Project Leader - cobas ultra integrated solutions

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The Position

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.

At RocheDiagnostics, we are driven by our vision: innovating diagnostics, shaping healthcare, and changing lives. We are excited to see this vision come to life.

Roche Diagnostic Solutions is responsible for delivering on our Diagnostics Strategy. Within this, the Core Lab business area plays a key role: we strive to expand global access to innovative diagnostics and empower our customers to improve patient outcomes across the healthcare continuum.

By increasing access and setting new standards in core laboratory diagnostics, we provide efficient, end-to-end testing systems and high medical-value solutions, leveraging the full strength of our One Roche approach.

Our Core Lab Automation Lifecycle Leadership Team is dedicated to transforming patients' lives. We achieve this by pushing scientific boundaries, upholding ethics, and expanding access to innovative diagnostics. We focus on delivering robust software solutions that meet business and customer needs, building scalable infrastructures, and fostering collaboration in a complex multicultural environment. Our work directly supports Roche’s mission to create transformative diagnostics solutions and significantly improve patient outcomes.

As the Project Leader for cobas ultra, you will act as a cross-functional leader and a member of both the Automation Lifecycle Leadership Team and the corresponding Life Cycle Team (LCT). In this role, you will be fully accountable for building and implementing large-scale cobas ultra integrated solutions, setting clear direction for the global product development strategy from initiation through to the launch decision. You will collaborate closely with the cobas ultra program, corresponding Functional Partners linked to LCTs, and external delivery partners to deliver comprehensive, successful solutions on time, on cost, and on quality.

The Opportunity

• Strategic Direction & Solution Accountability: Set clear direction for the global product development strategy from initiation to launch, taking full accountability for the availability, quality, cost, success, and delivery of pre-defined milestones for cobas ultra modular integrated solutions.

• Cross-Functional & Partner Leadership: Guide, inspire, and mentor multidisciplinary, multisite teams and Squads, encouraging team accountability, high performance, a customer-focused mindset, and continuous learning.

• Stakeholder Alignment & Integration: Translate customer and business needs into priorities for the Project Team (PT), break down silos across networks, and resolve escalated bottlenecks and dependencies to ensure aligned delivery.

• Operational & Risk Management: Overcome operational challenges by proactively addressing risks, mitigating issues, driving alternative courses of action, and aligning development, engineering, and integration activities across internal teams and external delivery partners.

• Financial & Resource Governance: Approve and monitor the budgets, timelines, risk mitigation plans, and resources necessary to deliver defined project objectives within quality and time frameworks.

• Thought Leadership & Collaboration: Partner with other Project Leaders, Lifecycle Networks, and International Business Leaders (IBL)/Lifecycle Leaders (LCL) to address technical, regulatory, and business needs, ensuring cohesion with business-wide strategies.

• Global & Intercultural Engagement: Lead technical discussions regarding architecture, technology solutions, and development plans with internal and external partners, with a specific focus on engaging and building trust with Japanese delivery partners.

Who You Are

• Experienced Project Leader: Bring 6+ years of experience managing complex modular solutions, including software development and product launches, with a proven track record of effective collaboration in global environments.

• Technical & Industry Expert: Possess expertise in systems design, technology stacks, and large-scale modular architectures; familiarity with diagnostics industry practices, lifecycle processes, and global trends is an advantage.

• Interculturally Competent: Demonstrate strong intercultural sensitivity and adaptability, with a specific track record of collaborating with Japanese stakeholders and navigating Japanese business practices and cultural sensitivities.

• Strategic & Collaborative Communicator: Exhibit advanced communication, planning, decision-making, and influencing skills to align stakeholders, manage resources, drive product scope decisions, and establish common objectives and KPIs.

• Resilient & Program-Minded Leader: Display a strong problem-solving mindset and adaptability to overcome technical challenges, while maintaining the willingness to deprioritize your own projects to ensure the holistic success of the overarching program.

Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Rotkreuz. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

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.

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