Manager, Senior Technical Training

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. 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. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Diagnostics are an integral part of decision-making along every step of a person’s health, wellness and disease journey. A diagnostic test alone can help clinicians change the course of someone’s healthcare experience – and their life. We are a healthcare pioneer and the industry’s global leader in in-vitro diagnostics, our Diagnostics Division pushes boundaries and challenges the status quo to redefine what’s possible. Our commitment to research and development means we can bring to the market integrated solutions in diagnostic testing, laboratory efficiency, healthcare digitalisation and decision support tools and software. Our products deliver increasingly precise information to help save lives, prevent or control the risk of infection and monitor treatment effectiveness. 

The Opportunity

As the leader of the Technical Training team, you will play a crucial role in empowering our development team with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in their roles. You will be responsible for developing and delivering engaging and dynamic training programs that captivate our team members, ensuring that they are equipped to thrive in a rapidly evolving technical landscape. You will:

• Lead the design and implementation of innovative training initiatives that align with our company's technical objectives and strategic vision.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts to create compelling training materials that showcase the excitement and possibilities within our technical domain.

• Foster a culture of continuous learning and development by organizing interactive workshops, virtual sessions, and hands-on activities that inspire and motivate our team.

• Evaluate training effectiveness and seek feedback to continuously enhance the impact and engagement of our training programs.

• Leads a team of technical trainers in a collaborative and inclusive environment to deliver technical training to product development team members.

• Ensures strategic direction for technical training meets the needs of product development and aligns with the global direction.

• Engages development leaders to determine current and future training curriculum based on business needs.

• Ensures that training program is effective and develops strategies to improve program success.

• Remains up to date on tools and technology that enable effective learning experiences.

• Leads projects/programs in Development to implement new tools / initiatives owned locally and globally.

• Ensures coordination and communication between development functional units and interfacing functions.

• Participates on global teams to provide insights for the customer area products/processes.

Who You Are

• 10+ or more of progressive, related work experience demonstrating increased competencies.

• Master's degree with 8+ years of experience in the following functions or combination of: reagent systems integration, chemistry/reagent design/development, and/or project management.

• PhD: with 6+ years of combined related academic and/or industry experience in the following functions or combination of: reagent systems integration, chemistry/reagent design/development, and/or project management.

• Proven people leadership and management experience.

• Experience with product development processes and associated regulatory requirements.

Preferred

• Collaborates with stakeholders and users to gain insight and to expand areas of agreement and narrow areas of disagreement.

• Establishes and provides on-going support of knowledge management processes and tools in order to ensure continued organizational viability and progress toward vision.

• Examines and defines factors that coul