OCM/Communications Wave Lead - ASPIRE Diagnostics

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

Please note that this is a Fixed Term opportunity with an approximate end date of May 2027. 

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives and we are fearless in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

ASPIRE is a Roche-wide business transformation program that aims to deliver best-in-suite, user-centric digital solutions for Roche that will help manage our company as efficiently as possible.  At the center of ASPIRE is the One Roche Enterprise, the future of our current enterprise landscape. ASPIRE is co-creating one harmonized process house across the Roche enterprise, with SAP S/4HANA at its core - a technology that will replace Roche’s existing and soon outdated SAP local and regional systems. By following a template approach within SAP,  available to all Roche entities around the globe, our core business processes will become more integrated, simplified, harmonized, and scalable.

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As the ASPIRE OCM/Communications Lead, you have overall accountability for leading a wide array of change management and communication activities.  This complex, highly visible role will require a proven background in leading change management, communication and user adoption initiatives on other customer facing large-scale technology implementation projects.  This project requires outstanding leadership skills and experience with change management, training strategies, deployment strategies, employee engagement, and large scale global user adoption of new technology.  In this role, you will provide oversight, guidance, and support to workstream leads and deployment teams to ensure appropriate communication vehicles are provided to ensure the success of the ASPIRE deployment.  This role will be part of the ASPIRE Indianapolis Megasite (Wave 5b) Lead Team.  

The Opportunity

• Responsible for the the design, development and implementation of the deployment OCM/Communications strategy in line with the overall OCM and communications strategy of the program to improve employee engagement and information while minimizing resistance

• Identify and ensure delivery of Wave OCM & Communications approach and activities and report KPIs to Wave Deployment Lead 

• Champion the change control process for the deployment (e.g. schedule, scope, budget) and ensure that it maps accordingly to global ASPIRE change control processes

• Coordinate and guide OCM Coordinators along with overseeing and coordinating efforts of all OCM projects in strong collaboration with the Change Impact Lead 

• Together with the Wave Training Lead,  ensure close collaboration for OCM & Training across the wave

• Ensures that project steps are in alignment with customer expectations and objectives, delivered on time, within budget and according to ASPIRE project standards and methods 

• Communicates with various stakeholder groups on local, regional and global levels as required 

• Responsible for Risk, Assumption, Issue, and Decisions (RAID) management

• Manage development and execution of communications materials, such as email announcements, promotional materials, articles, newsletters; ensures and maintains a coherent approach and messaging across the wave

• Partner with the Wave and Local  Deployment Leads  and Change Impact Lead to develop stakeholder outreach and engagement efforts to generate awareness, understanding, buy-in, and support. 

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in related specialization areas 

• Proven experience in change management in a client-facing environment

• 10+ years’ experience leading and mentoring project teams on relevant engagements

• Strong OCM/Communication skills and proven leadership in running successful change management initia