People & Culture Business Partner, Product Development

We are looking for a Genentech People & Culture (P&C) Business Partner to support the Roche Pharma Product Development (PD) organization.
 

Product Development Overview
The Product Development (PD) mission is to improve patients’ lives around the world with unique medicines that have a meaningful impact. We conduct global clinical trials, analyze results, monitor safety, and work with regulatory authorities to provide truly differentiated medicines to patients. Our primary disease focus areas are Oncology, Immunology, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience & Cardiovascular Metabolic. We attract, develop, and retain the most talented people in the industry, and have Development centers in Basel, Switzerland; South San Francisco, California; Welwyn, England; Mississauga, Canada; and Shanghai, China, as well as operations in many other countries.
 

The Opportunity:
This position partners flexibly across leadership areas in the Product Development (PD) organization. While primarily based within the Genentech organization, this position will contribute to global, highly matrixed work and teams that span countries.

This position collaborates closely with client business leaders, other PD Business Partners, and Chapter stakeholders to understand long-term business needs and strategic P&C priorities. This position then translates PD business strategy into P&C strategies for their leadership areas and drives fit-for-purpose implementation. This position leads and drives change initiatives, people streams, and Work Product Teams to embed and implement the overall P&C strategies for assigned client groups. This position is accountable as a trusted strategic partner and coach, advancing organizational design and effectiveness, for building a diverse and inclusive work culture, and securing future talent and capabilities.

Business Acumen

• Demonstrates the mindset of a business leader and entrepreneur

• 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 add organizational value

• Maintains knowledge of the 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 WPTs/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, WPTs/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 influence business leaders and P&C professionals to required outcomes

• Influences, develops, mentors and provides leadership to networks and WPTs/squads in partnering with Advisory Business Partners at our Costa Rica People Support Solutions Center

 Strategic P&C Insights & Innovation

• Play a key role in supporting/driving business transformation projects and initiatives within each business area where there is an identified need from a people/organizational strategy perspective.

• Gathers and analyzes internal and external data, evidence-based research, benchmarks, P&C, and busi