Procurement Partnering Lead IT

Roche; Basel; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Procurement Partnering Lead within the Global Procurement organization. The role focuses on stakeholder centricity, enabling procurement solutions, and building strategic partnerships with senior Roche stakeholders to drive value and ensure compliance.

As a partner to business functions, you will shape procurement strategy, anticipate needs, and advocate for procurement offerings while collaborating across chapters to deliver measurable savings and performance outcomes.

Qualifications

• University degree in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of procurement or equivalent leadership experience.
• Proven track record with senior stakeholders in a matrix organization.
• Fluent in English at business level.

Responsibilities

• Act as a business function expert to provide procurement insights and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain targeted procurement strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Be a procurement ambassador and primary contact for senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with global procurement networks to drive value and compliance.
• Influence decision-making and enable adoption of procurement services and solutions.

Skills

University degree

Procurement leadership

Stakeholder management

English (business level)

Strategic partnering

Education

University degree in business or life sciences

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

This role sits within the Global Procurement Businerss Partnering chapter which is focused on enabling greater stakeholder centricity in GP by gathering and sharing business insights and feedback, promoting procurement solutions and services and simplifying partnering with procurement for the business.

The Opportunity

As the Procurement Partnering Lead RDT, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus on stakeholder engagement and satisfaction. Thanks to your deep ambassadorial and partnering skills you will nurture the relationship with key and senior internal Roche business stakeholders to become a strategic partner and advisor, able to influence decision making and/or remove barriers relating to procurement services and solutions. Based on your specialized and in-depth knowledge about your business stakeholder’s strategy, priorities and needs, you proactively identify and anticipate business needs and opportunities (push and pull opportunities) to increase overall procurement value delivery to internal Roche business stakeholders. You will work closely with relevant capabilities of all chapters in procurement, to develop a targeted procurement business strategy that prioritizes and focuses efforts to drive value back to the business function and achieve overall targets and performance metrics. You will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, including but not limited to these core responsibilities:

• You act as a business function expert using a deep understanding of business strategies and objectives to provide business-related insights and opportunities to the procurement organization to enable and develop effective and desirable procurement offerings targeted at the applicable business area.
• You are a strategy developer and value driver of business-targeted procurement strategies, with accountability for creating and maintaining a holistic, long-term, and targeted plan to support the applicable business function’s success, including prioritization of business support requirements and proactively proposing and, where feasible, securing buy-in / sponsorship (at business senior management level) for applicable procurement services and solutions that deliver on the applicable business area’s value objectives like savings and other business area-targeted metrics.
• You are a Procurement ambassador and business partner, acting as the primary point of contact for specific senior stakeholders (upper management) focused on representing and leveraging the procurement networks to deliver for and optimize stakeholder experiences and outcomes, including identifying procurement opportunities, promoting solutions, and advocating for compliance (i.e., with policies, tools, processes) and adoption.
• You will work with your team, the broader Global Procurement organization, networks, and squads/project teams to ensure prioritization and focus on delivering or supporting both project and foundational work.

Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including curiosity, passion, an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

Who you are

You hold a university degree, with a business or life science degree preferable and have 10+ years experience with procurement (multi-category) or relevant sales or customer management leadership experience, ideally in a matrix organization.

You have demonstrated success in building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with senior stakeholders.

You have experience in or in depth knowledge about the relevant business area (Roche Digital Technology Pharma Medicines).

You possess demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts and ideas to others and effectively influence and negotiate with senior-level stakeholders and leadership to make decisions, endorse/use a capability offering; negotiate with senior staff at external partners or vendors (where applicable).

You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for the business functions by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same.

You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

You have an enterprise mindset to work with colleagues across procurement, business and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand business needs, and connect the dots.

You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

You are fluent in English to a business level. Sales and/or business development experience is preferred.

Join our team and lead the transformation of procurement through collaboration and strategic business partnering.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100000 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. Lets build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe its 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.