Section Lead - Data & Analytics - Data Advisory and Insights

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The Position

Mission

You will lead the Data Advisory and Insights section within the Data and Analytics (DnA) chapter in Roche Informatics. As a Section Lead you will focus on capabilities development of your section members that align with the DnA vision. You will encourage your team to self-define their career journey and seek ways to enable development opportunities in the direction of the journey. You will have an understanding of the roles within your section to provide mentorship when needed.

What you'll be working on

Expertise from the DnA Chapter will be embedded into initiatives across multiple business and foundational domains across our Roche Pharma and Dia value chain. DnA chapter members will contribute to value generation and promote cross-functional analysis and collaboration. In addition to partnering with teams across the business to develop solutions, scale and automate data pipelines, contribute to insights generation etc, chapter members are uniquely placed to connect the dots across initiatives, promote information sharing across domains and recommend re-use of data, analytics and solutions wherever possible. 

The Data Advisory and Insights section in DnA chapter focuses on capabilities helping to make informed decisions by combining data insights, tools and infrastructure, data mining, and data visualization based on best practices. It focuses on leading and driving teams that use analytics to achieve their objectives. Data Advisory and Insights brings a focus on the capability of leading and driving analytics based squads and workstreams with a deep understanding of data topics.

You will work with Product Manager(s) and main stakeholders within your area of responsibility to help prioritize and generate value and impact from insight generation activities. The job also entails fostering synergies and efficiencies through re-use across the Domains, leveraging the Chapter setup to maximize the impact of DnA to the products you are supporting. 

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT AND PARTNERING

• Understand the current and future needs of the businesses in order to develop the strategic direction of the Chapter along with chapter leadership by exploring and implementing new strategic capabilities to stay “evergreen”

• Contribute to the businesses in establishing durable teams while providing input to optimal setup and delivery of value.

• Ensure that resources are available for the demand intake process in order to meet stakeholder needs and priorities

LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE

• People Management and Coaching

  • Evaluate, promote, coach, and develop chapter members

  • Seek, evaluate and act on feedback on chapter members

• Resource and Portfolio Management

  • Co-create and maintain chapter strategy and workforce planning to define and build up the right capabilities and equip people with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence

  • It is envisioned that the Chapter Section Lead role provides significant contribution with up to 50% of the time to product teams and internal informatics priorities. 

  • Allocate talent to different roles in squads and ensure that they are deployed to value-creation opportunities

  • Monitor, analyze and improve the demand intake process to optimize effective people mobilization of both FTE and external workforce

• Capability and Practice Development

  • Foster an environment where standards and best practices are developed and shared

  • Continuously improve the chapter capabilities to enable value creation

What you’ll need to be successful

• 2+ years of people management experience and related area knowledge

  • Working experience in some data analytics capability areas (e.g., Data Product Ownership, Data Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data Management and Governance,)

  • Hands-on analytics knowledge is not mandatory.

• Bachelor or advanced degree

• Exhibits servant and creative leadership (VACC) behavior

• Exhibits a Lean-Agile Mindset

• Demonstrated experience building high performing teams

• Have a keen IT market focus: you are passionate about major trends for the specific discipline

• Demonstrates an executive presence, strong business acumen, ability to navigate ambiguity, and manages complexity

• Manages risks progressively and in a way that leads to opportunity

• Enterprise mindset that can break down silos. Focus on delivery through collaboration, and bringing people together to work towards the same purpose across organizational boundaries.

• Ability to empower teams and individuals to act autonomously and hold them accountable.

• Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has a strong passion for innovation

Location - Primary Location: Madrid - Spain 

Travel - Minimized by leveraging virtual collaboration methods

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Working model - hybrid with minimum 50% expected in the office

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.