Business Manager, 2 years temporary position

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

In Roche’s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED ), we make transformative medicines for patients in order to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs. At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicines. Together, we create a culture defined by curiosity, responsibility and humility, where our talented people are empowered and inspired to bring forward extraordinary life-changing innovation at speed.

360 Labs Initiative at a Glance

The 360 Labs are a new capability that is currently being built up within the Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED ). The primary mission of this effort is to provide greater access and support for the use of cutting-edge biomedical research technologies by scientists across our discovery portfolio.

The 360 Labs will deliver core scientific technologies, expertise and enabling activities, as well as facilitate knowledge sharing in close collaboration with our therapeutic areas and functions. Our ambition is to bring to life a thriving workplace environment, where your collaborative mindset is as valued as your professional expertise. Our goal is to act as an highly integrated ecosystem, supporting research and development, working collaboratively, and focused on fostering excellence and sustainability. Together, these efforts will serve to increase the speed, enhance the robustness and improve the sustainability of our exploratory research and early discovery activities.

Job Mission and Impact

Your mission will be to enable the 360 Labs team with business support to achieve its goals and lead some key cross-platform initiatives such as, but not limited to, evaluating current practices, conceptualizing new systems and processes and working collaboratively with key stakeholders from across the 360 Labs and the Roche environment to implement new solutions. A can-do attitude and a flexible, growth mindset are critical to success in this role. Your focus will be to generate an impact on the operational efficiency and productivity of the 360 Labs with a sense of urgency.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Creating project plans for key activities related to the seamless progression of the 360 Labs initiative, in close collaboration with various business stakeholders, together with proactively controlling project scope, risks and issues;

• Effectively leading and managing project and team meetings, documenting actions and decisions and tracking the progress of deliverables against baseline schedule;

• Improve process efficiency and boost business performance by using proven methodologies to identify and fix inefficiencies and streamline operational processes.

Your Profile

• You have a BS or MS degree in Science, Engineering or Business with 5 to 10 years of business management or project management experience in a scientific research environment, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry, with optional project management certification such as PMP;

• You have experience in managing both scientific- and IT- related projects in a research environment with a high-degree of digital savviness, with exceptional skills in business- and data analytics;

• You have a customer and team-centric mindset focused on delivering high-quality results with a sense of urgency and have demonstrated effectiveness in building collaborative relationships and leading in a matrix environment without authority.

In addition to your scientific expertise and critical technical skills, we are looking for candidates who are:

• Curious with a growth mindset, resourceful and flexible in problem-solving, have excellent organizational skills, and can think outside the box and have a demonstrated ability to implement new ideas in a fast-paced research environment;

• Excellent communicators with a high fluency in English, a desire to continuously build a personal network and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, inclusive environment that gives you full accountability for your own contributions and development.

Your Location

This position is based in Basel.

Our commitment

Roche commits to recognizing talent and aptitude. We prioritize encouraging and supporting our employees on their personal journeys by providing a safe, creative space to help them reflect, make decisions and grow in their career.

We are confident that we find the most innovative solutions by gaining different perspectives, asking and answering hard questions, and challenging the status quo. Roche embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious yet enthusiastic way; we are devoted to building a team that represents a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.