Senior Manager Regulatory Affairs - Systems & Software

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.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of pathology within a market-leading organization with a strong pipeline of innovative instruments, software, and digital solutions. As a Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager, you will be a strategic regulatory partner to cross-functional teams, influencing key decisions from early development through global market access and lifecycle management. You will have the opportunity to navigate complex and evolving regulatory areas—including integrated instrument systems, software, cybersecurity, automation, connectivity, and digital technologies—while helping translate innovation into regulatory strategies that enable successful product development and commercialization.

This role offers significant visibility, autonomy, and opportunity to influence, making it ideal for an experienced regulatory professional who enjoys solving complex problems, shaping strategy, and seeing their work directly contribute to the future of pathology and patient care.

The Opportunity

• Regulatory document and submission compilation:
  Oversees the development of submission/product registration dossiers of the most complex products/programs. Develops and manages comprehensive global regulatory submissions and registration plans. Mentors more junior team members in this area.

• External interface management:
  Leads external complex initiatives including the collaboration with key stakeholders. Cultivates and utilizes external relationships that significantly influence the current and future direction for Roche and our products. Challenges and resolves complex issues and overcomes organizational barriers. Develops/maintains health authority relationships and actively shapes the regulatory environment. Has the ability to represent Roche in audits and other complex stakeholder negotiations.
  
  Ability to shift the perspectives of key stakeholders to achieve a specified goal. Builds common ground and alignment even if initial positions were far apart. Negotiates to maximize value for Roche and stakeholders so we have biggest impact for customers and patients.

• Regulatory knowledge and strategy:
  Lead the organization adapt to evolving regulatory environment and requirements. Experience in solving complex, critical health authority issues or equivalent understanding of external environmental changes, precedents, to navigate complex situations and influence strategies and decision making. Ability to interpret and apply understanding of the regulators' thinking to projects and apply strategies to the different needs of different regions without significant guidance.
  
  Proactively creates unique/innovative regulatory strategies and influencing approaches to avoid regulatory obstacles and accelerate world wide approvals.

• Stakeholder management and influencing:
  Leads complex initiatives including collaboration with key stakeholders. Cultivates and utilizes relationships that significantly influence the current and future direction for Roche and our products. Challenges and resolves complex issues and overcomes organizational barriers.

• Decision making:
  Has courage to make decisions even outside of scope/comfort zone. Proactively initiates activities independently and initiates interactions across departments as applicable.…