Senior Communications 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 Roche Diagnostics Solutions (RDS) business area, with 6,000 employees, will be responsible for all diagnostics solutions and has end-to-end accountability for the development and delivery of these solutions. It combines large parts of units that previously sat in Centralised & Point of Care Solutions (CPS), Roche Molecular Solutions (RMS) as well as areas of Solution Integration & Services (SIS) and Global Business Development (BD).

RDS includes the new customer areas (Core Lab, Molecular Lab, Pathology Lab, Points of Care) and functions such as R&D, Clinical Development & Medical Affairs, Portfolio & Project Management, Marketing & Customer Insights, Global Access & Policy and Global Customer Support.

THE OPPORTUNITY

As the Senior Communications Business Partner you will be responsible for developing and implementing communications to help deliver on business objectives, and for helping to engage and inspire key stakeholders. You will also support the RDS Customer Areas/Functions as a senior member of the relevant Centre of Excellence (CoE) which is responsible for public and community relations, corporate social media, executive communications and portfolio and/or function-specific content creation.

You rely on effective teamwork and collaboration with the broader Diagnostics Communications community, and work in partnership with your colleagues in the Portfolio/Functions CoE and the Head of Communications, RDS Portfolio/Head of Communications, RDS Functions to define objectives, approach and areas of focus. You leverage your network and seize the unique opportunity to help transform the way we work in Diagnostics Communications.

You embrace an agile mindset and are energised by change. You act as a coach and advise on relevant communication approaches. You want to be a key player in transforming Diagnostics and develop new leadership skills in a fast-paced, rapidly changing industry/environment.

WHO YOU ARE

• In alignment with the Heads of Communications, RDS Customer Areas/Head of Communications, RDS Functions, plan and deliver integrated communications strategies, narratives and campaigns that engage and align stakeholders.

• Align Communications strategy, goals, and objectives to overall Customer Area/Function priorities; provide support on high-value, impactful external and employee communications, and crisis and issues communications.

• Drive and develop communications tools and strategies to engage and inspire a diverse workforce, equip leaders with the skills to effectively inspire their organisations, and equip colleagues with the skills and capabilities they need to maximise their interactions with stakeholders (creating ambassadors for Roche Diagnostics).

• Establish and maintain end-to-end integrated communication planning including measurement against objectives.

• Maintain broad-based knowledge of RDS Portfolio/Function areas of focus; use knowledge of business and communications insights, metrics, expertise, and decision principles to effectively diagnose topics with a wide range of complexity.

• Stay abreast of internal and external developments, industry trends, as these pertain to strategic communication and ‘new ways of working’ priorities.

• You role model the We@RocheDiagnostics dimensions and foster these in the rest of the organisation 

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrated passion for and role-modeling leading in ambiguity, with proven ability to lead with a creative mindset, very high self-awareness and for acting as a coach and mentor for other leaders and professionals.

• Demonstrated enterprise mindset and system thinking, proven ability to work effectively across multiple business areas, global teams and key leadership areas in a fast paced VUCA environment.

• Demonstrated ability to influence with courageous authenticity and build trust with individuals at all levels within the organisation.

• Demonstrated excellent situ