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 PositionOperational Excellence Partner in PTD is a strategic performance enabler who connects Development, Clinical Manufacturing & Quality, Supply, Planning, and Distribution across the E2E flow. You bring clarity to complexity, make performance visible, and move the organization through strong leadership, data, and pragmatic execution.
As an Operational Excellence Partner, you will play a pivotal role in driving measurable improvements and fostering transformation across functions and regions. Operating at a Global Grade SE7 level, you will serve as a principal leader and connector to scale impactful solutions and instill a strong Lean culture throughout the organization.
The OpportunityDrives measurable improvements in lead times, delivery reliability, and pipeline acceleration while enhancing transparency and alignment across complex, global value streams.
Enables faster, more reliable execution through structured prioritization, focus, and scaling impactful solutions across the organization.
Serves as a principal leader for LPS standards and Lean methodologies, ensuring their consistent application, continuous enhancement, and coaching others on advanced techniques.
Influences and guides leaders to practice and embody Lean leadership behaviors while acting as a connector across functions, regions, and leadership layers to align teams without formal authority.
Champions the continuous improvement process, drives end-to-end performance improvement, and enables value stream thinking and performance steering across the organization.
Actively contributes to strategic digital transformation initiatives, conducts comprehensive strategic gap analyses, and supports the scale-out of improvements integrated with digital tools.
Utilizes structured change management approaches to ensure adoption and sustainability, with a willingness to travel (~20–30% regional EU travel and 10% international travel).
You possess a strong track record in Operational Excellence / Lean in complex environments alongside experience in strategic consulting and/or leading transformation initiatives.
You bring a solid background in business functions such as R&D, Product Development, Chemical Development, or Operations (Supply/Manufacturing).
You have a proven ability to drive cross-functional performance improvements and experience with digital/AI-enabled initiatives and scaling solutions.
You demonstrate strong leadership, coaching, and influencing skills within matrix organizations.
You maintain an analytical, structured, and execution-focused mindset.
Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!
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
- Proven track record in Operational Excellence / Lean in complex environments
- Experience in strategic consulting and/or leading large transformation initiatives
- Background in R&D, Product Development, Chemical Development, or Operations (Supply/Manufacturing)
- Experience driving cross-functional performance improvements across global value streams
- Experience with digital/AI-enabled initiatives and scaling digital solutions
- Strong leadership, coaching, and influencing skills within matrix organizations
- Analytical, structured, and execution-focused mindset
- Familiarity with LPS standards, Lean methodologies, and advanced Lean techniques
- Experience using structured change management approaches to ensure adoption and sustainability
- Willingness to travel approximately 20-30% regionally (EU) and ~10% internationally
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).
