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 PositionHead of RSS Project Management & Region EMEA
The Opportunity
As the Head of Project Management, you shape and execute the global project management services strategy across Roche, leading a talented community of over 120 project managers. You combine operational excellence with strategic vision to internalize critical capabilities, optimize resource allocation, and deliver sustainable value across diverse initiatives.
- Lead a Global Organization: Inspire and guide a distributed community of 120+ project management professionals across strategic international hubs, fostering an inclusive, high-performance environment.
- Direct Regional & Functional Leadership: Lead the EMEA project management leadership team directly, while establishing overarching global governance and alignment with regional leaders across the Americas and APAC.
- Drive Strategy & Enterprise Impact: Partner with cross-functional executive partners to co-create and execute a forward-looking service portfolio that supports long-term healthcare ambitions.
- Optimize Delivery & Demand: Champion portfolio assessments, smart workload leveling, and resource allocation to meet peak demands with quality and agility.
- Cultivate Continuous Innovation: Integrate emerging industry practices, scalable delivery frameworks, and modern methodologies into everyday project execution.
- Enable People & Leadership Growth: Nurture future leadership talent through mentorship, continuous learning opportunities, and proactive development pathways.
Who You Are
You are an authentic, forward-thinking leader who thrives in dynamic global environments. You navigate complexity with clarity, empower teams to take ownership, and build trusted partnerships across diverse cultures and functions.
- Experienced Enterprise Leader: You bring 10+ years of senior leadership experience managing large, multi-layered teams—with demonstrated success in leading through other people leaders, preferably within enterprise shared services, consulting, or matrixed global organizations.
- Strategic Change & Transformation Driver: You possess a proven track record of orchestrating large-scale organizational transformations, applying strategic thinking, agility, and modern change methodologies to achieve lasting impact.
- Collaborative Communicator & Influencer: You communicate complex concepts with transparency and empathy, showing strong executive presence, negotiation, and cross-cultural mediation capabilities.
- Analytical & Solutions-Oriented: You hold an advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent practical experience) in Business Administration, Management, or a related field, coupled with sound judgment and data-informed decision-making skills.
- Global Mobility: You are open to international travel as needed to connect with distributed teams and partners.
In exchange we provide you with
- Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career.
- Excellent benefits & flexibility: competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. We also ensure flexibility, to help you find your balance: home office is a common practice (2 office days). We create the opportunity for freedom in working, where your corporate and private life coexist in harmony.
- A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. That’s what makes us Roche.
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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
- 10+ years of senior leadership experience managing large, multilayered teams
- Experience leading through other people leaders
- Experience in enterprise shared services, consulting, or matrixed global organizations
- Proven track record orchestrating large-scale organizational transformations
- Strategic thinking, agility, and modern change-management experience
- Strong executive presence, negotiation, communication, and cross-cultural mediation capabilities
- Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Business Administration, Management, or a related field
- Data-informed decision-making and sound judgment
- Willingness to travel internationally as needed
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).
