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The Position

A healthier future. Its what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. Thats what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity

Pharma Technical Technology (PTT) in Pharma Technical Operations (PT) ensures seamless industrialization and robust technical product management focusing on safety maintenance performance optimization and scalability.

Roches global Manufacturing Science and Technology (gMSAT) oversees commercial products new technologies standardization and risk mitigation organized by product type and operational teams.

The Technical Product Steward Group Lead reporting to the Head of global MSAT ensures seamless industrialization and technical product health from manufacturability to divestment. This role leads a team of technical product stewards to deliver improvements manage a strategic roadmap and maintain product quality and reliability. Responsibilities include providing leadership managing resources and representing the portfolio in key technical forums and senior interactions. The Group Lead is also part of PTTs extended leadership team driving departmental strategy.

• Leads a global team of senior technical product stewards and matrix leaders to oversee and execute technical industrialization and product health activities from launch to divestment. Ensures team alignment with the One Pharma Strategy PT promises and PTT/PT outcomes
• Identifies and manages portfoliolevel tech transfer risks and mitigation strategies. Oversees of master plans for DS or DP based on technical roadmaps and improvement opportunities ensuring alignment across the product portfolio to deliver global technical initiatives
• Establishes a robust product performance ecosystem leveraging advanced data analytics. Interfaces proactively with Quality assurance to meet quality milestones and escalates significant quality issues and risks to the appropriate leadership teams
• Oversees portfoliolevel delivery of root cause analysis and complaints reports. Assesses and deploys corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) as required to ensure ongoing product and process improvement
• Ensures SHE checkpoints are conducted and integrated across the portfolio to enhance product process and technology health and sustainability including incorporating digital advancements
• Provides Global MSAT representation in governance committees and decisionmaking bodies across Technical Operations. Interfaces with gMSAT PTT teams Capability Teams and other governance bodies as required
• Responsible for the coaching development and engagement of a global technical team of senior technical product stewards. Supports talent flow across gMSAT and PTT teams in line with individual development plans and strategic workforce planning

Who you are

• Holds an advanced degree in a scientific discipline with at least 12 years of relevant industrial experience in platformspecific process development or manufacturing operations (e.g. DS Bio DP SM)
• Demonstrates significant senior people leadership experience leveraging advanced VACC leadership skills to effectively manage and develop teams
• Proven expertise in product technology industrialization for either small or large molecules. Combines strategic clarity with innovative and coaching capabilities aligning with Roches leadership model
• Outstanding communicator with the ability to build connections encourage feedback and foster a collaborative environment. Committed to creating an inclusive environment where team members feel safe valued and empowered
• Established recognition in industry forums and with key suppliers enhancing external network relations. Travel requirement is less than 10

Are you ready to apply We want someone who thinks beyond the job offered someone who knows that this position can be an outstanding opportunity to craft the future of Roche.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 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 lifechanging healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Lets build a healthier future together.