People & Culture Business 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

The Opportunity

Roche Diagnostics Quality, Regulatory & External Affairs (QR&E) is a fully global organization of approximately 1,500 employees present across 18 countries. This organization is engaged across the entire diagnostic value chain - ensuring our right to operate, shaping the global regulatory environment, and accelerating access to our diagnostic solutions for customers and patients worldwide. 

In People & Culture (HR) our vision is to bring our Roche purpose to life by unlocking the greatness in all our people and organisation. We are a catalyst for enabling high performance while nurturing a sense of belonging and an inclusive culture where we can all thrive as we discover the best ideas and develop truly innovative solutions for patients and Roche’s future success.

This position embodies the mindset of a business leader and entrepreneur, operating flexibly within a highly networked, cross-border structure to support multiple global leadership teams.

As the P&C Business Partner for QR&E, you will be based in the USA but possess a deeply global mindset. This role is designed for an HR professional who is energized by engaging and supporting diverse, global teams and who wants to expand their expertise by learning how P&C and employment landscapes operate in other countries. You will serve as a strategic partner to senior leaders located both inside and outside the USA, navigating a complex matrix organization to translate business priorities into impactful global people strategies. 

You will be an active member of a dedicated, international team of P&C Business Partners. Together, you will collaborate closely across borders and time zones to share insights, align initiatives, and provide seamless, unified support to the global QR&E organization. 

As a trusted strategic partner and coach, you will be accountable for fostering the Roche leadership framework, enhancing international organizational design and effectiveness, and ensuring future talent and capability readiness across regions. 

Business Acumen

• Aligns P&C strategy, goals, and objectives to overall business strategies and objectives, translates P&C strategies to drive key business results; provides guidance on talent management, workforce strategies, organization design and reward and recognition in partnership with Business Partners, other P&C Chapters and subject-matter experts to develop high quality solutions

• Maintains broad-based knowledge of multiple leadership areas across the organization and its operations; uses knowledge of business and P&C insights, metrics, expertise, and decision principles to effectively diagnose topics with a wide range of complexity

• Recommends business practice/work process improvements to identify opportunities for leveraging human capital; ensures P&C initiatives adds organizational value

• Maintains knowledge of external environment and other related information on peer and comparison groups to effectively diagnose and implement strategies to help drive business decisions 

Leadership

• Strategic sparring partner and coach for fostering a leadership culture in line with the Roche leadership framework

• Translates the business vision, mission, and strategy along with the 10 year ambition and P&C Aspirational Goals into projects and initiatives with milestones and delivery schedules; leads or participates in Work Product Teams and squads to effectively meet planned objectives; develops clear  action plans with results-oriented goals for measuring success; drives alignment and buy-in within multiple leadership areas as part of a network

• Diagnoses P&C needs and identifies interventions that address issues of retention, change leadership, employee engagement, and leadership development, partnering with Business Partners, Work Product Teams, squads and other P&C Chapters as appropriate; uses appropriate tools for leadership competency and skills assessment

• Drives and implements change with proven ability to