Squad Lead - Neuroimmunology (Multiple Sclerosis)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Gruppe; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company in Mississauga is seeking a Squad Lead (Franchise Lead) to drive therapeutic ambitions in Neuroimmunology. Candidates should have extensive leadership experience and a proven track record in Multiple Sclerosis. This role involves strategic business development, team mobilization, and maintaining stakeholder relationships. Exceptional leadership, negotiation skills, and the ability to foster high-performance cultures are essential. Competitive compensation and relocation benefits offered.

Benefits

Relocation benefits

Significant travel opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Neuroimmunology, particularly in Multiple Sclerosis.
• Over 15 years in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology sector with 7+ years in leadership.
• History of successful product launches and commercial impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive therapeutic ambitions and shape business strategy.
• Mobilize diverse teams and ensure execution excellence.
• Build relationships with external stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Business acumen

Negotiation skills

Coaching

Communication

Education

University degree in a scientific, medical, or business field

Advanced degree (Ph.D, MSc, MD, PharmD)

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 in the future. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

As a Squad Lead (Franchise Lead), you embody courageous and authentic leadership, consistently driven by enterprise thinking and a deep commitment to patient and customer centricity. You hold the crucial accountability for developing and delivering on the therapeutic or disease area ambitions, while maintaining an overarching enterprise mindset. Your responsibilities extend to shaping the business strategy, effectively mobilizing a diverse, cross‑disciplinary team, and cultivating an environment that champions exceptional execution excellence and speed. You foster a high‑performance team that is in service of achieving both squad ambitions and our vision.

We are seeking an outstanding senior leader who possesses extensive and current experience within the Neuroimmunology, in particular Multiple Sclerosis Disease Areas, coupled with a proven track record of demonstrable impact. Launch experience within these disease areas is highly desired, as is a history of successfully launching new products and a strong ability to collaborate effectively on an international scale, externally and internally.

Roche Squads are end‑to‑end accountable for the creation and delivery of compelling value propositions to our patients, customers, and the business at large. This accountability encompasses both the strategy development, execution and comprehensive oversight of all related work.

Opportunity

As the Squad Lead (Franchise Lead), you will embody a courageous and authentic leadership style, driving the therapeutic or disease area ambitions with an overarching enterprise mindset and a deep commitment to patient and customer centricity. This is a critical senior leadership role with end‑to‑end accountability.

• Hold crucial accountability for developing and delivering the therapeutic or disease area ambitions (specifically in Neuroimmunology/Multiple Sclerosis), ensuring alignment with enterprise portfolio priorities.
• Shape the business strategy and mobilize a diverse, cross‑disciplinary team ("Squad") to champion exceptional execution excellence and speed.
• Demonstrate inspirational leadership by proactively fostering empowerment, driving a high‑performance culture, and providing constructive feedback with courage and care.
• Excel in strategic development and systems thinking, analyzing complexity and connecting the dots across functions to develop strategies that drive sustainable growth.
• Act as the face of the disease area nationally, developing and nurturing significant external customer and stakeholder relationships with a strong presence in the field.
• Coach and mentor squad members (in alignment with Chapter Leads) to ensure individuals and teams are developing in line with the needs of the organization and their passion.
• Lead with an Enterprise Mindset, ensuring all Squad strategies, planning, and investment align not only to the Squad's but also to broader organizational priorities, including global collaboration (GPS, PI).

Who you are

We are seeking an outstanding, senior leader who is ready to take on the challenges of a dynamic, patient‑focused environment and drive significant impact in the Neuroimmunology space.

• You possess an extensive and current experience base within Neuroimmunology, particularly in the Multiple Sclerosis Disease Area, with a proven track record of demonstrable commercial impact and launch experience.
• You hold a University degree in a scientific, medical, or business field (advanced degree is preferred) and have over 15+ years of experience with 7+ years of leadership experience within the pharmaceutical/biotechnology sector.
• You are skilled at inspirational, collaborative, and people‑centered leadership, demonstrating the ability to influence cross‑functional and cross‑market stakeholders effectively.
• You consistently demonstrate strong business acumen, executive communication, and negotiation skills, leading to exceptional execution and impressive speed through rapid, innovative experimentation.
• You have proven ability to mentor, coach, and empower high‑performing teams, and you can confidently have crucial conversations with both courage and skill.
• You demonstrate strength in leading with ambiguity and possess experience in working with and leading a complex, cross‑functional team with diverse competencies and functional expertise.
• You excel at building and maintaining strong collaborative relationships and networks, both internally (locally and globally) and externally, to effectively prioritize and deliver on large, complex disease area ambition.

Preferred

• You hold an advanced degree (eg. Ph.D, MSc, MD, PharmD)
• You have direct people management experience and the ability to lead effectively in ambiguous situations
• You excel at building and maintaining strong collaborative relationships and networks, both internally (locally and globally) and externally

25% Travel needed for this role

Relocation benefits are available for this position

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.