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The Position
As the Strategy Enabling Lead – mQMS Portfolio Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the strategic landscape for the Roche DIA global quality management system, the mQMS. You will lead the strategic centralization, prioritization, and release management of our global pipeline and continuous improvement portfolio ensuring cohesive and end to end value chain implementation.
In this high-visibility role, you will bridge strategic vision and operational execution. You will orchestrate enterprise-level portfolio governance, align senior cross-functional leaders, and optimize capacity allocation—ensuring that every system initiative is sequenced to deliver maximum business value while minimizing organizational and system disruption, and maintaining compliance.
Operating at the heart of our matrix organization, you will apply rigorous portfolio management disciplines within our global environment. You will partner closely with subject matter experts in Quality, Regulatory, Compliance, Training, and Operations to translate complex compliance and system requirements into a structured, executable roadmap. Together with key leadership teams, you will balance resource constraints and turn our portfolio into a streamlined, business-enabling asset.
If you excel at bringing structure to multi-faceted portfolios, optimizing resource capacity, and leading strategic alignment in a matrixed environment, this role offers an exceptional platform to drive lasting enterprise impact.
The Opportunity
Enterprise Portfolio Governance & Strategic Alignment
- Establish, maintain, and continuously 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—including Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)—to govern initiative submission, bundling, and deployment readiness.
Centralized Scheduling & Capacity Optimization
- Design and maintain the master portfolio release pipeline to prevent overlapping deployments, leverage synergies, mitigate resource bottlenecks, and reduce operational friction across the full product/service value chain.
- Partner with functional operations, documentation, and training teams to map end-to-end implementation workflows, evaluate capacity constraints, and establish a predictable release cadence.
- Implement portfolio guardrails to group minor initiatives into structured release cycles, significantly reducing re-change frequency and training impact on all functions.
Matrix Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment
- Manage complex stakeholder networks across all relevant DIA Partners ( Customer Areas, R&D, Global Operations, Affiliates etc). You will represent the global continuous improvement portfolio at relevant senior/executive leadership forums.
- Serve as a strategic portfolio partner to Quality Process Owners, Quality Planners, and Senior Leadership, fostering shared accountability across an Agile matrix structure.
- Partner with Quality and Regulatory leaders who provide deep domain expertise, translating their compliance objectives into structured portfolio roadmaps and actionable release plans.
- Establish working structures across the full value chain to manage competing interests, negotiate resource trade-offs, and drive collaborative trade-off decisions.
- Deliver transparent portfolio health metrics, capacity analytics, dependency maps, and risk assessments to leadership teams to enable data-driven decision-making.
Continuous Improvement & Portfolio Infrastructure
- Establish and scale portfolio management tools, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to enhance real-time visibility, dependency tracking, and decision-making efficiency.
- Drive an organizational culture centered on portfolio simplification, process optimization, and disciplined execution.
Enable New Ways of Working
- Act as a role model for Agile Matrix Leadership behaviors (Vision, Architect, Coach, Catalyst) and support our global organizational culture and mindset.
- Guide teams through portfolio transformation, fostering adaptable, collaborative, and value-focused planning practices.
- Foster a work culture committed to customer focus, psychological safety, and operational excellence. Boldly innovate, break down functional silos, and constructively challenge the status quo.
- Ensure all portfolio activities directly align with and support our ten-year strategic ambitions to expand access to high-value solutions, grow our insight capabilities, and improve patient lives worldwide.
Who You Are
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field (Advanced degree/MBA preferred).
- You have 7+ years of dedicated experience in Portfolio, Program, or Enterprise-level Resource & Release Management within a complex, highly regulated environment (Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Pharmaceuticals, Aerospace, or Financial Services preferred).
- Certifications: Recognized Portfolio or Project Management certification (e.g., PMI-PfMP, PMI-PMP, SAFe LPM/Agile, PRINCE2, or equivalent process improvement certification) 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 or highly interconnected operational pipelines without direct line authority.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional technical/compliance SMEs (e.g., Quality, Regulatory, Legal, IT) to translate complex requirements into sequenced project roadmaps.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Portfolio & Strategic Capacity Planning: Deep expertise in portfolio management methodologies, pipeline prioritization, resource capacity modeling, and release train coordination.
- Matrix Leadership & Executive Influencing: Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills; proven ability to align cross-functional leaders around competing priorities.
- Strategic Vision: A resilient systems thinker who navigates high-ambiguity environments to shape long-term strategy and decisions guided by corporate goals.
- Analytical & Data-Driven Reporting: Strong aptitude for translating complex portfolio data into clear executive dashboards, dependency maps, and actionable risk analyses.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Demonstrated ability to build strong collaborative alliances with domain experts (e.g., Quality & Regulatory leads) to ensure portfolio execution meets external and internal compliance parameters without requiring direct domain expertise yourself.
- Process & Value Stream Optimization: Strong grasp of process mapping, release grouping, and workflow efficiency methodologies.
- Agile Governance & Adaptability: Proficiency in applying flexible, iterative governance structures to enterprise-scale systems and evolving business priorities.
Locations
This is an on-site/hybrid role, which can be based in Branchburg, Carlsbad, Indianapolis, Tucson, Mannheim, Cape Town or Johannesburg.
No relocation benefits are available for this position.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of New Jersey is $134,000 and $249,600. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.
Benefits
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Branchburg. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.
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.
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