Portfolio Operations, Governance and Integration Lead

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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 Global Data Digital & AI (GDDA) organization plays a central role in Roche Pharma Commercials digital and AI ecosystem. GDDA sets the enterprise digital strategy translates commercial objectives into a coordinated portfolio of investments and defines the standards and operating model that enable scalable execution across programs and products. By connecting strategy portfolio standards programs and products GDDA ensures that data digital and AI capabilities are delivered as scalable enterprise solutions that drive adoption and improve outcomes for patients healthcare providers and the broader healthcare ecosystem.

The Portfolio Governance & Integration Lead is the cross-organizational coordination and governance lead for GDDAs digital portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Digital Portfolio Management & Operations this role ensures that portfolio priorities decisions and trade-offs are aligned across the organizations GDDA depends on including Pharma International (PI) Global Product Strategy (GPS) / US Commercial Medical & Government Affairs (CMG) Roche Digital Technology (RDT) and Data Digital Analytics (DDA) and that decisions made in portfolio forums translate into clear actions owners and follow-through.

This role owns the interfaces and governance mechanisms that make portfolio decisions executable. It manages the relationships cadences decision logs escalation paths and cross-functional alignment required to keep portfolio priorities moving through a complex matrix. The role requires strong operational discipline stakeholder judgment and the ability to influence without direct authority.

• Act as GDDAs primary operating interface for portfolio-related coordination with PI GPS / US CMG RDT and DDA.

• Maintain active relationships with partner organizations to understand priorities constraints dependencies and decision needs that affect GDDAs portfolio.

• Ensure partner inputs are gathered structured and brought into GDDAs portfolio planning and governance processes at the right time.

• Identify where partner priorities timelines resources or standards create dependencies or conflicts that need active coordination.

• Represent GDDAs portfolio perspective in cross-organizational forums ensuring consistent messaging on priorities constraints and decision rationale.

• Maintain governance cadences and artifacts that support portfolio decision-making including meeting rhythms decision logs escalation pathways and status reporting templates ensuring the infrastructure for transparent investment oversight is consistently in place.

• Run the operating mechanics of portfolio governance including meeting cadences agendas pre-reads decision logs action trackers escalation pathways and follow-up routines.

• Ensure portfolio decisions are documented with clear owners actions timelines and implications across GDDA and partner organizations.

• Track follow-through on commitments made in governance forums and escalate unresolved items when decisions are not landing.

• Maintain the governance infrastructure required for transparent investment oversight and cross-functional accountability.

• Ensure decisions made within GDDA are translated into execution expectations across PI GPS / US CMG RDT DDA and other partner teams.

• Partner with the Portfolio Planning Lead to connect governance outputs and stakeholder commitments back into the integrated portfolio view.

• Support cross-product and cross-organization integration by identifying where timing ownership standards or capacity issues require active coordination.

• Help maintain a city map of digital activity across GDDAs ecosystem by ensuring partner activities governance decisions and execution dependencies are visible and connected.

• 8 years of experience in portfolio operations governance program management or cross-functional coordination roles within a digital tech or pharma/life sciences organization.

• Demonstrated experience acting as an interface or relationship lead across multiple organizational stakeholders with a track record of maintaining alignment and driving follow-through without direct authority.

• Strong understanding of portfolio governance practices including decision-making processes escalation frameworks and the artifacts that support structured portfolio oversight.

• Expertise in curating and maintaining project management tool (e.g. Planview/Power BI/Smartsheets) .

• Proven ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity across matrixed organizations balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders while keeping portfolio priorities clear and moving.

• Strong organizational discipline able to maintain structured coordination mechanisms documentation and follow-through across a wide set of interfaces simultaneously.

• Clear and confident communicator able to represent GDDAs portfolio perspective credibly in cross-organizational forums and translate complex portfolio dynamics into concise actionable updates.

• Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) or equivalent experience in a portfolio management governance or cross-functional operations context.

• Prior experience in a pharma or large-scale tech company in a role focused on governance stakeholder integration or portfolio coordination across multiple business units.

• Familiarity with digital product portfolio environments and the organizational dynamics between commercial technology (RDT) and business functions.

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