Project Manager

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.

A healthier future. It’s 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.

That’s what makes us Roche

In this role you will be responsible for successful Project Delivery using agile or traditional project management methodology.

Your work will include but will not be limited to:

• understanding the business goal(s) and value of the project and striving to deliver the defined benefits to the organization
• leading or being part of global project teams ensuring clear roles and responsibilities and resource assignment to the project plan deliverables
• ensuring that the critical success factors of reliability, compliance, efficiency, sustainability, time to value are managed throughout the entire lifecycle of the projects
• effectively managing stakeholders through the establishment of key relationships and developing an understanding of their organizations
• generating, maintaining and tracking an accurate and realistic project plan, project risk and issue log and ensuring the project status is timely and transparent
• preparing and presenting to relevant governance meetings as required by the project methodology and good project management practice
• tracking project financials and seek governance approval when needed
• applying organizational change management practices as needed and ensuring effective project communication
• contributing to business development opportunities where appropriate

•  Be an active member of the Project Management Chapter by:
• Continuously improving the project management capabilities, service offerings and community engagement leveraging latest developments and market dynamics
• Supporting the development of training content and toolkits for our team
• Actively managing your project management upskilling
• Applying your learnings during engagements and sharing them with your RSS  colleagues

You possess the following qualifications, experience and personal attributes:

• Appropriate university degree and 5+ years of project management related work experience 
• Strong knowledge in project management fundamentals (waterfall, SCRUM and others) and related tools
• Experience in leading global/complex projects, organizing and optimizing resources and establishing clear priorities
• Ability to motivate and lead a project team or team members if required
• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated proficiency in influencing, negotiating, and effective global collaboration.  
• Ability to effectively communicate across various levels of a complex, matrix organization. Ideally exposure to an additional field related to project management, such as project change management, business consulting, methodology coaching.
• Experience in project management financials and resource management

In addition, the following skills will make you successful in your position and create the foundation for career growth at Roche:

• Customer centricity
• Collaborative ways of working
• Presentation and influencing skills
• Business acumen & systems thinking

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.