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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

In Roche´s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organisation (pRED), we make transformative medicines for patients to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs. At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicine. Together, we create a culture defined by curiosity, responsibility and humility, where our talented people are empowered and inspired to bring forward extraordinary life-changing innovation at speed.

Strategy, Portfolio & Operations (SPO) is a newly built function that aims to encompass a number of business partner functions for pRED including strategy, portfolio, program and project management office, clinical operations, sites and laboratory management, capability development and external operations. SPO is set up leveraging a hub and spoke design with a clear mandate for core capabilities that are mirrored by the respective spokes in disease therapeutic areas and functions across pRED. SPO’s mission is to deliver excellence in operations, ensure patient centricity and enable high-quality decision-making. As a trusted partner across pRED, SPO contributes to pRED’s research and development excellence.

The Opportunity

This position will take ownership of the end-to-end process of managing training assignments across pRED (Pharma Research and Early Development), ensuring alignment between training content, job profiles, and organisational learning needs.

The role will act as a matrix leader for Cornerstone Administrators within SPO and work closely with learning specialists across DTA & GFs. A key component of it is fostering a learning community, involving collaboration with Learning Ambassadors to drive efficiency, enhance customer-centricity, and ensure the proactive assignment of relevant training.

• End-to-End Training Management: You will lead and oversee the entire training management process, ensuring that training assignments are optimized for the right job profiles, roles, and skills across pRED. You will develop, implement, and maintain an impact measurement strategy for all pRED trainings of the Chapter.

• Matrix Leadership: You will serve as the matrix leader for Cornerstone admins in SPO, providing strategic direction, support, and governance on the use of the Learning Management System (LMS), while ensuring consistent practices across teams.

• Drive collaboration with Learning Specialists: You will actively partner with learning specialists in DTA and Global Functions to define, design, and align training programs with organizational objectives, ensuring training relevance, compliance, and accessibility.

• Learning Community Development: You will build and nurture a dynamic learning community across pRED by engaging Learning Ambassadors. You will foster knowledge sharing, innovation, and best practice exchange to improve training impact and efficiency.

• Training Alignment and Optimization: You will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure training content is accurately mapped to job profiles and development needs, driving more effective learning outcomes. You will lead initiatives to proactively identify and assign the right training programs, considering both current and future skills and competencies needed across the organization.

• Efficiency and Customer-Centricity: You will continuously review and optimize training processes to enhance operational efficiency across Chapter while maintaining a customer-centric approach to support employee development and learning satisfaction.

Who you are

• You bring 5-8 years minimum of experience designing, implementing, and facilitating learning programs aligned with organizational goals.

• You demonstrate proven experience in leading training management processes within a complex matrix environment.

• You possess a strong understanding of Learning Management Systems (LMS), particularly Cornerstone, and the ability to provide guidance and governance on system use.

• You exhibit excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders, including cross-functional teams, learning ambassadors, and senior management.

• You showcase experience in building and maintaining learning communities or networks, driving collaboration and knowledge-sharing practices.

• You maintain a proactive mindset with the ability to drive training initiatives that align with organizational goals and future competency requirements.

Unwavering focus, collaborative teamwork and exceptional delivery are key behaviours that drive our mission of doing now what patients need next. Together, we can be transformative.

If you are passionate about contributing to a committed team and have the dedication to partnership and innovation, Roche is the place for you! Every role at Roche plays a part in making a difference in patients’ lives. Apply now and join us in making an impact

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.