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 PositionWho We Are
At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients' lives, and we are bold in both decision and action — we believe that good business means a better world. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
The OpportunityYou will be a high-impact, tactical resource who strengthens execution discipline and stabilizes delivery where it matters most.
Think of it as a SWAT capability: you deploy into areas where delivery risks, backlog instability, or coordination gaps threaten outcomes. You provide hands-on operational enablement and rapid stabilization — stepping in during critical phases, absorbing chaos, and returning teams to a predictable state so they can refocus on value creation.
You won't own long-term delivery decisions or product roadmaps. Your impact comes from making the system around the teams work better — coaching, unblocking, and building the muscle for sustainable operational health. You are an Accelerating Scale operating model champion!
What You'll DoStabilize delivery under pressureDeploy into initiatives experiencing execution risks or significant delays to provide immediate structure and predictability.
Step into complex environments with severe friction: absorb operational chaos, facilitate root-cause resolution, and clear structural blockers.
Ensure recovery progress and remaining risks are clearly visible to stakeholders without adding friction to the teams you support.
Help teams shift focus from shipping features on a timeline (time-to-market) to achieving measurable business results (time-to-money).
Conduct deep-dive assessments of operational health and coach leaders, Product Managers, and teams on effective scoping and prioritization.
Guide teams in slicing complex initiatives into actionable increments to ensure smooth delivery and early value realization.
Coach teams in real-time on dependency management and prioritization discipline during high-pressure periods.
Ensure adherence to the Accelerating Scale operating model, not through enforcement, but through practical enablement that teams actually adopt.
Help teams conduct healthy retrospectives and post-mortems focused on learning, not failure — keeping the environment safe for the risks innovation requires.
Capture learnings from tactical deployments to identify enterprise-level friction points — funding model issues, tooling gaps, coordination breakdowns.
Feed insights back to RIS Business Operations and Portfolio leadership for structural resolution.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of operational practices across the chapter.
7+ years in Diagnostics, Life Sciences, or related fields in project management, operational excellence, agile coaching, or related functions.
Scientific, engineering, or business background with a bias for action.
Experience stabilizing delivery in complex, high-pressure environments — you've been the person who walks into the room and brings clarity.
Strong coaching instincts: you develop capability, not dependency.
Deep understanding of agile, SAFe, or hybrid delivery frameworks — not as dogma, but as practical tools.
Analytical and systemic thinker: you see the patterns behind the symptoms.
Comfortable working across organizational levels — from team-level coaching to executive-level reporting.
Working knowledge of Jira, MS-Office, G-Suite. Familiarity with Planisware, Orion, or similar portfolio tools is a plus.
Fluent in English (verbal and written).
Willingness to travel 10–25%.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. 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
- 7+ years of experience in Diagnostics, Life Sciences, project management, operational excellence, agile coaching, or related functions
- Scientific, engineering, or business background
- Experience stabilizing delivery in complex, high-pressure environments
- Strong coaching skills focused on developing team capability
- Deep understanding of Agile, SAFe, or hybrid delivery frameworks
- Analytical and systemic thinking skills
- Ability to work across organizational levels, from teams to executives
- Working knowledge of Jira, Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace
- Fluent English, verbal and written
- Willingness to travel 10–25%
- Familiarity with Planisware, Orion, or similar portfolio tools
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).
