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The Position

The Opportunity

Quality is a competitive advantage for Roche. It allows us to deliver high-quality products to patients, ensures our right to operate, and helps us create value through process excellence and continual improvement efforts. Quality is every patient’s right and every employee’s responsibility.

As the Operations Quality Site Head in Penzberg, you are accountable for the quality of the products manufactured at the site(s) you represent (Penzberg and Cape Town, South Africa) and for ensuring compliance with valid specifications and regulatory requirements. The Operations Quality Site Head is a member of the Global Operations Quality Leadership Team (GOQLT), a member of the Site Leadership Team and the Operations team(s) that you support.

• Ensure Product Quality & Compliance : Oversee manufacturing in Penzberg and Cape Town to meet regulatory standards, support inspection readiness, and implement corrective actions as needed.

• Lead Quality Governance & Risk Communication : Maintain and improve quality governance systems and report significant quality or compliance risks to executive management.

• Drive Organizational Performance : Provide leadership to Quality teams, manage talent development, and ensure alignment with organizational goals through coaching and performance management.

• Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with site heads, network leaders, and functional partners to integrate efforts, resolve bottlenecks, and align on strategic and operational priorities.

• Develop and Manage Resources : Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and resource planning to ensure efficient and effective use of company resources.

• Champion Continuous Improvement & Lean Leadership : Build a culture focused on continuous improvement, lean principles, and ingrained quality practices.

• Enable Agile Transformation : Role-model agile leadership and support new ways of working aligned with Roche’s cultural transformation and decision-making evolution.

• Deliver on Long-Term Strategic Goals : Contribute to Roche’s 10-year ambitions by driving innovation, patient access to diagnostics, and ecosystem integration through the OneRoche approach.

Who You Are

You are a strong and visionary leader who is ready to partner with our operations and manufacturing sites to deliver high quality products to customers and patients, ensures our right to operate and helps us create value through leveraging analytics, process excellence, Lean Manufacturing and continual improvement efforts.

• Bachelor’s / Master degree in Life Science, Pharmacy or related subject. Advanced degree is considered an advantage.

• At least eight (8) years of demonstrated people leadership experience or equivalent experience.

• Experience in directing and leading large successful organizations.

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of Quality operations and processes.

• At least ten (10) years in the Medical Device/Pharma/Biopharmaceutical industry with 5 years working in Quality, Compliance, Regulatory and/or Validation, preferred or equivalent experience.

• Excellent knowledge of the European, US, China and International cGMP regulations and demonstrated ability to adequately interpret and implement quality standards.

• Demonstrated experience in European, US and other relevant Health Authority inspections.

In this role you will be based in Penzberg. At the Company's discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances.

As this position is part of a global organization, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

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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.