People Relations Partner

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 Position

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.

Our People Relations Community is working in a rapidly changing environment and understands the impact of external and internal factors affecting our people and our Business. Leveraging the OneRoche philosophy and the power of our Global people ecosystem, our PR community succeeds through collaboration and trustful partnerships across Chapters, Geographies and Client groups. We operate with a common mindset and shared values and work together as a Global Community to support one another, working with autonomy but fostering
good working relationships, collaboration, leveraging our combined experience and empowering and developing others.

The Opportunity:
The People Relations Partner must have deep domain experience in the area of employee relations and/or labor relations. Our PR Partners and PR Advisors create value through trusted partnership, by finding solutions that consider the experience of our employees and the interests of Roche. They are key contributors to positive employee experience in moments that matter and provide proactive solutions to enable our people to focus on our core purpose (unlock greatness). They coach and train leaders for proactive early interventions. They operate on a balanced, neutral perspective to support successful navigation through challenging moments which is contributing to the positive reputation of Roche. Through our network approach we manage local specifics and complexity by
leveraging geographical proximity and cross-divisional capabilities. To ensure that we operate on a common foundation our networks navigate within three regions (APAC, EMEA, AMERICAS) to enable global alignment on our PR strategy and a OneRoche mindset.

The PR Partner balances value creation and value protection activities, harnessing our license to operate responsibilities through our Creative Leadership mindset and ways of working. The PR Partner will be strategically focused and work in collaboration with P&C and business squads to cultivate cooperation based on mutual trust with a balanced, neutral perspective to support successful navigation through challenging moments which is contributing to the positive reputation of Roche. They contribute through a global lens and ensure a fair and consistent approach to all people practices and ways of working. The PR Partner quickly adapts and deals with emergent issues where needed as well as identifies long term opportunities to enhance the employee experience and positively impact moments that matter.

STEWARDSHIP

• Maintains focus on enabling true partnership and by encouraging our people to approach and consider employment matters with a creative mindset lens (propose moving this sentence here an modified beginning)

• Sparring partner and coach for fostering VACC leadership and a leadership culture in line with the Roche leadership frame

• Works with the AOP BP, IWS Partner and the business to create, advise, support and implement strategy for change management approach/reorganisations/workforce planning including creation and participation of squads

• Drives change with proven ability to influence business leaders and P&C professionals to required outcomes

STRATEGIC PR ACTIVITIES

• Act as investigator or as a point of escalation for complex complaints including but not limited to those involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, and other potential

• violations of company policy and labor/employment law and serve as a point of handoff/escalation from internal partners (such as Business Partners, business leaders, IWS partners, Legal, Data Privacy, SHE etc)

• Surfaces root causes and broader trends through the use of data in order to ensure business leaders are best positioned to address any pervasive concerns and advise on how to prevent complaints through fair and consistent performance management

• Provides thought leadership to business leaders on restructures and reorganization and engaging internal and external partners and stakeholders to drive initiatives to conclusion

• Advis