Project Manager

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The Position

Roche Services & Solutions (RSS) aims at "transforming the way Roche operates.'' As a global organization of over 3,500 colleagues, we enable Roche to operate in a competitive and ever-changing business environment. We provide our partners with end-to-end business services and solutions, enabling them to focus on patient-centric activities. Embracing a OneRoche mindset, we leverage our global network located in Budapest (Hungary), Riga (Latvia), Chennai & Hyderabad (India), San José (Costa Rica), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), and our other sites to remain customer-centric 24/7 and co-create solutions together.

The Opportunity

As Project Manager you will be part of the RSS Project Management organization and report to the Chapter Lead for Project Management. Are you a project management enthusiast who acts as a business transformation driver, partners with leaders within our commercial organization and provides best in class project management services to partners across Roche? Then you are the candidate we are looking for.

In this role you will be responsible for successful Project Delivery using agile or traditional project management methodology. You will work with solutions teams for Marketing Technologies, who are tasked to deliver strategic transformation while sustaining and evolving ongoing solution operations, you will act as a strategic right hand, thought partner, and operational orchestrator to the Product Solution Owner. Drawing on a consulting or Chief of Staff mindset, you will navigate ambiguity by stepping into unstructured situations, creating order out of chaos, and establishing governance frameworks that drive proactive execution at the close attention of senior leadership. Your leadership style will be defined by the ability to lead without authority—influencing and negotiating across commercial, medical, IT, and regional stakeholders with exceptional political savviness and emotional intelligence to build consensus and mobilize teams toward transformation outcomes.

Your work will include but will not be limited to:

Engagement Delivery

• Project Management & Coordination: Coordinate daily project execution across the solution area by facilitating ceremonies (scrums, sprint planning), maintaining product backlogs, and actively managing action and decision logs.
• Inbound Funnel Control & Prioritization: Act as the primary project point of contact to capture, structure, and funnel heavy volumes of cross-program requests, ensuring the product teams maintain adequate focus on prioritized objectives.
• Cross-Program Coordination: Coordinate with other programs and incoming functional demands. Actively plan, track, and facilitate complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with overarching strategic timelines.
• Dependency & Interface Management: Actively manage and track end-to-end dependencies - both internal and external - while refining handover interfaces between product owners and other functions.
• Portfolio Transparency & Consistency: Provide structural project management to maintain project standards, ensuring clear, transparent, and connected tracking of the product's initiative portfolio for leadership visibility.
• Performance Reporting: Establish and drive consistent project KPI tracking and status reporting across the specific product area to ensure schedule and budget adherence across all parallel initiatives.
• Project Management capability development: Serve as a subject matter expert, providing project management delivery coaching to the product teams to embed "one way of project delivery" across the organization.

Capability Building 

Be an active member of the Project Management Chapter by  

• Continuously improve the project management capabilities, service offerings and community engagement leveraging latest developments and market dynamics
• Supporting the development of upskilling content and toolkits for our team
• Actively managing your own development
• Applying your learnings during engagements and sharing them with your chapter colleagues

Who You Are

You possess the following qualifications, experience and personal attributes

• University degree with 5+ years of project management experience; a background in business consulting or marketing technologies is highly advantageous.
• Strong knowledge in project management fundamentals (waterfall, SCRUM and others) and related tools
• Experience in leading global/complex projects, organizing and optimizing resources and establishing clear priorities
• Ability to motivate and lead a project team or team members if required
• Excellent communication skills in English, with demonstrated proficiency in influencing, negotiating, and effective global collaboration.  
• Ability to effectively communicate across various levels of a complex, matrix organization. Ideally exposure to an additional field related to project management, such as project change management, business consulting, methodology coaching.
• Experience in project management financials and resource management

In addition, the following skills will make you successful in your position and create the foundation for career growth at Roche:

• Customer centricity
• Collaborative ways of working
• Presentation and influencing skills
• Business acumen & systems thinking

In Exchange we provide you with 

• Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career. 
• Excellent benefits: Competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. 
• Flexibility: We also support flexibility to help you find your balance. Home office is commonly available (typically 2 office days/week on average). We create the opportunity for freedom in working, where your corporate and private life coexist in harmony.
• A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.

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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.