Design and Consultancy Manager — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- 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.
- Key responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Development: Recruit, mentor, and coach a team of Operational effectivenss consulants, ensuring they have the tools, skills, and career pathing necessary to excel.
Main responsibilities
- Key responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Development: Recruit, mentor, and coach a team of Operational effectivenss consulants, ensuring they have the tools, skills, and career pathing necessary to excel.
- Provide guidance and critical input in to strategic review of LTT tasks and roadmap, including org structure, methodologies and team responsibilities.
- Portfolio Management and process optimization:
- Hosting weekly "Sync" meetings to review the status of all active projects and re-allocating budget or staff as priorities shift.
- Auditing current workflows to remove "red tape," selecting PM software/tools, and updating project templates (charters, Gantt charts, etc.)
- Escalation for high priority risks and issues related to TS, Logistics and Commercial (Sales and Marketing).
- Engage with Senior Management across the business to understand and align on priorities across the Customer Journey with respect to capacity and capability to deliver on an ongoing basis
- Provide tactical input into the introduction of new products and services.
- Synthesizing complex project data into executive-level dashboards that highlight KPIs, burn rates, and milestone achievements.
Company and context
- Methodology & Governance: Define and enforce the organization’s soltuion design and optimisation framework to ensure consistency and quality across the portfolio.
- Strategic Alignment: Partner with senior leadership to prioritise projects that align with the company’s long-term goals and ROI targets.
- Portfolio Health: Maintain a bird’s-eye view of all active projects, identifying cross-project dependencies, systemic risks, and resource bottlenecks.
- Stakeholder Orchestration: Act as the primary point of escalation for high-level stakeholders, ensuring transparent communication regarding project status and organizational impact.
- Active member of the Lab Transformation Leadership team, contributing to defining the strategy of the team. Key activities:
- The day-to-day rhythm of the role involves high-level oversight and tactical support. People Management:
- Conducting 1-on-1s, performing skill-gap analyses, and resolving internal team conflicts or workload imbalances.
- Define career objectives (in Workday) for Team Members and monitor progress; providing feedback on competencies.
- Oversee development of new joiners and existing members of relevant regional team.
- Accountable for ensuring team have access to required delivery methodologies and tools
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- Active member of the Lab Transformation Leadership team, contributing to defining the strategy of the team.
- The day-to-day rhythm of the role involves high-level oversight and tactical support.
- Responsible for project and program management as a product
- Facilitating "Pre-Mortems" for high-stakes projects and intervening when a project is at risk of "scope creep" or failure. Decision making authority:
- Contribute to defining LTT strategy. Oversee prioritization of
Notes and original content
- The Position
- Key activities:
- People Management:
- Risk Mitigation
- Facilitating "Pre-Mortems" for high-stakes projects and intervening when a project is at risk of "scope creep" or failure.
- Decision making authority:
- Contribute to defining LTT strategy.
- Oversee prioritization of
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?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Roche during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Basel?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Basel can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Basel's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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