Program Lead - Chronic Care Workflows

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The Position

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single 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. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

Role Purpose
As the Program Lead for Chronic Care Workflows, you are responsible for facilitating/orchestrating the collaboration in the core product team and cross functional teams, as well as regions, affiliates and customers. You lead & support the squad and make sure that the squads are working effectively.

You will be a key interface in translating customer and business needs, as well as strategy into clear priorities as a Program Lead, working closely with Business Product Managers (BPMs), International Business Leaders (IBLs), functional representatives and the above-mentioned squad. 

You will be responsible

 Drive business results and customer value:

• Address functional needs, e.g. technical, regulatory, business - in alignment with

International Business Leader (IBL) / Lifecycle Leader (LCL) - and operational Issues.

• Engage in solutions and/or product collaborations
• Accountable for product(s) from development, launch preparation, launch execution, on-market support and obsolescence.
• Align all development activities (in scope of the predefined goals / solution) in
  • accordance with cross-functional evaluation and risk assessment
• Proactively challenge functions on delivery and alternative courses of action
• Advance the work of RIS, making tradeoffs and breaking silos
• Coordinates cross-functional teams combining operational and strategic issues, in order to ensure that products are developed and commercially available in scope, time and budget.
• Supports the systematic commercial development of the product line (incl. product definition, final scope, positioning & pricing strategy) ensuring the squad has the right focus, objectives and KPIs
• Supports and facilitates the prioritization of customer requirements across the markets in collaboration with BPMs and Product Owners in line with the RIS, portfolio and product objectives.
• Leads and supports Squad efforts, to ensure development efforts on budget/scope/time (responsible for planning costs: prime snapshots, maintenance of Prime planning, underspending/costs)
• Collaborate with other Project Leaders and Project Teams on total business solutions
• Manage relationships and communication with the functions and other LCTs
• Accountable for all activities related to development, approval, launch and working closely with the IBL to support commercialization handover to regions/countries
• Drive team debate and decision around key issues that determine product quality, functionality or schedule
• Break down silos and improve working effectiveness as an ‘integrator’ across the:
  • organization as needed; in particular through collaboration with other Networks
  • leaders and stakeholders to resolve escalated bottlenecks and dependencies, and,
  • rebalance work & help in line with greater strategic priorities
• Enable the organization’s New Ways of Working
  • Act as role-model for Agile Leadership behaviors and SAFe, as well as for our culture, mindset & behaviors as defined in We@RocheDiagnostics
  • Model behaviors to support the organization’s transformation to new, more Agile Ways of Working – e.g. new decision making/governance practices, collaboration, etc.
• Travel for key business critical initiatives & engagement, while ensuring travel costs and carbon footprint is optimized across the program

Your profile

• Project Management role/Program Lead or Program development background - preferable Digital or Technology space, business & financial acumen, and 5-10 years of experience (in regulated industry is a plus).
• Good understanding of global product