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.
The PositionLet’s build a healthier future, together.
By combining our unique strengths, we’re redefining healthcare through sustainable action and innovation. Discover what it’s like to work at Roche.
The Opportunity
This role provides strategic guidance across the organization's critical security programs and initiatives, establishing key security processes and developing enterprise-wide best practices to ensure consistency and alignment with organizational standards. The position combines hands-on oversight of high-impact projects with technical guidance for cross-functional initiatives, while maintaining quality assurance and strategic alignment across all security efforts.
Responsibilities
Accountability / Problem Solving
Leads comprehensive analysis of complex, strategic business problems across organizational boundaries, conducting root-cause analysis and eliciting stakeholder needs to influence sound decision-making and drive consensus through persuasive communication.
- Demonstrates mastery in requirements and domain knowledge, providing thought leadership on unusually complex problems with innovative solutions, leading large-scale process improvement initiatives, and guiding strategic change adaptation while ensuring deliverables align with organizational objectives.
Stakeholder Management
Identifies and analyzes complex stakeholder networks across organizational boundaries and global teams, developing comprehensive engagement and communication plans that drive consensus on strategic vision while building and maintaining strong relationships across the organization.
- Acts as a master negotiator and trusted advisor to leadership, navigating complex conflicts to achieve alignment and serving as a role model in collaboration and organizational trust-building.
Impact / Strategy
Drives significant, consistent impact across major products and domains by ensuring delivery of high-value solutions aligned with business strategy, embedding best practices, and leveraging industry trends to influence organizational strategy and foster continuous improvement.
- Leads evaluation and implementation of optimal strategic solutions and transitions across large, complex projects spanning multiple domains, managing highly ambiguous requirements holistically while ensuring traceability and alignment with broader organizational goals.
Who you are
Advanced technical proficiency in Java, JavaScript, AWS (Amazon Web Services), JWT, with comprehensive knowledge of cybersecurity technologies and enterprise systems
Deep expertise in business strategy and systems thinking to deliver holistic, enterprise-wide security solutions.
Proven ability to analyze root causes, gather requirements, and evaluate strategic solutions across large organizations.
Skilled in building trusted relationships with senior leaders, driving consensus, and guiding strategic security decisions.
Strong track record of leading large-scale process improvements, driving change, and applying emerging security trends.
Preferred
SAP Customer Data Cloud (SAPCDC)
Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.
Who we are
A 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
- Advanced technical proficiency in Java, JavaScript, AWS, and SAP Customer Data Cloud (SAPCDC).
- Comprehensive knowledge of cybersecurity technologies and enterprise systems.
- In-depth understanding of business domains, organizational strategy, and business analysis advisory or consultancy concepts.
- Expertise in root cause analysis, requirements elicitation, strategic solution evaluation, and traceability principles.
- Leadership and mentoring experience, including managing technical teams and building consensus among senior stakeholders.
- Experience driving large-scale process improvements, change management initiatives, and security thought leadership.
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).
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