Global Lead Project Management

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

The Global Lead Project Management drives initiatives to optimize methodologies for project initiation and execution, developing project organizations and defining capability requirements across different project types and phases. This role collaborates closely with global functions in Project Control, Project Compliance, and Contracting Management to establish globally applied guidelines, methods, and metrics for CAPEX project management. Serving as the central link between all engineering functions, this position aims to increase efficiency and flexibility, expand best practices, and manage resources in project execution.

Key Responsibilities

This role encompasses leading optimization initiatives for project initiation and execution, maintaining Project Practices guidelines for Project Governance, Stakeholder Management, and project phases, and leading the Global Expert Panel for Project Management. It involves contributing to the improvement and harmonization of project management principles and standards as a proactive member of the Engineering Council, while also enforcing and fostering a global project management community. Further responsibilities include developing right-sized project organization and capability standards, aligning stakeholder engagement with project phase needs, and defining principles for project specification and user requirement definitions. The role also involves developing and implementing cost estimation practices for complex large-scale projects, driving project and process improvements based on Project Closure Reports and Lessons Learned, and bringing expertise in structured problem-solving and continuous improvement to the engineering organization. Finally, this position involves benchmarking with other companies and industries to advance project management intelligence and the use of data for predictions and simulations.

What you bring

Engagement Level: Must have a profound passion for engineering and capital projects content and methodologies.

People Skills: Excellent leadership in a matrix organization, strong and clear communication across all organizational levels, ability to build lasting relationships, and exceptional openness and understanding for other cultures.

Other Skills: Strong systematic thinking, high ability to self-reflect, high capability to develop and coach organizations on specific practices, ability to build up and shape communities, and a high sense of and desire for continuous improvement.

Academic Background: University level education (MSc or equivalent or higher) in a scientific or technical field.

Job Experience: At least 15 years in major capital investment projects, ideally both on owner and contractor side, in the pharmaceutical, construction, or (petro-)chemical industries. This includes full proven project management responsibility in at least one major ($>$CHF100m) capital investment project for production operations, international experience across several companies and cultures, experience in leading a center of excellence in Project Management, and line management experience.

Ability to Travel: Up to 20% international travel required.

Languages: Professional English, willingness to learn German, and other languages are helpful.

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.

About the company

606018 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics.

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