Project (R&D) Manager

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.

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The Position

Product Operations Lead (POL) — Project Management Chapter, Roche Informatics (RIS)

Potential Locations: Sant Cugat (ES), Vienna (VIE)

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Who We Are

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. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

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The Opportunity

You will be the operational backbone of a Life Cycle — the person who ensures that strategy translates cleanly into execution.

While leadership owns strategic decisions and empowered product teams own delivery, you make sure the connection between both is seamless. You bring visibility, reduce friction, and shield teams from operational overhead so they can focus on what matters: product discovery and delivery.

You'll work at the intersection of Portfolio Management, Business Operations, and the product teams — maintaining the single source of truth for investments, capacity, and risks, and ensuring executive leadership has decision-ready visibility without pushing bureaucratic overhead down to the teams.

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What You'll Do

Ensure strategic traceability across the Life Cycle

• Maintain a clean, continuous link between Portfolio and Life Cycle objectives, cascading strategic context to product groups.
• Enable empowered teams to make autonomous, high-quality decisions by providing the alignment and context they need.
• Establish consistent frameworks for measuring business outcomes — not just output — keeping a clear thread from strategy to product epics.

Be the single source of truth

• Guarantee a reliable, consolidated data source for the Life Cycle's investments, business viability, capacity, and risks.
• Partner with Portfolio Management and Business Operations to provide executive visibility, absorbing ad-hoc reporting requests to protect the teams.
• Maintain consistency across execution systems (Jira, Orion, Monday.com), ensuring tools reflect the total state of work without pushing manual overhead to the execution layer.