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
Our Global Pharma Strategy (GPS) team is the heartbeat of Pharma, setting the rhythm for Pharma, shaping Roche’s strategic direction, ensuring our portfolio delivers meaningful innovation to patients worldwide. By integrating scientific, commercial, and market insights, GPS drives enterprise-wide strategy, portfolio prioritization, and business model innovation to advance Roche’s leadership in the evolving healthcare landscape.
As part of the Portfolio, Strategy, and Insights (PSI) team within GPS, you will serve as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor in guiding Roche’s product, disease area, pharma, and corporate strategy. PSI delivers consistent, targeted, and technology-enabled insights that drive quality decision-making across the enterprise. PSI is composed of Advanced Analytics for Business Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Ecosystem Insights, Partnering Commercial Assessment Leads, and Pharma Portfolio & Strategy. These teams work together to provide unbiased, expertly curated intelligence to drive lifecycle management, commercialization excellence, and portfolio strategies.
Join our Global Ecosystem Insights (EI) team and be at the forefront of shaping Roche's Pharma strategy through market, customer, and patient centric insights. This team functions as internal consultants and strategists, partnering with commercial and cross-functional leaders, integrating data to activate insights-driven problem solving with foresight, in a way that the business can execute, in order to unlock value end to end, across the healthcare ecosystem and improve patient outcomes. If you’re passionate about using insights to drive decision making to make a real impact, solve never-before-seen challenges, and bring your bold perspective into action, this is the opportunity for you.
The Opportunity
- Strategic Thought Leadership: Provide thought partnership to senior leaders in GPS, Product Development and Research and Development to influence the development and execution of global commercial strategies across the value chain, from development through to commercialisation. Drive and influence therapeutic area (TA) business decisions and trade-offs by integrating and analyzing complex market dynamics, customer needs and competitive landscapes at the portfolio level, elevating insights across disease areas and brand strategies to optimize the portfolio and enhance patient outcomes. As a standing member of the TA Business Board, bring objectivity, consistency in methodology, deep market and customer understanding, and functional expertise to R&D investment decisions, accelerating the path to value.
- Build and Lead High Performance Teams: Lead and mentor a team of insights professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, recognition and growth mindset. Drive feedback, coaching and performance management practices. Attract, recruit and retain high quality talent. Champion the overall EI team vision and ensure the team is executing against their roles and responsibilities in service of achieving the vision and the overall Roche Pharma strategy. Develop systems and checks to ensure the team is consistently performing to the highest standard. Manage resource allocation within TA and partner as one team to ensure highest alignment with prioritization across the entire portfolio.
- Drive Cutting Edge and Customer-Centric Capabilities: Accelerate and catalyze the embedding of the voice of the customer (patients, healthcare professionals, and other key stakeholders) in TA, disease area and commercialisation strategies. Drive a customer-first mindset across the organization by ensuring that insights shape the development and optimization of Roche’s portfolio. Coach and mentor teams to utilize cutting edge technology, generative AI, forecasting techniques, analytics and data sources (including but not limited to primary and secondary research, syndicated data, CRM data, real world evidence) to understand and predict market evolution, customer attitudes, needs, behaviors and perceptions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influence: Collaborate with other cross functional teams, such as R&D, Product Development, Medical Affairs and with critical “must win markets”, to set the insights foundations and capabilities for the development of integrated strategies and solutions that deliver value for patients and the healthcare ecosystem.
Who You Are
We are looking for a professional with Bachelor’s degree; however, Masters or PhD degrees are preferred, and 15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry with increasing responsibility and a proven track record in commercial insights and strategy roles. You will bring:
- Hands-on operational experience within CVRM, with deep exposure to Obesity, MASH, Cardiovascular, and Type 2 Diabetes.
- Expertise in driving revenue forecasting, designing and executing market research plans, and synthesizing customer insights to effectively coach, empower, and direct team execution.
- Outstanding VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst and Coach) leadership skills: proven track record in building high-performing teams and ability to influence in a collaborative way within a cross functional environment
- Demonstrated history in leading and managing change on a large scale
Skills:
- Excellent strategic thinker and storyteller who understands how to translate complex market insights, data, and customer insights into actionable disease area, asset, and commercialization strategies.
- Methodological & Advanced Analytics Expertise: Demonstrated excellence in insights generation methodologies (primary & secondary market research), modeling & demand forecasting tools and methodologies, CRM data analytics & other internal insights sources, advanced analytics tools (AI, predictive modeling, machine learning) and management of external research agency tools and platforms to support commercialization and lifecycle planning and coaching team members to build their proficiency in these skills.
- Proven ability to lead, influence, and build strong partnerships across complex matrix environments while managing competing priorities.
- Experienced people manager and mentor with a demonstrated ability to diagnose issues, sound judgment in problem-solving, conflict resolution, and guiding cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate, collaborate, and present fluently in written and spoken English.
Join us in our mission to advance science and deliver hope to those who need it most
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.
