Programme Lead, Healthcare, Healthcare Management

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We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world.

That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigour, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.

Our North Star is to increase R&D Productivity and Patient Centricity. This is supported by our CO Strategy to deliver value for pRED CO, pRED BHAGs and our portfolio. We aspire to be a leading edge Clinical Operations organisation that drives innovative patient-centric approaches in study design and execution, utilizes advanced analytics to drive data‑driven decisions, and embeds innovative technologies into our ways of working to improve productivity delivery of programs and studies.

We strive to create a workplace where team members own their own development and learning and are empowered to create and innovate.

As a Programme Lead (PL) at Roche, you will lead alignment of global operational strategies at the program (molecule) level and be a core member of the Project Team (PT) and Clinical Expert Team (CET), to ensure operational excellence in planning and execution of clinical programs in early development.

• DRIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT by contributing to the strategic development plans throughout the life cycle of a molecule from an operational perspective (e.g. clinical study scenarios, global operational feasibility, timelines and budget forecasts, integration of patient’s voice).
• REALIZE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES by supporting, delegating and empowering study teams to drive execution and delivery of studies in accordance with new ways of working, time, cost and quality commitments and proactively communicating deviance from these parameters to relevant stakeholders.
• LEAD THROUGH AMBIGUITY by actively engaging with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. DTAs, Global Patient Partnership, Late stage Development, Clinical Pharmacology, Regulatory, KOLs) and ensuring alignment on the program in a complex and rapidly changing environment.
• MAINTAIN PROGRAM CONSISTENCY by keeping global program oversight and ensuring cross functional alignment of study objectives with the overall program goals.
• FURTHER THE PROGRAM AND FUNCTION by seeking out and leveraging learnings, best practices and investigating novel approaches to develop and/or optimise new processes and resources in pRED.

In Clinical Operations Mindset and behaviour is as important to us as skills and capabilities

• Connect with the bigger picture, prioritize Roche, pRED or wider team over Function and individual, apply enterprise view.
• Collaborative and creative mindset, ability to partner inside and outside Roche.

• Follow a logic of incrementally improving approaches and solutions (80/20 approach where applicable/ Minimal Viable Products/ iterate).
• Stand in the shoes of stakeholders and able to build strong customer relationships.
• Ability to cope with uncertainty and manage ambiguity.

• Take ownership and accountability.
• Empower people to contribute according to their skills, capacity and interest.
• Decisions are made by the most appropriate person on the topic.
• Foster a speak‑up culture.

• Give,…