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Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.
At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will independently manage end-to-end business analysis workstreams, tackling complex business problems with emerging ambiguity. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of the business domain, related technologies, and their interdependencies, applying advanced tools and techniques to translate requirements into strategic implementation plans. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to cross-functional teams, shaping stakeholder perspectives, handling process interdependencies, and significantly contributing to the design and validation of effective solutions. You will also mentor junior analysts and actively shape team processes, methodologies, and best practices within the broader Community of Practice.
The opportunity:
Within the Pharma Organisation Medical Affairs serves as the bridge between clinical development and the commercialization of medicines. The domain is increasingly focused on External Stakeholder Engagement, aiming to derive deep insights into unmet medical needs, treatment barriers, and patient perceptions of data. By synthesizing these insights, Medical Affairs shapes the organization’s overall strategic direction. As an IT Business Analyst in this space, you will support the digital transformation of how scientific evidence is generated, managed, and communicated to the global medical community.
Scope/(Content Leadership): Independently manages end-to-end business analysis workstreams, tackling problems with emerging ambiguity. Proficiently adapts a range of standard frameworks, mentors junior and intermediate BAs, and proactively shapes team ways of working and best practices.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Leads the analysis of business problems, performs thorough domain research, and drives root cause analysis. Accountable for delivering comprehensive requirements, contributing significantly to solution selection, and proactively identifying needs-solution discrepancies to propose creative improvements.
Stakeholder Management: Identifies a diverse range of cross-functional stakeholders and builds reliance through deep business understanding to act as a trusted advisor. Facilitates workshops, resolves conflicts, and proactively shapes stakeholder perspectives to strategically manage expectations and align them with project goals.
Impact/Strategy: Delivers impact that extends to a specific product, initiative, or cluster, contributing to domain goals by ensuring solutions provide demonstrable business value. Translates requirements into strategic implementation plans, influences tactical decisions, and contributes to long-term solution roadmaps.
Complexity/(Product Size): Works at a solution or product level involving multiple solutions, handling ambiguous requirements and systematically interacting with stakeholders across a broader product environment. Evaluates solution impacts considering both immediate and long-term business implications.
Business/Technical ability: Demonstrates a deep understanding of business and technical domains, technologies, and their interdependencies. Independently applies tools, principles, and techniques related to requirements, data, usability, and process analysis to manage interconnections and improve overall efficiency.
Application & Data Domain Mastery: Serves as the authoritative Subject Matter Expert (SME) by bridging the gap between core business processes and technical execution. Possesses a deep mastery of the application’s functional capabilities and the end-to-end information lifecycle—from initial data entry and internal processing logic to final output generation. Maintains expert knowledge of how information is transformed within the system and how it integrates with all related downstream dependencies.
Who you are:
5+ years of Business Analysis/Consultancy experience, with at least 3+ years in life sciences/pharma or the assigned business function being supported.
Proven experience independently managing end-to-end BA workstreams, navigating ambiguous requirements, and evaluating strategic solution options.
Demonstrated experience in translating requirements into strategic implementation plans that align with overall business objectives.
Advanced knowledge of Business Analysis/Consultancy concepts and practices, with intermediate expertise in at least one BA capability.
Strong proficiency in requirements elicitation and documentation, ensuring comprehensive requirements traceability and consistent change management.
Ability to independently apply tools, principles, concepts, and techniques related to requirements, data, usability, and process analysis.
Understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, and data visualization techniques and tools as well as understanding of relational databases and non-relational data structures
Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to challenge the status quo and propose innovative process improvements.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of prioritizing effectively and maintaining a "bigger picture" view of how technical components fit organizational goals.
What you get*:
*Please note that the compensation details provided pertain specifically to our offices in Poland (Warsaw & Poznan). For other locations, compensation packages will be discussed with the local Talent Acquisition Partner during the interview process.
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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.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.
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