Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Disease Area Squad Lead, Breast Cancer (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
The Opportunity
The Disease Area Squad Lead as an agnostic steward of resources, leverages the expertise across the network to ensure integrated disease area outcomes are achieved through prioritization of business outcomes, optimising resource allocation and seizing opportunities to deliver on evolving DA needs and enable triple win outcomes.
Whilst being hired into a country affiliate, this role will be a member of the PI network, working in cross border collaborations, to realise and scale country outcomes by contributing to virtual, cross border, cross functional work package teams.
Main Responsibilities
Provides inspirational leadership in setting the vision and strategic ambition for the squad and assuming overall accountability for the execution of this vision/ambition by applying Outcome based planning principles (including budget oversight)
Creates an environment where diverse technical disciplines can align, develop and execute in order to pursue the affiliate/squad North Star ambition
Uses agile methodologies in the squad and constantly seeks for continuous improvement through team retrospectives
Ensures Customer (Internal and external) voice is included in their solutions through co creation and establishes a consistent and best-in-class customer journey experience through omnichannels
Provides VACC leadership and coaching of squad members, peers and more broadly as required, to ensure individuals and teams are fit-for-purpose and growing in line with their passion and the needs of the Organisation
In collaboration with other Squad Leads, champions synergies in overall prioritisation of all squad priorities, in line with Organisational resourcing capacity, enabling re-use and reducing duplication in delivering seamless end-to-end patient solutions partnering with Global and Pharma international
Aligns squad vision and ambition with regional and global outcomes, leverage the networked ways of working to identify synergies cross countries and maximize impact
End to end accountable for their respective squads, including outcome based plan and defining (and regularly assess) resources and capabilities required to achieve these outcomes
Responsible to collaborate with other squad leads to prioritize and mane trade off decisions between squads and portfolio prioritization
Works collaboratively, contributing and sharing expertise across the organisation to remove silos and duplication, ensure efficient use of similar skill-sets, and to ultimately support common pursuit of the organisational North Star
Who you are
Functional Capabilities:
Mobilizes teams and fosters partnership
Mentoring, Coaching and Developing people
End-to-end management of and accountability for the product backlog and outcomes through VACC leadership
Know how of the Disease area landscape and life cycle management
Full command of English is required with the willingness to learn French
Other Critical Capabilities:
Entrepreneurial, able to identify opportunities, to experiment, to take risks and disrupt the status quo
Borderless Collaboration: working closely with other countries/communities/teams, embracing the loop of “sharing and learning together” to co-create and upscale Ecosystem Solutions
Budget Management - for oversight and prioritization
Project Management - Leading projects and solutions in an impactful way
Influencing and Communication skills
Deep listening, Empathy and co-creating solutions
Stakeholder management
System Thinking: able to understand relationships, create purposeful strong internal/external collaborations with key stakeholders to mobilize systems towards change that enables better outcomes for patients
Demonstrated ability to live Roche Values, Leadership Commitments, VACC leaders and Operating Principles
Mindsets:
Enabler mindset leveraging the internal and external networks to create value
Growth mindset and customer centricity able to learn and quickly, take risks and experiment
Value Creation mindset, everything we do brings value to patients, ecosystems and Roche