Project Leader - Urinalysis & cobas ultra integrated solutions (Software, Cybersecurity)

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At Roche Diagnostics, we are driven by our vision: innovating diagnostics, shaping healthcare, and changing lives. We are excited to see this vision come to life.

Roche Diagnostic Solutions is responsible for delivering on our Diagnostics Strategy. Within this, the Core Lab business area plays a key role: we strive to expand global access to innovative diagnostics and empower our customers to improve patient outcomes across the healthcare continuum.

By increasing access and setting new standards in core laboratory diagnostics, we provide efficient, end-to-end testing systems and high medical-value solutions, leveraging the full strength of our One Roche approach.

Our Team is dedicated to transforming patients' lives. We achieve this by pushing scientific boundaries, upholding ethics, and expanding access to innovative diagnostics. We focus on delivering robust solutions that meet business and customer needs, building scalable infrastructures, and fostering collaboration in a complex multicultural environment. Our work directly supports Roche’s mission to create transformative diagnostics solutions and significantly improve patient outcomes.

As the Project Leader for Urinalysis & cobas ultra, you will act as a cross-functional leader and a member of both the cobas Ultra Leadership Team and the corresponding Life Cycle Team (LCT). In this role, you will be fully accountable for building and implementing large-scale solutions in the Urinalysis space as well as overarching projects related to software and cybersecurity across the cobas Ultra and Core Lab Ecosystem, setting clear direction for the global product development strategy from initiation through to the launch decision. You will collaborate closely with the Coagulation, Hematology, and Urinalysis team as well as with teams across the cobas ultra program and Core Lab, corresponding Functional Partners linked to LCTs, and external delivery partners to deliver comprehensive, successful solutions on time, on cost, and on quality.

• Strategic Direction & Solution Accountability: Set clear direction for the global product development strategy from initiation to launch, taking full accountability for the availability, quality, cost, success, and delivery of pre-defined milestones for our Urinalysis as well as cobas ultra integrated solutions (e.g. software, cybersecurity) 
• Cross-Functional & Partner Leadership: Guide, inspire, and mentor multidisciplinary, multisite teams and Squads, encouraging team accountability, high performance, a customer-focused mindset, and continuous learning.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Integration: Translate customer and business needs into priorities for the Project Team (PT), break down silos across networks, and resolve escalated bottlenecks and dependencies to ensure aligned delivery.
• Operational & Risk Management: Overcome operational challenges by proactively addressing risks, mitigating issues, driving alternative courses of action, and aligning development, engineering, and integration activities across internal teams and external delivery partners.
• Financial & Resource Governance: Approve and monitor the budgets, timelines, risk mitigation plans, and resources necessary to deliver defined project objectives within quality and time frameworks.
• Thought Leadership & Collaboration: Partner with other Project Leaders, Lifecycle Networks, and International Business Leaders (IBL)/Lifecycle Leaders (LCL) to address technical, regulatory, and business needs, ensuring cohesion with business-wide strategies.
• Global & Intercultural Engagement: Lead technical discussions regarding software, cybersecurity, architecture, technology solutions, and development plans with internal and external partners, with a specific focus on engaging and building trust with external OEM partners.

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.