Senior Program Manager

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The Position

This role will be responsible for driving PD China Asset Teams (Project Team/Working Group) that are focused on developing or improving new treatments for patients for Phase I - Phase III clinical trials and beyond. Sr. PM achieves this by delivering high-quality program/project management expertise and other high value services to enable team and project success. This position reports directly into the Head of Portfolio and Program Management (PPM), PD China.  

Crucially, this role oversees the portfolio and programs of Early Development, Center of Excellence (ED CoE) in PD China, to ensure China's unified voice is effectively delivered to global stakeholders. The Sr. PM acts as the central integration point among ED CoE cross functional members, pRED/gRED/PD stakeholders (mainly GPMs) and Pharma China colleagues where applicable (Commercial Portfolio Strategy Team, Medical Affairs Team, and Access Team).

The Sr. Program Manager is accountable for:

Value Maximization and Process Architecting

• Transforms complex uncertainties into actionable business options.
• Provides strategic influence to resolve high-friction misalignments among applicable cross-functional stakeholders (both local and global).
• Provides oversight on complex ED and selected late stage assets.
• Pressure tests development acceleration and de-risks the critical path.
• Leads risk identification and issue management.
• Acts as the business manager of the ED CoE development excellence board on local governance level alignment;
• Conducts trends analysis, sensitivity analysis, and value exercises.
• Establishes and iterates cross-divisional and cross-functional operating models.
• Drives process development and optimization.

Program and Project Planning

• Using PM knowledge to be strategic in planning short-, mid-, long-term project plans and identifying interdependencies.
• Developing, maintaining, tracking, and managing a high-quality, integrated project plan to enable accurate reporting and decision making.
• Managing the critical path of the project and key project risks with appropriate mitigations.
• Integrate consolidated China inputs into the E2E Asset Journey, so that China development strategy is aligned with global development strategy;

Team Management

• Applying project management expertise, methodologies, & department standards.
• Communicating effectively with team members, senior leaders, and the broader organization.
• Leveraging well developed interpersonal skills to build & maintain positive working relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
• Leads/contributes to organizational-level initiatives to realize organizational synergy.

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.