Jobs at Roche

Leads strategic procurement programs and supplier-driven innovations across commercial and corporate services. Directs category transformations, sourcing strategies, complex negotiations, cost initiatives, digital solutions, and buying-channel changes in a global matrix environment. Advises senior stakeholders, develops frameworks, uses data and market insights to influence decisions, and builds cross-functional collaboration. The role requires significant procurement experience, strategic execution capability, supplier innovation expertise, and strong presentation and influencing skills.

Leads global computer systems validation and quality assurance strategies for pharmaceutical systems. Oversees GMP compliance, inspection readiness, deviations, CAPAs, investigations, system releases, periodic reviews, and continuous improvement. Acts as the primary quality subject matter expert while supporting ERP and QC/QA system implementations, data integrity, and cross-functional stakeholder coaching.

Drives strategic and operational initiatives across Roche’s Product Development Data Sciences organization. Partners with leaders to coordinate planning, reporting, governance, communications, and cross-functional execution. Manages leadership meetings, initiative tracking, performance monitoring, and continuous-improvement efforts while aligning enterprise priorities with operational realities. Supports innovation strategies including in silico and 3D approaches, resolves issues in complex environments, and facilitates prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and follow-through across multiple initiatives.

Leads learning technology strategy and adoption for global pharmaceutical manufacturing. Pilots generative AI, immersive technologies, adaptive learning, and micro-learning solutions; develops business cases, ROI models, validation pathways, and integration strategies. Champions accessible digital learning experiences and guides technology product owners managing LMS and LXP platforms. Partners with IT, Quality Assurance, operations, and learning stakeholders to deliver scalable, compliant solutions in regulated environments.

Drives global GMP and GSDP compliance through audits of sites, affiliates, suppliers, and service providers. Leads inspection readiness and site inspection management, assesses regulatory risks, develops mitigation strategies, monitors global regulatory trends, improves compliance operating models, and coaches cross-functional colleagues. Requires extensive regulated-industry experience, including GMP auditing or inspection management, strong knowledge of global quality regulations, and domestic and international travel.

The Data Steward documents, catalogs, and maintains clinical, real-world, and operational data throughout the product development lifecycle. Responsibilities include managing metadata, data dictionaries, lineage documentation, quality assessments, classification systems, and stewardship procedures. The role supports FAIR data practices, governance, privacy compliance, and collaboration with IT, scientific, and governance teams. It also contributes to data standards, knowledge sharing, and reliable data reuse across Roche’s development organization.

Leads Roche’s Pharma Technical global learning strategy and team of Learning Business Partners and Experience Architects. Advises senior leaders, consolidates capability needs across manufacturing sites, drives enterprise learning transformations, and promotes competency-based, performance-centered learning. Establishes communities of practice, coaches teams, uses root-cause analysis to distinguish learning from process needs, and partners with Quality and Operations to improve business performance.

Leads global clinical operations excellence and clinical finance initiatives across Roche’s drug development portfolio. Oversees clinical trial budgets, contracts, fair market value, investigator and site payments, vendor governance, compliance, process improvement, and operational strategy. Partners with global stakeholders and external vendors to implement new operating models, improve trial delivery productivity, manage change, and advance clinical development infrastructure.

Leads the global Pharma Technical Learning Hub, overseeing learning design, development, and operations. Directs multidisciplinary teams, manages intake and resource allocation, establishes SLAs and quality standards, modernizes compliance training using competency-based learning, oversees content lifecycle and vendors, and measures learner engagement, competency acquisition, and training effectiveness. Requires deep pharmaceutical technical operations, quality systems, regulatory compliance, instructional design, process optimization, and leadership expertise.

Leads global technology strategy and lifecycle management for Roche’s Quality Management Systems, particularly Veeva Quality Vault QMS and Quality Docs. Translates complex business requirements into compliant solutions, manages roadmaps and backlogs, oversees integrations and system changes, and ensures GxP data governance and validation. Partners with global stakeholders, IT, and validation teams while managing deviations, CAPAs, audits, KPIs, upgrades, replacements, and retirements.

Provides quality assurance oversight for medical device and combination-product suppliers and contract manufacturers. Leads supplier lifecycle activities including audits, investigations, complaints, method validation, change controls, deviations, and root cause analysis. Coordinates global and local quality teams, supports clinical and commercial releases, resolves regulatory issues, and applies Agile, Lean, and AI-enabled methods to improve quality workflows. Requires 5–7 years of relevant industry experience and up to 30% travel.

Leads the design and evolution of scalable statistical computing platforms, scientific software systems, automation workflows, reusable coding tools, and data visualization capabilities. Provides technical strategy across Product Development Data Sciences, advises senior stakeholders, leads complex global initiatives, influences standards and governance, and mentors teams. The role requires deep expertise in data science, statistical computing, clinical research environments, regulatory considerations, Python, R, and enterprise-scale platform development.

Leads Roche’s global QC productivity roadmap and laboratory transformation initiatives across pharmaceutical manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include digital lab transformation, NextLabs deployment, Lean and Six Sigma process optimization, equipment utilization strategies, global quality standardization, and executive stakeholder alignment. The role requires influencing international teams, managing transformation portfolios, improving laboratory efficiency and batch release timelines, and applying financial, operational, and change-management expertise.

Leads master data standards and governance across Pharma Technical Operations. Responsibilities include mapping data landscapes, defining standards, partnering with stewards and system owners, maintaining data lineage and catalogs, ensuring terminology and reference-data consistency, monitoring compliance and KPIs, assessing deviations, and resolving data quality issues. The role requires extensive enterprise data management experience, SQL proficiency, familiarity with data cataloging and quality platforms, and strong stakeholder communication.

Leads strategic procurement business partnering across Roche R&D, including pRED, gRED, and Product Development. Uses business intelligence, spend analytics, market intelligence, and procurement insights to identify opportunities, develop value-creation strategies, influence senior stakeholders, and improve customer experience. Collaborates with procurement capabilities, analytics, market intelligence, category teams, and project groups to develop enterprise-wide solutions, track performance, and deliver strategic and foundational initiatives.

Draft and negotiate clinical trial, confidentiality, and product development contracts across Canada. Manage the full contract lifecycle, ensure alignment with Roche policies, healthcare regulations, privacy laws, and ethical standards, and support clinical operations teams. Collaborate with hospitals, research sites, universities, and internal stakeholders while maintaining templates, playbooks, and legal guidance. The role requires strong contract management, negotiation, communication, and attention to detail.

Leads the strategic development and deployment of Agentic AI, NLP, and process intelligence solutions across Roche’s regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain network. Designs diagnostic models, process mining architectures, NLP ingestion scopes, and human-in-the-loop quality frameworks. Partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI solutions, identifies process bottlenecks and compliance deviations, and mentors cross-functional data science, development, and technology teams.

Lead enterprise resourcing, workforce planning, budgeting, and metrics for PDD. Oversee forecasting, governance, data quality, tooling (Anaplan/Tableau/PowerBI), and a global team to enable data-driven decision making, resource optimization, and executive reporting across portfolio and finance stakeholders.