Senior Strategy and Operations Specialist

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.

This role is based within Business Strategy & Operations (BSO), which serves as the strategic backbone and operational enabler for Product Development Data Sciences (PDD). PDD brings together scientific, data, digital, and operational capabilities that enable the generation, analysis, and use of data across Roche Product Development.

The Strategy & Operations team operates as the strategic connector across PDD—partnering with senior leaders to shape strategy, translate complex priorities into actionable plans, and drive high-impact initiatives across the organization.

The Opportunity:

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to Global Heads, helping structure ambiguous challenges, evaluate choices, and translate decisions into execution.
• Design and oversee leadership forums, business reviews, strategic planning cycles, and offsites to drive accountability and follow-through.
• Direct high-priority strategic initiatives from problem definition and business case development through to cross-functional implementation and measurement.
• Synthesize complex scientific, technical, and operational information into concise, decision-ready analyses, narratives, and presentations for senior leadership.
• Help shape and deliver initiatives spanning workforce planning, operating model design, data and analytics, and AI/agentic transformation.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies, emerging risks, and operational trade-offs early, bringing recommendations to leadership before issues impact delivery.
• Champion an enterprise mindset by aligning functional needs with broader Product Development and Roche priorities to simplify ways of working.

Who You Are:

Help yourself visualize success in this role by bringing your structured problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and collaborative mindset to an inclusive global environment where your contributions drive tangible organizational change. You are energized by navigating ambiguity, enjoy asking thoughtful questions, and excel at building trusted relationships with senior leaders across diverse cultures and disciplines.

To be successful in this role, you bring:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in business, life sciences, data sciences, engineering, or another relevant field.
• More than 5 years of progressive experience in management consulting, strategy & operations, business transformation, or a related strategic role within a complex organization.
• Demonstrated ability to frame ambiguous business problems, conduct hypothesis-driven analysis, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English, with proven ability to craft clear storylines and present to executive, technical, and cross-functional audiences.
• Proven ability  and credibility to engage directly with senior stakeholders, constructively challenge assumptions, and lead cross-functional alignment.
• You are comfortable engaging directly with senior leaders, asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions constructively, and influencing without formal authority and demonstrate strong analytical judgment and can synthesize quantitative and qualitative information from multiple sources into clear insights.
• Experience working effectively and collaboratively across diverse functions, geographies, and cultures.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in a leading management or strategy consulting firm
• Experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or healthcare organizations strongly preferred
• Experience supporting pharmaceutical R&D particularly clinical development a plus
• Experience with organizational strategy, operating model design, strategic workforce planning, transformation, resource planning, or organizational effectiveness.
• Experience building business cases, performing scenario analyses, conducting external benchmarking, or developing recommendations for senior leadership.

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.