Head of Operational Excellence for Global Quality — Roche
- Location
- Mississauga
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
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.
- 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.
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive quantifiable process optimization, deploy Lean principles, contribute to financial targets with clear accountability, and embed a sustainable culture of Continuous Improvement through the following key responsibilities:
- System Deployment: Lead the rollout of Lean standards, identify measurable productivity and cost-optimization initiatives, and embed the Lean Leadership program to act as a coach and drive proactive certification of Quality Leaders.
Main responsibilities
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive quantifiable process optimization, deploy Lean principles, contribute to financial targets with clear accountability, and embed a sustainable culture of Continuous Improvement through the following key responsibilities:
- System Deployment: Lead the rollout of Lean standards, identify measurable productivity and cost-optimization initiatives, and embed the Lean Leadership program to act as a coach and drive proactive certification of Quality Leaders.
- Capability Building: Champion and sustain a network-wide training model to develop, certify, and mentor future Lean Practitioners.
- Quality Units acceleration and alignment: Anchor all Operational Excellence activities to target behavioral shifts, design the strategic roadmap to build a core Global Quality operational excellence community, and establish a collaborative hub-and-spoke governance framework to align central strategy with embedded chapter and Site resources.
- Roadmap Execution: Translate Quality and business objectives into concrete, measurable operational excellence action plans focused on delivering immediate, tangible performance improvements for defined deliverables.
- Process Optimization: Diagnose bottlenecks across workflows, deploy Lean and digital methodologies to streamline processes, and scale standardized methodologies, toolkits, and performance KPIs across chapters leveraging existing quality units structures.
- Hands-On Problem Solving: Personally lead and facilitate high-priority, cross-functional root-cause analysis initiatives to dismantle complex, systemic operational bottlenecks and ensure robust process confirmation.
- Behavior shifts and change management: Act as a champion for quality units mandated cultural shifts, integrate these into day-to-day routines across all levels (including the Global Quality leadership team members), and provide direct, hands-on field coaching and mentorship for embedded resources and broader leadership.
- This role requires approximately 20% international travel per year, primarily to Europe Who You Are We are looking for an execution-o
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters. A healthier future.
- Your primary, immediate mandate will be to support and accelerate the Quality Unites Us program by executing, scaling, and driving the tangible behavioral shifts and project milestones already defined by the Quality roadmap.
- This role requires approximately 20% international travel per year, primarily to Europe We are looking for an execution-o
Notes and original content
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- The Position
- A healthier future.
- The Opportunity
- This role requires approximately 20% international travel per year, primarily to Europe
- Who You Are
- We are looking for an execution-o
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What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Mississauga. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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