Functional Portfolio Head - RDT Strategy, Portfolio & Governance

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 483,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Car or Car Allowance

Multisport

Annual bonus

Flex Location

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Functional Portfolio Head for RDT Strategy, Portfolio & Governance in Warsaw. You will steer governance for a large, cross-portfolio function, translating business priorities into strategic initiatives and ensuring robust value realization across global functions.

The role emphasizes enterprise thinking, risk management, and data-driven decision making. You will partner with senior leaders to align budgets, drive strategic portfolio management, and optimize resource deployment

Qualifications

• Strategic & analytical acumen with enterprise focus.
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into portfolio actions.
• Experience in digital/AI technologies and data trends.

Responsibilities

• Drive governance for the functional portfolio and allocate budgets across portfolios.
• Oversee sub-function governance to realize business cases and track benefits.
• Balance investments across products and services to keep the portfolio resilient and outcome-focused.
• Identify and manage portfolio risks to minimize delays and budget overruns.
• Collaborate with Office of the CDTO to ensure value delivery and corrective actions.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Digital translator

Relationship management

Communication

Enterprise mindset

Education

Degree in IT or related field

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 Functional Portfolio Head - RDT Strategy, Portfolio & Governance

The Functional Portfolio Head is a high-impact leadership position within the Strategy, Portfolio & Governance (SPG) function of Roche Digital Technology (RDT). This role ensures that RDT invests in projects, products, and initiatives that drive the highest business value, accelerating the speed of getting medicines to patients through enterprise thinking and cross-portfolio awareness. Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Portfolio Management, you serve as the strategic driver for a large, highly complex RDT functional portfolio, transforming business priorities into a lean, high-impact technology reality. You are responsible for establishing robust governance frameworks at the functional level and ensuring the effective delivery of strategic projects across global Functions to achieve our vision: “Doing now what patients need next.”

The Opportunity

• Strategic Alignment & Enterprise Thinking: Connect to Business Strategy: Drive a common understanding of the Business and RDT strategic objectives and "connect the dots" across the Business and Enterprise investments.
• Guide Strategic Alignment: Work with function leaders to translate business priorities to function or enterprise initiatives based on established guardrails.
• Business Domain Expertise: Use strategic agility to help teams focus on business value while aligning with the strategic initiatives of both business and RDT leadership.
• Drive Common Value Framework: Partner with RDT functions and business stakeholders to define strategic priorities and ensure the Value Framework is used consistently to prioritize work.

Governance & Investment Management

• Drive Strategic Portfolio Management: Lead the governance body for your specific function, aligning senior business and RDT leaders on how to allocate the functional budget across business or enterprise portfolios.
• Drive Functional Portfolio Management: Oversee governance at the sub-function level, ensuring that critical business cases are realized and that intended benefits are tracked.
• The "Strategic Equalizer": facilitate balancing investments across products and services within your function, ensuring the portfolio remains resilient and focused on outcomes.

Portfolio Execution and Transparency

• Manage Portfolio Risks: Proactively identify, highlight, and enable risk management across the portfolio to minimize project failures related to delays or budget overruns.
• Value Realization: Together with the Office of the CDTO, track and ensure value delivery from strategic projects and recommend corrective actions when necessary.
• Enable Resource Optimization: Oversee that resources are effectively deployed and tracked to optimize value-driven investments.
• Operational Integration: Collaborate with Business Operations Leads to ensure high data integrity for initiatives, financial forecasting, and resource management.

Who you are

• Strategic & Analytical Acumen
• Pragmatic Thinker: Strong analytical skills with a focus on outcome-driven, sustainable solutions.
• Digital Translator: Proven experience as a digital product owner or "digital translator" who has delivered digital use cases including advanced analytics and AI technologies.
• Relationship Management & Influence: Demonstrated ability to build constructive and effective relationships with business and tech leaders, developing strategy in a consultative manner.
• Experience managing cross-functional partner relationships in a complex organization, with the ability to influence at the most senior leadership levels.
• Communication & Execution Master Communicator: Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex investment data to the Corporate Executive Committee.
• Enterprise Mindset: A commitment to the "One Roche" philosophy, prioritizing the success of the entire organization over individual functional silos.

Other Qualifications & Experience

• Professional Experience: 10+ years of leadership experience in global technology and/or consulting organizations, with at least 5+ years specifically in leadership roles encompassing Portfolio Management.
• Technical Breadth: Up-to-date knowledge of digital technology trends (AI, Data, Cloud) and a passion for translating them into new ways of working.
• Financial Acumen: Strong grasp of IT governance, finance, and cost management.
• Industry Context: Experience within the Pharmaceutical or BioTech industry is highly preferred.
• Education: Degree in IT or a related knowledge area.

What you get

• Salary range 23,300 - 43,300 PLN gross based on the employment contract.
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance (target 20%).
• Car or Car Allowance.
• Private healthcare (LuxMed package), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter).
• Take Time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company equipment and many more!

Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 280,000.00 PLN - 520,000.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to both individual and company performance. This position also offers an attractive benefits package. Learn more about how we reward our employees at Roche.

This job is posted in multiple locations. If you’re applying for the role in an alternative location where pay transparency regulations apply, the Talent Acquisition Partner will share the local pay information with you ahead of any business interview.

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.