Senior Ideation & Project Manager

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The Position

Senior Ideation & Project Manager – RSS Enterprise Capabilities

Roche India – Roche Services & Solutions

Hyderabad

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.

Roche Services & Solutions (RSS) aims at "transforming the way Roche operates.'' As a global organization of over 3,000 colleagues, we enable Roche to operate in a competitive and ever-changing business environment. We provide our partners with end-to-end business services and solutions, enabling them to focus on patient-centric activities. Embracing an OneRoche mindset, we leverage our global network located in Budapest (Hungary), Riga (Latvia), Hyderabad & Chennai (India), San José (Costa Rica), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), and our other sites to remain customer-centric 24/7 and co-create solutions together.

As a Senior Ideation & Project Manager, you will be part of the RSS Enterprise Capabilities Team and report to the Chapter Lead for Project Management and Ideation.

Your Opportunity

Engagement Delivery

In this role, you will consult our internal partners prior to project initiation and you will be responsible for successful project ideation. Your work will include but will not be limited to:

• Understanding the challenge an organization is trying to address as well as the outcomes our partners are striving for

• Conducting organizational assessments identifying the current and desired states regarding identified improvement areas

• Leading the co-creation and tailoring of pragmatic solutions to address already known business challenges and helping to surface the still unknown ones 

You will also be responsible for successful Project or Program Delivery using agile or traditional project management methodology. Your work will include but will not be limited to:

• Understanding the business goal(s) and value of the project and striving to deliver the defined benefits to the organization

• Leading global project teams ensuring clear roles and responsibilities and resource assignment to the project / program plan deliverables

• Ensuring that the critical success factors of reliability, compliance, efficiency, sustainability, time to value are managed throughout the entire lifecycle of the projects / programs

• Effectively managing stakeholders through the establishment of key relationships and developing an understanding of their organizations

• Contributing to business development opportunities where appropriate

Capability Building 

Be an active member of the Project Management and Ideation Chapter by  

• Helping mature the project management and ideation capabilities, service offerings and community engagement leveraging latest developments and market dynamics

• Supporting the development of training content and toolkits for our team. Actively managing your ideation and project management upskilling and applying your learnings during engagements and sharing these learnings with your chapter colleagues

Who you are

• You have a university degree and 10+ years of business consultancy-related work experience.

• You bring a strong knowledge in project management fundamentals (waterfall, SCRUM and others) and problem solving approaches.

• You have extensive experience in leading global/complex projects, from idea stage to implementation, organizing and optimizing resources and establishing clear priorities.

In addition, you bring the following qualifications, experience and personal attributes

• Broad expertise in several business areas, preferably as part of the value chain (R&D, Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain)

• Strong track record of motivating, coaching and developing individuals and teams, especially within a project setup

• Demonstrated team play, continuous improvement mindset and the ability to successfully navigate in an environment with many unknowns

• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated proficiency in influencing, negotiating, and effective global collaboration across business partners and levels of seniority

• Self-driven, adaptable and resilient, with a growth mindset

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.