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 PositionWe are the People Insights & Technology Chapter, which is part of our global People & Culture (P&C) organization. We are an agile organization, and our resources, capabilities, and knowledge are distributed across a worldwide integrated network of P&C experts. Customer-centricity is a central principle for P&C, and we pride ourselves on giving our people the opportunity to leverage our strong business knowledge while building strong and trusting relationships. We aim to create a seamless end-to-end employee experience. As part of the Technology Area of Practice (AoP), you will contribute to living our Vision: Creating a seamless digital and human P&C experience to unlock the greatness in our people and generate strategic business impact.
Application period end date: 15 December 2025
The Opportunity
You, as the Workday Product Manager, translate customer and business needs into a large enterprise Product solution. Create the vision and align stakeholders around the vision for the product. Evangelize the shared vision across larger teams to empower independent decision making for specific product teams. Define a compelling vision for the product that reflects customer and business needs in line with the strategic themes for P&C Technology and aligns stakeholders around the vision for the product.
You will collect structured feedback in collaboration with Product Owners and the Adoption & Change Manager to continuously improve product quality.
Possesses a solid understanding of business operations and adeptly contextualizes P&C Tech adoption data into the broader business context.
Drives discussions with Business Stakeholders and prioritizes product features considering specific business and employee needs, offering valuable perspectives on how these features contribute to the larger strategic objectives of P&C and deeply understands and represents customer needs and wants, using these insights to inform the vision and roadmap.
Defines a compelling product vision and roadmap for the overall Product scope that aligns with the overall P&C Technology Portfolio strategy and also anticipates future needs/trends and creates a shared vision across larger teams to empower independent decision making.
Develops the core positioning and messaging for the product and prioritizes product features and capabilities across the solution. Final decision maker when respective Product Owners can not align on priority, if needed.
Deeply understands the P&C processes and data for their product scope and has a good understanding of the interconnectivity with the rest of the Technology landscape and cultivates strong partnerships with key P&C stakeholders and collaborates with internal experts, such as Product Owners, Business Analysts and architects, to enable seamless execution of the product roadmap with deep understanding of the product’s capabilities and features as well other competitive solutions
Excels at coaching and developing squad members, providing constructive feedback, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Has a deep understanding of the dynamics of AOP members and is able to leverage individual strengths to maximize the work stream delivery and fosters a self-organizing work stream culture, enabling work stream members maximizing their contributions towards the AoP and Work Stream visions. Cocreates and communicates the portfolio decisions. Identifies and anticipates potential resistance to agreed decisions, and proactively addresses it.
Who you are
Bachelor's degree (Masters preferred) in a related field such as computer science, business, or related field with 10+ experience operating in a large corporate environment with strong business acumen to understand corporate business levers and the need for pragmatism
Experience with Workday (preferred) or other HR systems(SuccessFactors, Cornerstone, ServiceNow, etc.) and large scale implementations with familiarity with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
Polished communicator with the ability to evangelize technology solutions to a wide range of stakeholders through visualization and storytelling and valued leader, team member and effective collaborator within cross-functional squads
Ability to navigate ambiguity and react quickly and strategically to changing priorities with technical Product and/or Project Management experience
Excellent verbal, written and communication skills in English (additional languages are a plus) with a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions
In Exchange we provide you with
Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career.
A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
