Data, Insights & Analytics Lead - RDT Global Products & GPS

2286 Hoffmann-La Roche Limited; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 137,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG in Mississauga seeks a Data, Insights & Analytics Lead to guide cross‑functional teams and define strategic directions for complex products. You will influence senior stakeholders, align priorities, and mentor teams in a fast‑paced, data‑driven environment.

You will drive enterprise‑wide initiatives, scale Agile practices, and partner with central product engineering to deliver local value while advancing Roche’s analytics capability.

Qualifications

• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and have 8+ years of Consultancy experience, including 5+ years in life sciences/pharma or the assigned business function being supported.
• You demonstrate a proven track record of leading extremely complex projects with enterprise‑wide implications and anticipating changing business conditions.
• You possess deep expertise in multiple Consultancy capabilities and a proficient level of business process domain knowledge across multiple domains.
• You demonstrate strong ability to scale Agile frameworks to align priorities across multiple squads or product teams.
• You have advanced capability in shaping product roadmaps and workforce strategies based on extensive industry knowledge and strategic trends.

Responsibilities

• Leads cross‑functional teams on high‑impact, complex products.
• Shapes and influences strategy for complex products and cross‑functional agile teams.
• Engages with senior stakeholders and executives, managing expectations and sponsorship.
• Determines best course of action in new/innovative capabilities for Leadership in RDT.
• Leads extremely complex projects with enterprise‑wide implications and mitigates changing business needs.
• Acts as a direct, localized extension of the central Insights & Analytics product engineering team.

Skills

Executive stakeholder management

Agile scaling

Strategic thinking

Coaching & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

QlikView

Tableau

Thoughtspot

DBT

Airflow

Python

Job description

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 A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

As a Data, Insights & Analytics Lead, you will serve as a strategic thought leader and go‑to expert for RDT. You will lead cross‑functional teams on high‑impact, complex products, anticipating changing business conditions and recommending strategic directions with enterprise‑wide implications. By engaging with senior executives and scaling Agile frameworks, you will align priorities across product squads and resolve unprecedented problems. You will shape product roadmaps, influence domain strategy using extensive industry knowledge, and masterfully mentor colleagues to foster a highly collaborative, safe, and innovative team environment. While embedded in the local market or affiliate, the DIAL operates as the vital connective node at the edge of our business—capturing critical signals, needs, and requirements from the front lines and transmitting them back to the central product teams, while seamlessly delivering central capabilities back to the local users.

The Opportunity

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Leads cross‑functional teams in a matrix organization, including peers from outside of your own function, to deliver high‑impact and/or complex products.
• Shapes and influences strategy for complex products and cross‑functional agile teams.
• Accountability/Problem Solving: Decides on important topics with a significant impact on the goals and objectives of the organization. Helps solve unique or unprecedented problems that impact major products.
• Stakeholder Management: Engages with senior stakeholders and executives, managing expectations and sponsorship. Communicates strategic information, issues, and solution options across the enterprise or multiple large business portfolios. Able to captivate audiences and exchange ideas by mastering the messaging used and selecting the most appropriate communication channels.
• Impact/Strategy: Acts as a go‑to person for Leadership in RDT, determining the best course of action in new/innovative capabilities.
• Complexity/ (Product Size): Leads extremely complex projects with enterprise‑wide implications. Anticipates changing conditions and business needs, and recommends strategic directions to management to mitigate them.
• Business/Technical ability: Receives positive feedback, maintains a strong reputation, and is recognized by organizational leaders internally and externally due to impact, expertise, and collaboration capability.
• Strategic Liaison: Act as a direct, localized extension of the central Insights & Analytics product engineering team.

Who you are

• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and have 8+ years of Consultancy experience, including 5+ years in life sciences/pharma or the assigned business function being supported.
• You demonstrate a proven track record of leading extremely complex projects with enterprise‑wide implications and anticipating changing business conditions.
• You possess deep expertise in multiple Consultancy capabilities and a proficient level of business process domain knowledge across multiple domains.
• You demonstrate strong ability to scale Agile frameworks to align priorities across multiple squads or product teams.
• You have advanced capability in shaping product roadmaps and workforce strategies based on extensive industry knowledge and strategic trends.
• Technical Fluency: Familiarity with high-demand concepts like AI/ML tools, advanced insights, and conversational analytics.
• Agile Advising: A fast learner capable of translating and advising the business on complex, emerging data topics and routing those needs back to the appropriate central product teams.

Tools and Technologies

• Visualization: QlikView, Tableau, Thoughtspot
• ETL/ELT: DBT, Airflow
• Data Warehouse: S3 and Redshift/Redshift spectrum, Python, AI/ML technology, GenAI and Agentic AI applications

Additional Qualifications

• You demonstrate exceptional executive stakeholder management skills, with the charisma to captivate audiences and master strategic messaging.
• You have mastery in coaching and mentoring colleagues to solve particular problems and develop their skills within a safe and collaborative environment.

Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Mississauga is 136,936.00 and 179,728.50 of hiring range. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors as determined by the company.

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants for this role.

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. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.