Project & Portfolio Manager - Sites Network
Roche · Basel
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The Position
Job Summary
As Portfolio & Programme Manager within Global Data & Digital Solutions (GDDS), you will play a strategic role in shaping, prioritising and orchestrating the global data and digital transformation portfolio across Sites Network.
GDDS is responsible for establishing trusted data foundations, scalable digital capabilities, and AI-enabled intelligence across Sites Network and SHE.
In this role, you will connect strategic ambitions with execution by establishing an integrated portfolio of initiatives, strengthening governance and ensuring transparency on priorities, investments, dependencies and business outcomes.
Working across global functions, sites, and RDT, you will foster alignment, facilitate informed decision-making and ensure that data and digital investments deliver measurable and sustainable business value.
The Opportunity
You will have the opportunity to shape and mature portfolio and programme management within a growing global function, bringing strategic focus, structure and transparency to a diverse landscape of data, digital and AI initiatives.
Strategic Portfolio Management
- Establish and manage an integrated GDDS portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic ambitions and business priorities across Sites & Sustainability.
- Develop and implement portfolio prioritisation frameworks based on strategic relevance, business value, resource capacity, dependencies and implementation readiness.
- Shape and maintain an integrated portfolio roadmap, identifying opportunities for synergies, standardisation and scalability across global functions and sites.
- Provide leadership with a consolidated view of portfolio priorities, investments, delivery progress, risks and strategic trade-offs.
- Programme Orchestration & Strategic Execution
- Orchestrate strategic, cross-functional programmes spanning data management, digital solutions, AI adoption and operational transformation.
- Translate strategic priorities into coordinated programme roadmaps, milestones, governance structures and measurable outcomes.
- Manage cross-programme dependencies, critical risks and escalations to maintain alignment and execution momentum.
- Partner with solution business owners, digital solution owners and RDT to coordinate execution while maintaining clear accountability for individual solution delivery.
Portfolio Governance & Value Realisation
- Establish and continuously improve portfolio and programme governance, including decision forums (Governance Council), prioritisation processes, reporting standards and escalation mechanisms.
- Define portfolio performance indicators and value realisation measures to assess strategic progress, delivery effectiveness and business impact.
- Develop transparent, decision-oriented reporting that supports leadership in making informed investment and resource allocation decisions.
- Monitor portfolio health, identify emerging risks and recommend corrective actions or strategic adjustments when required.
Stakeholder Alignment & Transformation
- Build strong partnerships across global business functions, sites and RDT to align priorities and foster effective collaboration.
- Facilitate cross-functional decision-making and resolve competing priorities in a complex, fragmented environment.
- Support organisational readiness and adoption by ensuring that programme objectives, business ownership and expected outcomes are clearly defined.
- Promote consistent portfolio and programme management practices while balancing global standards with local business needs.
Who You Are
- You are a strategic, structured and collaborative professional who thrives at the intersection of business strategy, technology and transformation. You bring clarity to complexity, influence across organisational boundaries and maintain a strong focus on business outcomes.
- University degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience in strategic portfolio management, programme management or business transformation within a global, matrixed organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to establish portfolio governance, prioritisation frameworks, integrated roadmaps and performance management practices.
- Proven experience orchestrating complex, cross-functional transformation programmes involving multiple business and technology stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of data management, digital platforms, analytics and AI, with the ability to translate technological opportunities into business value.
- Experience working with business functions and IT delivery organisations in agile, traditional or hybrid delivery environments.
- Familiarity with established portfolio and programme management methodologies such as PMI, or SAFe is an advantage.
Your Skills & Mindset
- Strategic thinker: Connects organisational ambitions with portfolio priorities and actionable execution plans.
- Outcome-oriented: Focuses on measurable business value rather than solely on project milestones and deliverables.
- Influential collaborator: Builds alignment and drives decisions through strong relationships and credibility, without relying on formal authority.
- Structured and analytical: Brings transparency to complex portfolios and translates information into actionable leadership insights.
- Pragmatic and adaptable: Balances global governance with the flexibility required in a decentralised organisation.
- Confident communicator: Engages effectively with senior leadership and diverse stakeholders, facilitating clear decisions and constructive dialogue.
- Transformation-minded: Embraces change, challenges established ways of working and continuously seeks opportunities to improve organisational effectiveness.
- You are motivated by the opportunity to shape a strategic global capability, connect data and digital ambitions with business execution, and contribute to lasting transformation across Sites & Sustainability.
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.