Operations Quality Subnetwork Lead Product Partnering RDI
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Quality is a competitive advantage for Roche. It allows us to deliver high-quality products to patients, ensures our right to operate, and helps us create value through process excellence and continual improvement efforts. Quality is every patient’s right and every employee’s responsibility.
As the Product Partnering Sub Network Lead Rotkreuz, you are accountable for the quality of the products manufactured and for ensuring compliance with valid specifications and regulatory requirements. You are responsible for all end-to-end Operations Quality product disposition activities and related processes including IRM, change management, and related data analytics.
You will work closely with functional leaders and teams from Global Operations to develop strategies and set priorities in order to realize business ambitions. You will interact closely with the Chapters within Operations Quality to determine how to best allocate their members to Squads and teams supporting the Rotkreuz site. The Operations Product Partnering Sub Network Lead is a member of the Global Operations Quality Extended Leadership team (GOQELT).
You are a strong and visionary and catalyst leader who is ready to collaborate with our operations and manufacturing sites to deliver high quality products to customers and patients, ensures our right to operate and helps us create value through leveraging analytics, process excellence, Lean Manufacturing and continual improvement efforts.
Your opportunities
Drive business results and customer value
Responsible for ensuring that manufactured product in Rotkreuz meets Health Authority regulations, Notified Body requirements, Company standards and expectations. Establish and support inspection readiness to ensure successful outcomes. Prepare adequate and timely responses to any inspection observations and implement appropriate and thorough corrections, as necessary
Provide leadership and guidance to staff directing Quality functions, manage performance and development of direct reports to ensure achievement of organizational, and departmental goals and a productive environment
Contribute to the development of the annual budget, revise forecasts to meet business needs and monitor/control expenditures to assure efficient use of company resources
Empower and enable the Network
Develop and communicate organizational strategies, which ensure the GMP compliance of the site, continuous improvements and achievement of long term goals
Negotiate with Senior Leadership across the organization to influence decision making.
Lead, coach, and guide the organization. Manage performance and development of the members of the Quality Unit to achieve organizational goals and employee personal and professional growth in accordance to Servant-Leadership principles
Build a strong pipeline of talent and robust succession plans for key positions
Manage and administer people processes including selection, hiring, promotion, and compensation and provide training of personnel on company and department policies systems and processes
Enable the organization’s New Ways of Working
Act as role-model for Agile Leadership behaviors, as well as for our culture, mindset & behaviors as defined in We@RocheDiagnostics
Model behaviors to support the organization’s transformation to new, more Agile Ways of Working – e.g. new decision making/governance practices, collaboration, etc.
Everything you do should contribute directly to the achievement of our Roche Ten Year ambitions, including:
Who you are
Bachelor’s / Master degree in Life Science, Pharmacy or related subject. Advanced degree is considered an advantage with +3 years of demonstrated people leadership experience or equivalent experience
Experience in directing and leading large successful organizations with more than five years in the Medical Device/Pharma/Biopharmaceutical industry with working in Quality, Compliance, Regulatory and/or Validation, preferred or equivalent experience
Proved experience and knowledge of Quality operations and processes
Excellent knowledge of the European, US, China and International cGMP regulations and demonstrated ability to adequately interpret and implement quality standards
Demonstrated experience in European, US and other relevant Health Authority inspections
Locations
You are based in Rotkreuz.
At the Company's discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances.
As this position is part of a global organization, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.
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.
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