Scientific Outsourcing Manager — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 22 days ago
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.
- Your main responsibilities will be: Scientific Outsourcing Operations:
- Portfolio & Data Integration: Transition fragmented outsourcing into unified, portfolio-level external workflows and automated "sample-to-data" pipelines, ensuring secure, seamless, and frictionless access to advanced scientific capabilities.
Main responsibilities
- Your main responsibilities will be: Scientific Outsourcing Operations:
- Portfolio & Data Integration: Transition fragmented outsourcing into unified, portfolio-level external workflows and automated "sample-to-data" pipelines, ensuring secure, seamless, and frictionless access to advanced scientific capabilities.
- Performance Oversight & Risk Management: Utilize modern tracking tools to provide holistic visibility into external pipelines, actively monitoring vendor performance, optimizing data exchange, and proactively eliminating operational and scientific bottlenecks. Supplier Management
- Ecosystem & Partnerships: Leads a curated network of premier Contract Research Organisations (CROs) and tech partners, shifting relationships from tactical vendors to strategic, co-innovative allies.
- Performance & Problem Solving: Tracks partners via dynamic metrics (engagement, delivery, quality, cycle times) and champions rapid, proactive resolution of scientific and operational hurdles. Demand Coordination
- Predictive AI Models: Transitions to AI-supported forecasting to anticipate workflow volumes, capacity constraints, and intelligently match demands to optimal partners.
- Financial & Strategic Alignment: Integrates real-time financial tracking to maximize cost-efficiencies while dynamically aligning with shifting portfolio priorities and business-critical milestones. Governance & Compliance
- Quality & Data Integrity: Ensures all external workflows r
Company and context
- In Roche’s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED), we make transformative medicines for patients in order to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs.
- At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicines.
- Together, we create a culture defined by curiosity, responsibility, and humility, where our talented people are empowered and inspired to bring forward extraordinary life-changing innovation at speed.
- At the intersection of science and innovation, pRED’s Pharmaceutical Sciences (PS) organization enables the discovery and development of safe and effective therapeutics at optimal doses in relevant populations with a vision to power translation, continuously improve the accuracy of our predictions and accelerate the development of tomorrow's medicines.
- By seamlessly integrating our three core pillars—Translational Safety, Translational Pharmacology, and Biomarkers—we drive End to End asset development across the entire value chain, from target assessment to on-market support.
- Our mission is to continuously improve predictive accuracy, optimize dosing strategies for the right patient populations, and accelerate the development of tomorrow's safe and effective therapeutics. Purpose of the Position
- The Scientific Outsourcing Manager orchestrates the end-to-end external workflows that fuel our Pharmaceutical Sciences engine.
- Moving beyond traditional vendor management, this role treats external scientific expertise as a seamless, integrated extension of our team.
- By connecting internal capabilities with a global ecosystem of external partners in the laboratory space to assess safety and efficacy in the preclinical and clinical area, this role ensures that complex, multi-disciplinary workflows are executed with maximum velocity, data integrity, and compliance.
- As a champion of modern R&D, the position spearheads pRED- and cross-Roche collaborative network approaches to ensure the end-to-end implementation of R&D Excellence (RDE) solutions.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- Our mission is to continuously improve predictive accuracy, optimize dosing strategies for the right patient populations, and accelerate the development of tomorrow's safe and effective therapeutics. Purpose of the Position Your main responsibilities will be: Scientific Outsourcing Operations:
- Performance Oversight & Risk Management: Utilize modern tracking tools to provide holistic visibility into external pipelines, actively monitoring vendor performance, optimizing data exchange, and proactively eliminating operational and scientific bottlenecks. Supplier Management
- Performance & Problem Solving: Tracks partners via dynamic metrics (engagement, delivery, quality, cycle times) and champions rapid, proactive resolution of scientific and operational hurdles. Demand Coordination
- Financial & Strategic Alignment: Integrates real-time financial tracking to maximize cost-efficiencies while dynamically aligning with shifting portfolio priorities and business-critical milestones. Governance & Compliance
Notes and original content
- The Position
- Our mission is to continuously improve predictive accuracy, optimize dosing strategies for the right patient populations, and accelerate the development of tomorrow's safe and effective therapeutics.
- Purpose of the Position
- Your main responsibilities will be:
- Scientific Outsourcing Operations:
- Performance Oversight & Risk Management: Utilize modern tracking tools to provide holistic visibility into external pipelines, actively monitoring vendor performance, optimizing data exchange, and proactively eliminating operational and scientific bottlenecks.
- Supplier Management
- Performance & Problem Solving: Tracks partners via dynamic metrics (engagement, delivery, quality, cycle times) and champions rapid, proactive resolution of scientific and operational hurdles.
- Demand Coordination
- Financial & Strategic Alignment: Integrates real-time financial tracking to maximize cost-efficiencies while dynamically aligning with shifting portfolio priorities and business-critical milestones.
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Basel. 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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