Associate Group Director, Quantitative Safety Sciences

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At Roche, our Global Product Development Safety & Risk Management (PDS) department aims to enhance healthcare for patients by elucidating and communicating the safety profile of Roche medicines to optimise their benefit-risk profile.

The Associate Group Director (AGD) for Quantitative Safety Sciences (QSS) provides line leadership to a multidisciplinary team spanning Data Science (including AI/ML), Pharmacoepidemiology, and Pharmacovigilance (PV) Literature. Supporting assets across all Roche life cycles, the AGD guides the team in establishing data-driven analysis strategies, model-based insights, and literature evidence. These efforts support regulatory deliverables (such as PBRER, DSUR, and SAC) and enhance the characterisation of molecule risk profiles for Clinical Safety, PSI, and other PDS partners.

Combining deep technical expertise in quantitative data science with broad knowledge of disease area strategies, the jobholder drives cross-functional collaboration with groups like PD Data Science, pRED/gRED, and PDMA. The AGD balances team resources, recruits and develops talent, and fosters an agile, high-quality delivery culture. Additionally, the role advances innovative analytical approaches to anticipate, manage, and characterise risk across Roche’s portfolio.

Leadership behaviours Role models Roche Values and Leadership Commitments while providing effective leadership to an experienced global team of Quantitative Safety Scientists across multiple locations; sets team direction in terms of remit, emphasis, style, behaviours, and culture while driving, embedding, and supporting staff to adhere to agreed organisational models, mindsets, and new ways of working. Leads self and others to deliver impactful outcomes, supports team members’ delivery, and brings critical thinking to shape current issues and opportunities into meaningful, deliverable actions while anticipating potential risks and opportunities in the context of the role.

Focuses on implementing process improvements and adapting the team’s ways of working to achieve continually improving quality and efficiency; sets team and individual goals aligned with the Roche Safety Strategy, holding Quantitative Safety Scientists accountable for their behaviours and actions to encourage optimal mindsets for success.

Functional oversight, delivery & stakeholder relationship management Responsible for overseeing the delivery of Quantitative Safety Science—ensuring adherence to defined quality-bound processes and the highest scientific standards—utilising deliverables based on advanced data science, pharmacoepidemiology methodologies, and literature queries across Real World Data, Clinical Trial data, and literature databases while staying abreast of state-of-the-art methodologies and strategies. Provides leadership for scientific projects supported by the Quantitative Safety Science team, offering input on strategic and context information for fit-for-purpose solutions and consulting on best methodologies to leverage available data sources for smarter quantitative evidence generation in support of pharmacovigilance and safety risk management.

Establishes an internal and external connected network to anticipate…