Senior Project Manager

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. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. 

That's what makes us Roche.

Your Opportunity:

As Senior Manager - Business Consulting & Project Management  you will be part of the RSS Enterprise Capabilities Team and report to the Chapter Lead for Project Management. Are you a project management enthusiast with a background in business consulting and want to provide best in class project management and consulting services to partners across Roche? Then you are the candidate we are looking for. In this position you will be focusing on:

Engagement Delivery

In this role you will be responsible for successful Project or Program Delivery using agile or traditional project management methodology. Your work will include but will not be limited to

• Understand business goals, project value, and deliver defined benefits to the organization.

• Lead global project teams with clear roles, responsibilities, and resource alignment.

• Manage project success factors: reliability, compliance, efficiency, sustainability, and time to value.

• Build stakeholder relationships and understand organizational needs.

• Maintain realistic project plans, risk/issue logs, and ensure transparent project status.

• Present in governance meetings per project methodology and best practices.

• Track financials, seek approvals, and apply change management as needed.

Capability Building 

Be an active member of the Project Management Chapter by  

• Helping mature the project management capabilities, service offerings and community engagement leveraging latest developments and market dynamics

• Supporting the development of training content and toolkits for our team

• Actively managing your project management upskilling and applying your learnings during engagements and sharing them with your chapter colleagues

Who you are:

• Appropriate university degree and 10+ years of consulting  as well as project / program management experience

• Strong track record of motivating, coaching and developing individuals and teams, especially within a project set-up

• Strong knowledge in project management fundamentals (waterfall, SCRUM, SAFe and others) 

• Extensive experience in leading global/complex projects, organizing and optimizing resources and establishing clear priorities

• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated proficiency in influencing, negotiating, and effective global collaboration.  

• Ability to effectively communicate across various levels of a complex, matrix organization. Ideally OCM certification and experience

• Experience in financial management of projects, budgeting, actuals tracking and reporting

In exchange we provide you with:

• Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career. 

• Excellent benefits & flexibility:  Roche Annual Bonus, Monthly transportation allowance, Home Office set - up equipment, Health Insurance, Life/Accident insurance, Full salary when on sick leave for the first 9 days, Eyeglasses settlement, One-time payment options for various events in the life e.g. wedding, childbirth, Service Awards: We value loyalty with additional holidays and bonus payment, Work in a hybrid model (2 days/week from the office)

• A global diverse community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. Our leadership is very focused on people, creating a strong, inclusive culture, so you always have the chance to share your opinion.

Salary starts from 3200 EUR gross/monthly. Final salary depends on the successful candidate's level of experience, skills and qualifications.

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.