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The PositionPosition : Sr. Programs & Solutions Manager Commercial & Corporate Services - Global Procurement
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche. Let's build a healthier future together.
The Opportunity
This Programs and Solutions team sits within the Strategy and Solutions Chapter, which encompasses a number of different strategic and innovative teams. Our purpose is to guide strategic priorities, advance value delivery through solutions and digital excellence, govern compliance, and drive sustainability to deliver continuous improvement and strengthen Global Procurement’s impact on the wider Roche organization.
As a Sr. Programs & Solutions Manager (Commercial & Corporate Services), you will operate as part of a team that brings market expertise, supplier-driven innovation, and strategic execution capability to the organization. Your primary roles and responsibilities include:
- Drive Market & Supplier-Driven Innovation: Co-create and deliver market and supplier-driven solutions (Digital and/or Service based) to meet customer needs and address strategic business pain-points.
- Deliver Complex Strategic Programs & Projects: Directly lead and execute large-scale strategic programs (such as category transformations, buying channel reconfiguration, cost transformations, complex negotiations, and sourcing strategies) for senior stakeholders in a global matrix environment
- Act as a Subject Matter Advisor: Identify, clarify, and diagnose complex business customer problem statements in collaboration with Commercial & Corporate leaders.
- Deliver Tangible Impact Beyond Standard Metrics: Prioritise efforts to bring identifiable value using data to drive decision-making and specification changes.
- Develop Frameworks and Approaches: Apply, refine, and champion execution approaches for both "beyond-procurement" innovation models and complex strategic programs.
- Advocate and Enable: Advise and influence business stakeholders to align strategic direction, leveraging market insights, storytelling, and data-driven recommendations.
- Foster Collaboration & Community: Build cross-functional networks, cultivating an environment of radical collaboration, psychological safety, and shared best practices.
Who you are
- You hold a bachelor degree in Business, Life Sciences, or a related field.
- +7 years of experience in procurement, with category experience in commercial (e.g. marketing, media, data & analytics) and / or corporate services (e.g. professional services, consulting) ideally with a few years of management consulting experience.
- Solid background of leading supplier innovation, digital solutions, category transformation, complex cost-out initiatives, or high-value negotiations.
- Proven track record of co-creating market-first supplier innovations and delivering high-stakes strategic initiatives.
- Driven by a challenger mindset, valuing speed-to-impact and scaling proven frameworks over starting from scratch.
- Exceptional presentation and dialogue skills, capable of navigating senior-level discussions, influencing decision-making, and translating complex market opportunities into compelling business cases. You can work from a hypothesis-led mindset combining data (spend, market and X-domain datasets) and insight on business behaviors to influence change ways or working/sourcing models
- Enterprise thinker who "connects the dots" across the Roche network to solve business challenges.
Preferred
- Management consulting experience.
Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Mississauga is 136,936.00 and 179,728.50 of hiring range. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors as determined by the company.
We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants for this role.
This posting is for an existing vacancy at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Who we areA 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
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Life Sciences, or a related field
- More than 7 years of procurement experience
- Category experience in commercial services such as marketing, media, data and analytics, and/or corporate services such as professional services or consulting
- Experience leading supplier innovation, digital solutions, category transformation, complex cost-out initiatives, or high-value negotiations
- Track record of delivering supplier innovations and high-stakes strategic initiatives
- Exceptional presentation, dialogue, stakeholder influence, and business-case development skills
- Ability to use data, market insights, and behavioral insights to influence sourcing and operating-model changes
- Management consulting experience
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).
