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The PositionJob Summary:
The Digital Product Value Stream Leader is a strategic leadership role responsible for owning the end-to-end lifecycle and commercial success of Roche Diagnostics China’s "Connected Lab" digital portfolio. This role requires a visionary leader who will define the long-term strategic direction and vision, as well as a roadmap for connected laboratory solutions, ensuring alignment with Roche’s broader digital ecosystem and the specific needs of the Chinese market.
In this capacity, you will lead, coach and empower a team of Product Managers, fostering a culture of agility, customer-centricity, and outcome-based delivery. This role serves as a critical bridge, ensuring seamless synergy between technical engineering, commercial go-to-market strategies, and customer experience, ensuring that our digital value stream maximizes laboratory efficiency, data connectivity, and diagnostic value. You will also be accountable for the P&L performance, adoption, and sustained growth of the Connected Lab product suite.
The opportunities:
- Value Stream Strategy: Define and execute a cohesive digital strategy for the Connected Lab value stream, transitioning products from concept to launch and maturity while ensuring seamless integration with laboratory hardware and middleware.
- Team Leadership: Build, coach, and lead a high-performing team of Product Managers; drive functional excellence in product discovery, backlog prioritization, and roadmap planning.
- Lifecycle Management: Oversee the complete product lifecycle (PLM) for the portfolio, making data-driven decisions on investment, iteration, and sunsetting to maximize ROI.
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Act as the primary interface between local R&D, Global teams, Commercial, and Customer Support to remove bottlenecks and ensure timely delivery of value to customers.
- Market Success: Deeply understand the China diagnostics landscape to drive product-market fit, ensuring solutions address local regulatory requirements, workflow challenges, and digital trends.
Who you are:
Education & Qualifications:
- Master or bachelor's degree in IT, Finance, Business or Biomedical Sciences
Skills & Competencies:
- Deep curiosity about the healthcare ecosystem with a fluency in common business models and knowledge of the competitive landscape for digital health and diagnostics
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical stills, ability to work alone as product business owner to drive the projects forward.
- Leadership skills, including strategic thinking, creativity, integrity, trust, accountability, credibility, judgment, persuasion/influence, fairness and high ethical standards.
- Ability to positively approach new challenges and opportunities, using creative thought processes to uniquely solve problems
- Ability to build and execute processes with a mindset toward the future
- Strong strategic planning skills
- High tolerance for ambiguity
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Organized, detail-oriented
- High level of written and oral communication skills
Experience:
12+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Information, Scientific Communications, or Clinical Informatics, preferably in a pharmaceutical, medical device, or health technology setting.
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
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in IT, Finance, Business, or Biomedical Sciences
- 12+ years' experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Information, Scientific Communications, or Clinical Informatics
- Experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, or health technology settings
- Proven product lifecycle management and roadmap ownership for digital products
- Experience leading and coaching product manager teams and driving product discovery/backlog prioritization
- P&L accountability and demonstrated ability to drive product adoption and commercial growth
- Strong cross-functional orchestration with R&D, global teams, commercial, and customer support
- Deep understanding of China diagnostics landscape, local regulatory requirements, workflow challenges, and digital health trends
- Strong strategic planning, problem-solving, communication, organization, and ability to work in ambiguous environments
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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).
