Senior Engagement Coordinator and Team Lead
Roche · Budapest
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.
The Position
Senior Engagement Coordinator and Team Lead
In this dual role, you will be working as a Senior Engagement Coordinator while leading a team
of Engagement Coordinators across different seniority levels. You will leverage deep healthcare
compliance expertise to drive the end-to-end operational planning and execution of Roche
events and engagements. Partnering closely with internal and external stakeholders, you will
ensure seamless compliance management for healthcare professionals (HCP), patient
partnerships (PP), and healthcare organizations (HCO) interactions, as well as Grants,
Sponsorships, and Donations (GSDs), in strict adherence to local regulations while overseeing
event logistics and coordination as needed.
The Opportunity
- Lead and coach an operational team, championing professional development, providing regular feedback, and cultivating an inclusive, high-performing environment.
- Oversee end-to-end compliance operations for external collaborations—including sponsorships, grants, and advisory partnerships—ensuring rigorous adherence to global healthcare policies and standards.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to cross-functional partners and engagement owners, delivering practical policy interpretation and proactive guidance on compliant collaboration practices.
- Drive operational and financial governance, supervising purchase orders, spend tracking, contract administration, and invoice reconciliations with high accuracy.
- Orchestrate event operations and cross-functional project squads, managing resources, budgets, and logistics for virtual and face-to-face scientific and medical events.
- Champion operational excellence and continuous improvement, analyzing post-engagement outcomes and refining workflows to ensure scalable, customer-focused delivery.
Who You Are
You are an empowering, organized leader who combines strong healthcare compliance acumen with a passion for developing others and establishing trusted stakeholder partnerships.
- Experienced people manager: You bring a proven track record of leading and developing teams in operational, shared-services, or matrixed global settings.
- Healthcare compliance insight: You possess 7+ years of experience in healthcare compliance, external partner engagements, procurement, or event operations, with practical knowledge of industry frameworks (such as EFPIA or Sunshine Act reporting).
- Strategic communicator & influencer: You build high-trust working relationships across diverse cultures, communicating with diplomacy and the confidence to guide partners toward compliant solutions.
- Process & systems aptitude: You demonstrate comfort with enterprise management platforms (such as SAP, procurement tools, or CRM/compliance tracking applications) and data accuracy.
- Educational background: You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Law, Finance, Event Management, or an equivalent combination of education and substantial industry experience.
- Global readiness: You are fluent in English and open to occasional travel to support team members and global events.
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: competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. We also ensure flexibility, to help you find your balance: home office is a common practice (2 office days/week). We create the opportunity for freedom in working, where your corporate and private life coexist in harmony.
- A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. That’s what makes us Roche.
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.