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Senior Strategic Programs Manager (Business Impact Programmes)

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.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.  Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity:

This role 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 Senior Strategic Programs Manager (Business Impact Programmes), you will bring expertise and ability to deliver end to end Complex Procurement Programmes that result in significant change and high impact for the business. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a Category, Strategic Sourcing, Negotiations and Complex Programme Delivery, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches that positively impact functional goals.

You will collaborate with internal procurement, finance, and other relevant colleagues to align on needs and opportunity identification to develop, enhance, or deploy functional enabling services and solutions that increase procurement's effectiveness and efficiency. 

You will work closely with other team members, either as a peer coach, project or workstream lead, or team lead to embed best practices and deploy services, solutions, and frameworks to the broader procurement function..

As Senior Strategic Programs Manager (Business Impact Programmes), part of the Strategic Programmes Execution team,  you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business/team requirements, including but not limited to:

Shaping, driving and leading / managing complex programmes as part of the project teams in collaboration with the Procurement and business leaders within the relevant areas

Using Agile project techniques (e.g. Scrum / Design Thinking), data driven thinking and structured end to end Procurement techniques (e.g. Negotiations / Strategic sourcing) to enhance and accelerate delivery of programme teams

Create relevant content, analysis and effectively engage Stakeholders to deliver the Programme objectives

Support GP  capability development as a practitioner of our relevant Procurement Excellence approaches and methodologies. Implementing them on programmes and working with the capability lead to suggest improvement to our methodologies

Support the team and GP BSC and capability goals through your work, supporting development of approaches and proactive engagement with team and GP colleagues

Who you are: 

You hold a university degree, preferably in business or life science.

You have 7+ years procurement, supply chain, or management consulting experience.

You have cross Category and Global (xFunctional / Business Area) complex sourcing and negotiations experience in a dedicated Programme fashion with xFunctional team

You have experience working with programme teams where you are not the day to day owner with  demonstrated ability to apply previous experience in new situations easily

You have an understanding of Global Negotiation and Complex Global Sourcing methodologies and application at scale and pace

You have strong global programme execution experience - employing structured programme methodologies (Agile / Scrum / Design Thinking preferred)

You show data driven thinking with good experience of using data to identify, quantify opportunities and use to manage programmes and engagement

You have demonstrated ability to structure strategies and communicate effectively with varying audiences and strong stakeholder management experience

You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

You are fluent in English to a Business level. German ability also beneficial

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

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.

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