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The PositionThe Opportunity
Are you ready to shape how safety data enters our organisation and drive strategic relationships that directly impact patient safety? As the Group Head for Safety Data Acquisition & Partnering (DA&P), you will lead a high-performing team focused on establishing strategic collaborations, ensuring compliance, and governing the vital "Front-End" pillar of Patient Safety Operations.
In this pivotal role, you will merge the oversight of external asset integrations and contractual safety arrangements with the advanced management of our upstream safety data supply chain. Championing agile working principles, you will collaborate with internal and external partners across all data sources and all therapeutic modalities to deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions and influence the adoption of next-generation automation and AI technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Drive Operational Strategy: Develop and deliver clear operational strategies that align with global safety goals and broader ambitions.
Lead & Inspire: Cultivate an agile team environment that fosters self-organisation, innovation, experimentation, and autonomous decision-making.
Manage Safety Agreements: Drive the development, negotiation, and implementation of fit-for-purpose safety agreements while facilitating the efficient integration and sharing of external data.
Support Due Diligence: Partner with internal and external customers during company and molecule acquisitions to pre-emptively address and assess contractual requirements.
Provide Strategic Guidance: Deliver expert knowledge on safety agreement strategies across diverse setups, including licensing agreements, clinical trial collaborations, and PV service providers.
Innovate Data Acquisition: Partner globally to influence how technologies like artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and automation can enhance safety data acquisition.
Govern the Data Supply Chain: Collaborate across Affiliates, Pharma, and Diagnostics to secure timely, high-quality safety data while ensuring strict compliance with global regulations.
Ensure Quality & Compliance: Maintain full oversight of Quality Management System (QMS) processes to ensure constant inspection readiness across operations.
Ensure Maintenance of the deep process expertise within the team, particularly among Business Process Owners (BPOs), ensuring this critical knowledge is connected and consistently applied across the organisation
Who You Are
You are a visionary, systems-thinking leader who thrives on connecting people, ideas, and technologies across complex matrix environments. You bring a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset and are passionate about mentoring diverse teams to unlock their full potential.
To be successful in this role, you bring:
Extensive Industry Experience: Significant experience within pharmacovigilance systems, operations, and global PV regulatory obligations.
Contractual Expertise: Proven track record in safety contract management and negotiating agreements across diverse stakeholder setups.
Agile Leadership: Demonstrated success in leading, coaching, and empowering high-performing teams in multicultural environments using agile methodologies.
Technological Fluency: A strong awareness of digital health systems and technical advancements, particularly in how AI and cognitive computing apply to data workflows.
Strategic Influencing Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive decisions without direct authority.
Academic Background: A degree in a relevant Life Science or data science discipline (MSc, PhD, or equivalent qualification strongly preferred).
Location
This position is based in Basel, Switzerland.
Relocation Assistance is not available.
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For awareness to potential candidates: We invite your application now, and would like to inform you that the formal review and progression of applications will begin once the Global Head Data Acquisition & Partnering has been confirmed.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Basel. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.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
- Significant experience in pharmacovigilance systems, operations, and global PV regulatory obligations
- Proven track record in safety contract management and negotiating safety agreements
- Demonstrated leadership coaching high-performing, multicultural teams using agile methodologies
- Awareness of digital health systems and application of AI/cognitive computing and automation to data workflows
- Exceptional communication and strategic influencing skills with senior leadership
- Degree in a relevant Life Science or data science discipline
- Advanced degree (MSc or PhD) or equivalent qualification
- Experience maintaining Quality Management System (QMS) processes and inspection readiness
- Experience supporting due diligence for company/molecule acquisitions and assessing contractual requirements
- Experience governing upstream safety data supply chain and partnering across affiliates, Pharma, and Diagnostics
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.
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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).
