Project (R&D) Manager

Roche; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Roche in Vienna is seeking a Product Operations Lead (POL) to serve as the operational backbone between strategy and execution, ensuring focus on discovery and delivery.

You will maintain a single source of truth for investments, capacity and risks, reduce friction, and enable executives to see progress without overburdening teams.

The role collaborates with Portfolio Management and RIS Business Operations to drive the RIS Operating Model and standardized workflows.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years in diagnostics, life sciences, or related fields in project management or product operations.
• Scientific, engineering, or business background with a strong operational mindset.
• Experience with lifecycle management, product development in a complex portfolio environment.

Aufgaben

• Maintain strategic traceability across the Life Cycle from strategy to delivery.
• Be the single source of truth for investments, capacity, and risks.
• Reduce friction and shield teams from overhead to enable discovery and delivery.
• Drive adoption of the RIS Operating Model and standardized workflows.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies and provide executive visibility.

Kenntnisse

Operational mindset

Analytical skills

Strategic planning

Ability to work with ambiguity

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Diagnostics/Life Sciences background

Project management or product operations experience

Tools

Planisware

Jira

MS-Office

G-Suite

Orion

Trello

Jobbeschreibung

The Position

Product Operations Lead (POL) — Project Management Chapter, Roche Informatics (RIS)

Potential Locations: Sant Cugat (ES), Vienna (VIE)

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients' lives, and we are bold in both decision and action — we believe that good business means a better world. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

The Opportunity

You will be the operational backbone of a Life Cycle — the person who ensures that strategy translates cleanly into execution.

While leadership owns strategic decisions and empowered product teams own delivery, you make sure the connection between both is seamless. You bring visibility, reduce friction, and shield teams from operational overhead so they can focus on what matters: product discovery and delivery.

You'll work at the intersection of Portfolio Management, Business Operations, and the product teams — maintaining the single source of truth for investments, capacity, and risks, and ensuring executive leadership has decision-ready visibility without pushing bureaucratic overhead down to the teams.

What You'll Do

Ensure strategic traceability across the Life Cycle

• Maintain a clean, continuous link between Portfolio and Life Cycle objectives, cascading strategic context to product groups
• Enable empowered teams to make autonomous, high-quality decisions by providing the alignment and context they need
• Establish consistent frameworks for measuring business outcomes — not just output — keeping a clear thread from strategy to product epics

Be the single source of truth

• Guarantee a reliable, consolidated data source for the Life Cycle's investments, business viability, capacity, and risks
• Partner with Portfolio Management and Business Operations to provide executive visibility, absorbing ad-hoc reporting requests to protect the teams
• Maintain consistency across execution systems (Jira, Orion, Monday.com), ensuring tools reflect the total state of work without pushing manual overhead to the execution layer

Drive operational flow and remove friction

• Analyze operational metrics across the Life Cycle to proactively identify and resolve structural bottlenecks before they impact delivery
• Facilitate Life Cycle-level risk and opportunity management (ROMA) and coordinate critical integration points between Life Cycles
• Track high-level dependencies and remove cross-team impediments as a servant-leader

Enable the operating model

• Drive organic adoption of the RIS Operating Model (including PLCF and mQMS) at the Life Cycle level
• Integrate frameworks into standardized workflows — ensuring compliance without overburdening product teams
• Continuously refine and simplify operational processes with RIS Business Operations, fiercely protecting the teams' space for innovation

Who You Are

• 7+ years in Diagnostics, Life Sciences, or related fields in project management, product operations, or related functions
• Scientific, engineering, or business background with a strong operational mindset
• Deep understanding of lifecycle management, product development, and product care in a complex portfolio environment
• Experience working with cross-functional teams: you connect strategy to execution naturally
• Strong analytical skills: you see patterns in data and translate them into actionable insights
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you bring structure where there is none without waiting to be asked
• Working knowledge of Planisware, Jira, MS-Office, G-Suite. Familiarity with Orion, Trello, or similar tools is a plus
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Willingness to travel 5–15%

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

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.