Digital Strategy Delivery Lead - Business Integration and Value Delivery

Overview

At Roche, we aim to deliver more benefits to patients as part of our 10-year Pharma vision. We are building PT Digital and Operational Excellence (PTE) to create industry-leading digital and lean operations across Pharma Technical Operations and our manufacturing footprint.

The Opportunity:

PTE will catalyze the global development and execution of PT’s Digital and Operational Excellence strategy to enable PT to realize its performance promises. We will foster a cross-functional, inclusive community, empower data-driven decision making, enhance Lean and Digital skills, and scale Digital and Advanced Analytics solutions for colleagues and patients. Our goal is to activate data citizenship, strengthen the FAIR data ecosystem, re-design processes, and generate transformative insights in collaboration with global functions to deliver value to patients.

What you’ll do with PTE:
We partner across major global functions—PT-Quality, PT-Development, PT-Regulatory, PT-Manufacturing—to establish and execute a Digital/Technology strategy and to drive the delivery and scaling of key data and digital solutions in support of our vision. This role drives value realization and sustainability through key digital initiatives and use cases across sites and Business Units, partnering with customers across IT and PT to plan, execute, and sustain digital solutions aligned with the PT Digital Aspirations.

• Leads cross functional and cross site team workshops to solve complex digital and process challenges
• Identify and quantify high value processes with low to moderate investment and associated digital solutions for business case discussions
• Leverages sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions
• Lead or co-lead process improvement activities with site and global OE partners - Maps business processes, apply LEAN principles, recommends process improvements to best fit digital solutions
• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view
• Interprets internal business challenges and recommends best practices - people, process, tool use - to improve the adoption and sustained value of digital products and services
• Proactively seeks external learnings and solutions to serve as options to complex challenges
• Coaches sites and business partners to develop similar expertise and skills
• Ensure scalability across global footprint
• Facilitate solution shaping process across PTx for data and digital products
• Build ecosystem of partners around strategic pillars
• Coordinate the build-up of capabilities
• Coach teams that are developing and deploying digital use cases (share best practices, agile ways of working, ensure full impact capture & coordination between different initiatives)
• Support build-up and management of a digital community that's focused on value realization
• Other duties as needed to support data management, workforce strategy, product delivery, support strategy, partnership and collaboration with IT and other PTx functions

Do you bring experience (7 or more years) in architecting and implementing digital transformations, preferably in the pharma industry? We are seeking an individual with excellent knowledge of the pharma data ecosystem, informatics systems, tools, and techniques with a focus on the customer. This entails a good understanding of customers’ business, challenges, and goals in a manufacturing and operations environment.

• BS/MS in Science or Engineering Field with a minimum of 15 years of related experience
• 5+ years of experience with managing team(s). Excellent people, leadership, interpersonal, analytical, and written/verbal communication skills
• Experience in systems/data management and informatics strategy development and execution
• Focus on results and proactive in identifying solutions
• Skilled in managing cross-functional partner relationships in a complex organization
• Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional project teams
• Strategic and analytical thinking

Relocation funding is not available for this role.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Oceanside, CA is $131,000…