Operations Partner, pRED Therapeutic Modalities

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.

The Position

In Roche’s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED), we make transformative medicines for patients in order to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs. At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicines. 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.

The Therapeutic Modalities (TMo) organization is accountable for translating disease biology into high-quality drug candidates across small molecules, large molecules, oligonucleotides, and genomic medicines. By integrating deep modality expertise with cross-disciplinary collaboration, TMo drives innovation within and across platforms to enable differentiated, sustainable therapeutic impact.

TMo Business Excellence is a central support function, focused on enabling TMo’s scientific potential. We translate business needs into administrative, operational and lab services with the goal to maximize TMo productivity.

The Opportunity

The Operations Partner plays a vital role in ensuring TMo departments operate efficiently. Key responsibilities include providing administrative support, driving process and operational effectiveness and becoming an active enabler of our TMo community and culture. Furthermore:
 

• Serve as first point of contact and act as specialist on core administrative and organisational topics, such as planning, scheduling and coordinating travel and on- / offsite meetings and events.

• Ensure all general administrational activities comply with legal / compliance regulations and internal best practices

• Support recruitment: organise interviews, plan on- and off-boarding of new employees & external partners

• Streamline administrative and operational processes and workflows: make processes transparent and efficient, ensure the relevant and up to date information is available to the team at the right level of detail and the right time.

• Drive advancing our digital readiness by enabling AI tool adoption, and upskilling to drive smarter, tech-enabled administration and operations.

• Act as a sensor and mood barometer, supporting departmental leadership to create better understanding of employees needs while promoting cooperation and strategic topics, for example related to organizational culture. Actively contribute to relevant leadership forums / teams.

• Have a significant positive impact on the operational effectiveness of the department

Who you are

You are a talented and passionate person, inspired by our shared purpose of being key partners in delivering the portfolio for the benefit of patients. Furthermore, You are/ You have:
 

• Minimum of 5 years experience in an administrative or operational role

• Fluency with administrative / operational processes and technical programs, e.g. Google C Suite / Microsoft, SAP, Concur and other tools

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal (English and German), including the development of high standard written communications and slides

• Excellent organizational skills, proactive working style with the ability to structure and drive implementation and rigorous attention to detail

• Strong adopter and enabler of “Everyday AI Tools” combined with a strong growth mindset in this area

• Demonstrated affinity to process and data management

Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.