

• Enable cross-affiliate networking to achieve and scale team and organizational outcomes, connecting and mobilizing DA network resources to fit local needs.

5. Catalyze Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing:

• Partner with internal stakeholders to catalyze collaboration towards achieving the triple-win goal.

• Accelerate learning and sharing across squads, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications:

• Good Compliance track record. No material Compliance violation has been identified in the past 5 years. 

• Minimum 8+ years working experience in the pharma industry. 

Education:

• A bachelor degree in scientific, economic, or business related fields. An advanced degree in Life Science and/or MBA is a plus.

Working Experience:

• Experience in managing senior key stakeholders

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams 

• Experience in planning and managing resources prioritization

• Experience in leadership role (formal or informal) is preferred 

Competencies 

• A VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst and Coach) leader with a creative mind.  Unites people around a shared vision and a common purpose, inspiring them to achieve squad-aligned outcomes. Ensure individuals and teams are developing and growing in line with their passion and the needs of the organisation.  

• Enterprise thinking: Considers the organization as a whole, balances competing priorities, and aligns decisions with overarching goals, ability to make trade-offs and tough decisions. Demonstrates collective leadership with ET/CL/TL to achieve the ambitious outcome for the disease area and the affiliate.  

• Strong learning agility: Adapts quickly to new situations, seeks out learning opportunities, and embraces feedback for continuous improvement.

• Growth mindset and openness: Believes in personal and professional development, embraces challenges, and remains open to new ideas and perspectives.

• Business acumen: Understands industry dynamics, analyzes market trends, and makes informed decisions to drive business success.

• Strategic thinking: Takes a long-term view, identifies opportunities and threats, and aligns actions with organizational goals and objectives.

• Empowering teams: Delegates authority, fosters accountability, and supports team members in achieving their goals.

• Culture advocacy for psychological safety: Fosters an environment of trust, encourages open communication, and supports team members in taking risks and sharing ideas.

• Execute with Urgency –Ensure clarity of outcomes for the team so everyone is aligned on their role in delivering ambitious MTOs and STOs

Others (i.e. Travel Requirement) : Require 30% to 40% domestic travel 

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.