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Summary about Roche
At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

The Opportunity
In this position, you will be the leading figure and key point of contact for Roche Diagnostics’ for Solutions Marketing & the Roche Academy. As a member of the Marketing & Customer Insights Leadership Team, you will help drive the vision and strategic direction for marketing across Diagnostics. You will be a key partner to the Customer Areas, Affiliates and Regions with a focus of driving commercial impact. You will be responsible to shape the team, set the strategy, determine priorities, drive decisions and grow and develop team leaders.

Main tasks of the position

• Serve as a key member of the M&CI Leadership team, shaping the vision and strategic direction of the organization
  
• Lead a team of 4 Sub-Chapter Leads (Directors) and a broader team of ~70 individuals focused on driving promotional marketing and commercial excellence across all Diagnostics
  
• Collaborate with leadership in the Customer Areas, Regional Marketing and Affiliate Marketing to develop a strong partnership aimed at driving commercial impact
  
• Oversee the delivery of integrated, customer-centric marketing programs (product level and above product level) to differentiate Roche and drive customer action
  
• Drive impactful, competitive marketing and capability building programs to enhance commercial excellence across DIA
  
• Partner with RIS Marketing to develop an integrated marketing approach with our digital solutions
  
• Act as a key M&CI liaison with specific regions/clusters, maintaining awareness of business opportunities and priorities, identifying what works and what doesn’t, and optimizing marketing approaches
  
• Be an active coach and mentor to members of the Chapter to help them grow and develop in their career
  

Who You Are
We are looking for a professional with a degree in science, business or a related field and at least 10-15 years professional experience related to marketing strategies and business insights across Diagnostics, preferably global and local, multiple country experience.

You will bring:

• Strong leadership skills including previous experience leading big teams (20+) are essential.
  
• Deep / broad knowledge in marketing, digital marketing, strategic marketing and strong understanding of the diagnostics industry and diagnostics customers.
  
• Strategic thinking, communication, planning, and organizational skills are required, e.g., through experience successfully leading and executing strategic initiatives
  
• An open-minded, humble, and collaborative mindset
  
• An understanding of the commercial environment and ability to apply system thinking.
  
• Ability to foster positive partnerships through effective influencing, negotiation, and conflict management skills to achieve alignment up and down the organization
  
• Encourages experimentation and has the ability to turn this to scale with a focus on impact.
  

Leadership Skills:
You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective line-leadership for a global team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead your global team. team to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of Marketing & Customer Insights and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision.
The Chapter Lead Solutions Marketing & Roche Academy is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are:

• Put patients first
  
• Follow the science
  
• Act as one team
  
• Embrace differences
  
• Accelerate learning
  
• Simplify radically
  
• Make impact now
  
• Think long term
  

This role could be based in Rotkreuz, Switzerland or Pleasanton, CA (US).

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 Diagnostics International in Rotkreuz is a leading provider of diagnostic systems solutions, and the largest manufacturer of fully automated in vitro diagnostic systems in Switzerland. We are more than 2’700 passionate colleagues from over 65 nationalities. Find out more about our site in Central Switzerland, here.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.