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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 in the future. That’s what makes us Roche.
This Chapter Lead / Director oversees end-to-end supply chain operations for Roche Canada Pharma across the full product portfolio, ensuring a reliable, compliant, and patient-centric supply chain that delivers for every patient, every time, while safeguarding Roche Canada’s right to operate.
The Chapter Lead / Director leads and develops a high-performing team, ensuring the right capabilities, and mindset, acting as a visionary, architect, catalyst, and coach, the role fosters a proactive, high-performance culture aligned with global and local strategies, including Pharma Vision.
This position drives the strategic optimization of trade channels, enabling differentiated last-mile delivery and strengthening Roche’s position as a preferred partner to key customers. It also builds strong internal and external relationships across Roche Canada, global teams, and trade partners to ensure alignment and impact.
The Opportunity:
- People Leadership & Purposeful visionary: Lead, inspire, and develop the Logistics & Supply Chain team to deliver high performance and operational excellence across all therapeutic areas, including fostering a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and collaboration and promoting an inclusive and engaging team environment that encourages innovation and intentional improvement.
- Accountable for the end-to-end affiliate Supply Chain strategy, providing both strategic and operational direction in alignment with local and global business objectives and initiatives.
- Champion collaboration & partnership with internal & external stakeholders to deliver value across the supply chain: Partner with key leaders within the organization such as Chapter leads and V.P.s in Sales/Marketing, Finance, Quality Management, Govt. Relations and Market Access to develop mutual strategies, increase collaboration, and address operational challenges.
- Ensure Canadian patients have reliable access to Roche product: Foster alignment with all internal stakeholders on Sales & Operations planning to support global manufacturing, integrated planning to effective decision-making.
- Represent Roche as Operating committee member of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Distribution Network (CPDN), contributing to governance, strategic direction, and cross-industry collaboration to ensure an efficient, compliant, and cost-effective distribution model for delivering pharmaceutical products to the hospital network across Canada.
- Assess and interpret the pharmaceutical distribution and trading partner landscape in Canada and globally and evaluate the corresponding implications for Roche Canada and it’s portfolio.
- Safeguard the organization’s license to operate
Who you are:
- Bachelor's degree is required, MBA is preferred
- You possess over 15+ years of which 7+ years of leadership experience within the highly competitive pharmaceutical/biotechnology sector, demonstrating progress in roles
- Ability to lead, inspire, and develop high-performing teams with a focus on continuous learning, accountability, collaboration, and inclusivity
- Demonstrated experience in end-to-end supply chain strategy and operations, with ability to align decisions with both local and global business objectives
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical distribution landscape, regulatory requirements, and ability to ensure patient access to products while maintaining compliance and license to operate
- Experience in industry governance, strategic planning, and the ability to represent the organization at the executive level while evaluating market trends and implications for business strategy
Relocation benefits are not available for this position.
We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants for this role.
This posting is for an existing vacancy at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Who we areA healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA
- More than 15 years of professional experience
- At least 7 years of leadership experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology sector
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams
- Experience developing and executing end-to-end supply chain strategy and operations
- Understanding of pharmaceutical distribution landscapes and regulatory requirements
- Experience ensuring patient product access while maintaining compliance and license to operate
- Experience in industry governance and strategic planning
- Ability to represent an organization at the executive level and evaluate market trends
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
