Associate Category Manager — Roche
- Location
- Sant Cugat del Vallès
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 27 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.
Company and context
- Reporting Line: Directly reports to the respective Category Lead within the Category organization.
- Wider Team and Stakeholders: Collaborates closely with Category Managers, Sourcing Managers, Delivery Managers, Finance, Legal, and external market intelligence providers.
- Participates in a global ACM Community of Practice (CoP) coordinated by the Category Integration & Excellence Lead to ensure consistency of methodologies, reporting standards, strategic planning processes, and cross-category collaboration.
- Role Type: An Individual Contributor role in support of the allocated Category, focused on strategic enablement, market data intelligence, and stakeholder management.
- Impact: You drive category compliance, data integrity, and strategic execution across the global operations network. Specifically, you are accountable for:
- Strategy & Pipeline Support: Collation of supplier, market, and internal business data to help formulate the long-term Category Strategy and build a proactive pipeline of future initiatives.
- Strategic Initiative Deployment: Supporting Category Managers, Project Delivery, Delivery, and Sourcing Managers in executing and deploying complex projects in strict compliance with global standards and procedures.
- Negotiation & Contracting Preparation: Supporting contract drafting and vendor negotiations for strategic, key, or bottleneck suppliers by delivering comprehensive analytics, fact-bases, and market benchmarks.
- Strategic Sourcing: Support selected high-value strategic sourcing initiatives and complex RFx activities to convert pipeline targets into realized business value.
- Reporting & Analytics: Collaborating with data analytics experts to generate Category-specific insights, generating monthly spend/savings metrics, and conducting data validation to safeguard governance.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- At Roche, we do now what patients need next.
- Impact: You drive category compliance, data integrity, and strategic execution across the global operations network. Specifically, you are accountable for:
- Implementation Support: Converting strategic outcomes into clear category guidance documents and support materials to ensure category strategies can be effectively implemented across the organization.
Notes and original content
- The Position
- About Our Team
- The Opportunity
- Impact: You drive category compliance, data integrity, and strategic execution across the global operations network.
- Specifically, you are accountable for:
- Who you are
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 Sant Cugat del Vallès. 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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Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Basel?
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