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This role is based in Pharma Technical Operations Technology (PTT), an organization that is responsible for ensuring Pharma Technical Operations (PT) stays at the forefront of technology in our current and future facilities. PTT, composed of global MSAT and Engineering, realizes new assets for the PT manufacturing network of drug substance, drug product, and device industrialization facilities. You will have the opportunity to build manufacturing facilities that deliver life saving medicines to patients.

The Opportunity

As a project manager, within the capital delivery group, you will be responsible for leading large and/or complex facility/equipment improvement projects within our China manufacturing network (Shanghai ). You could be asked to deliver projects at our international sites.

• Build and lead the project team, motivating them through your strong communication and leadership skills with clear decision-making to maintain project flow. Set the example of collaboration with your relationship with the User Team Lead and other key customers.
  
• Champion both design and construction safety as a key priority, by ensuring the Safety, Health, and Environment team is engaged throughout the lifecycle and by your active leadership.
  
• Accountable for fiscal control of the project through managing scope and schedule of the capital project within the agreed business case, by ensuring that the team stays beholden to the execution strategy and by ensuring the funding strategy aligns with the execution plan.
  
• Responsible for presenting to the Steering Committee on a recurring basis, and will lead and engage with site leadership, finance, and senior executive sponsors during funding requests.
  
• Accountable, with support from global procurement, for sourcing and selecting all major suppliers required to deliver the project[a].
  
• Responsible for delivering from early concept, through design, construction and commissioning and qualification of the project. Ensuring that Roche’s intent is met through active engagement with suppliers, being present both at the project and in the construction site, and not relenting until the project’s business intent is actually met.
  

Who you are:

• M.S. in engineering, architecture, or construction with extensive experience in successfully managing projects in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry, with experience in managing large, complex projects, some preferably in an international environment. A MBA is a plus.
  
• Known for your exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills in capital project delivery.
  
• Proven expertise in effectively applying and/or developing advanced project management tools and methodologies.
  
• Broad understanding of the principles of various engineering disciplines, in-depth understanding of one engineering discipline directly related to Roche core business of manufacturing.
  
• Deep understanding of risk-based qualification and lean construction methodologies
  
• Special knowledge requirements include biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical processes and facility design approaches, plus solid understanding of Pharmaceutical c GMP requirements.
  

Ready to make a difference? Apply now!

Please note that we will not offer relocation benefits for this role.

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche China consists of the full value chain of Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics fields, from early research, clinical development, manufacturing to commercialization. With more than 7,000 employees, Roche China is now working to develop itself into Roche's third global strategic center after Basel and San Francisco, and making sustained efforts to fulfill its long-term commitment to China, so as to meet Chinese patients’ unmet needs.