Global QMS Portfolio Leader - Strategy & Release Management

Cora O'Neil Recruitment Agency; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 2,201,000 - 4,099,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Strategy Enabling Lead - mQMS Portfolio Manager to shape the strategic landscape for the DIA global quality management system, centralizing and prioritizing a global portfolio while ensuring compliant, end-to-end value delivery.

You will partner with Quality, Regulatory, Compliance, Training and Operations to translate complex requirements into roadmaps, align senior leaders, and optimize capacity within a matrix organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Engineering, Project Management, or related field
• 7+ years of portfolio, program, or enterprise-level resource and release management experience
• Recognized portfolio or project management certification (PMI-PfMP, PMI-PMP, SAFe LPM/Agile, PRINCE2) is highly desirable
• Proven track record of establishing formal portfolio governance frameworks, intake models, and capacity planning systems across matrixed enterprise organizations
• Demonstrated strength in leading prioritization and dependency mapping across high business impact pipelines
• Experience partnering with cross-functional SMEs (Quality, Regulatory, Legal, IT) to translate complex requirements into roadmaps

Responsibilities

• Establish and refine a unified global change and continuous improvement portfolio across the global quality management system
• Facilitate strategic portfolio prioritization sessions with executive stakeholders and functional leads; evaluate proposed change initiatives based on strategic impact, delivery risk, resource availability, and value generation
• Define, deploy, and enforce standard intake criteria (Definition of Ready and Definition of Done) to govern initiative submission, bundling, and deployment readiness
• Design and maintain the master portfolio release pipeline to prevent overlapping deployments, leverage synergies, mitigate resource bottlenecks, and reduce operational friction across the value chain
• Partner with operational, documentation, and training teams to map end-to-end workflows, evaluate capacity constraints, and establish a predictable release cadence
• Establish working structures across the full value chain to manage competing interests and drive trade-off decisions
• Deliver transparent portfolio health metrics, capacity analytics, dependency maps, and risk assessments to leadership

Skills

Portfolio & Strategic CapacityPlanning

Matrix Leadership & Executive Influenc

Strategic Vision

Analytical & Data-Driven Reporting

Cross-Functional Partnership

Process & Value Stream Optimization

Agile Governance & Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Engineering, Project Management, or related field

Job description

Roche is seeking a Strategy Enabling Lead - mQMS Portfolio Manager to shape the strategic landscape for the DIA global quality management system, centralizing and prioritizing a global portfolio while ensuring compliant, end-to-end value delivery.

You will partner with Quality, Regulatory, Compliance, Training and Operations to translate complex requirements into roadmaps, align senior leaders, and optimize capacity within a matrix organization.