Pharma Technical Finance Enabler – Supply Chain

The Position

Pharma Global Technical Operations (PT) is the organization that manufactures and delivers Roche’s groundbreaking therapies to 127 million patients around the world. PT is involved in producing every Roche medicine – from the development process through clinical trials – and continuing to product maturity. Our organization coordinates all aspects of production of Roche medicines in all disease areas and dosage forms.

As a Finance Enabler in Technical Operations you have the mindset of a business leader and entrepreneur. In this role you partner closely with key leadership areas of Pharma Technical Operations, such Supply Chain with enterprise wide reach to steer business outcomes. 

You understand Finance’s unique contribution when translating those key business priorities into financial strategies and outcomes to achieve our 10 years ambitions. You understand and ground the vision of Pharma into the business and finance communities and you play a key role in ensuring that financial transparency is established both for benefit realization and for sound prioritization of new opportunities. In this capacity you enable an organization that provides clarity and guidance to the business leaders. In order to deliver on this, you are fully engaged with the Finance community, shaping and transforming how Finance leaders and teams deliver greater impact to our business and mission to serve patients. You are a passionate coach and catalyst to the finance community and teams located in our manufacturing sites across the world. But not only – you’re a leader that energizes collaboration and enables network’s across boundaries, in service to the priorities at hand and Pharma mission.

In your role as Enabler leader, you are accountable to further evolve and develop the PF organization and to be an architect and catalyst to ensure outcomes and impact align with the Pharma mission and operating principles.

Here is why we think the Finance Enabler role is a fantastic opportunity to consider: 

• You relish the opportunity to be a key player in transforming PT towards new ways of working delivering on our Finance Ambitions.
• You understand your role as a leader as a visionary, architect, catalyst and coach (VACC), as well as the finance mindset and behaviors. You both role model those and foster them in the rest of the organisation. You are willing to let go of command and control and deliberately push decisions to the lowest level, empower teams to come up with innovative designs and solutions. 
• You understand that driving improvement and outcomes in PT as well as transforming Finance is not a straightforward path but that there are different levers to be pulled/pushed in order for complex systems to produce the envisioned results. You believe that skills and capabilities are as important as mindset, behaviors and culture and you work to deliberately create an environment of curiosity, learning and psychological safety for people to engage in that journey with you.
• You are an enterprise thinker and want Finance to be a driving force behind our Pharma ambitions. You role model this, hold people accountable for showing up in line with our finance mindsets and behaviors and are committed to break the silos, maximizing the intersection points in the value chain between R&D, PT and Commercial. In this capacity, you understand existing and new manufacturing technologies, our pipeline, commercial risks & opportunities for launched and pre-launch products and its regulatory and supply chain implications internal and external. 
• Thanks to your broad and deep finance knowledge and business acumen, you have proven your ability to work effectively across multiple business areas, global teams and key leadership areas in a fast paced VUCA environment. You engage with stakeholders and manage their expectations as well as influence them and gain support for your ideas. 
• You are a proven entrepreneur that can participate and take accountability for business priorities and understands the balance of monitoring performance, influencing priorities and leveraging data and facts to support business decisions.

You bring the following qualifications and skills:

• 7+ years developing teams of senior finance business partners, preferably within a matrix and/or global environment
• Proven knowledge of key Pharma Finance functions and a good understanding of pharmaceutical technical operations, commercial markets and product/process development
• Consistent track record influencing and building consensus within cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams in a matrix organization
• Ability to effectively synthesize large quantities of data/inputs and reflect them in a clear and concise manner – driving good decision-making
• Excellent organizational agility and interpersonal skills: knows how to get things done in a way that optimizes results, strengthens internal and external relationships, and puts the least pressure possible on resources
• You have an excellent business and financial acumen – consistently demonstrating managerial courage to ensure optimal business results. We need a go-getter with the capability to effectively run ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Moreover you bring multi-disciplinary experience within Global Finance function; and you understand production cost accounting as well as you know how to present to and influence senior management on complex business cases.

We need someone with a strong relationship management, and with the ability to influence senior partners and peers within the finance community.

This role will report to the Head of PT Finance and will be playing a partnering role with Supply Chain Business. The position is located in Basel. 

Who we are

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.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

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 also 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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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