Job Description

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

We are Roche, committed to advancing science so that we all have more time with the people we love.

Our Global Pharma Strategy (GPS) team is the heartbeat of Pharma, setting the rhythm for Pharma — shaping Roche’s strategic direction, ensuring our portfolio delivers meaningful innovation to patients worldwide. By integrating scientific, commercial, and market insights, GPS drives enterprise-wide strategy, portfolio prioritization, and business model innovation to advance Roche’s leadership in the evolving healthcare landscape.

As part of the Portfolio, Strategy, and Insights (PSI) team within GPS, you will serve as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor, guiding Roche’s product, disease area, pharma, and corporate strategy. The PSI team, composed of Advanced Analytics for Business Insights (AABI), Competitive Intelligence, Ecosystem Insights (EI), Partnering Commercial Assessment Leads, and Pharma Portfolio & Strategy, delivers consistent, targeted, and technology-enabled insights that drive quality decision-making across the enterprise, providing unbiased, expertly curated intelligence to inform lifecycle management, commercialization excellence, and portfolio strategies.

The Global Ecosystem Insights (EI) team is looking for a Beyond Therapeutic Area (TA) Market Insights Leader to join us in shaping Roche's Pharma strategy through market, portfolio and customer-centric insights. This role functions as an internal consultant and strategist, partnering with commercial and cross-functional leaders to generate insights that span Therapeutic Areas and shape cross-portfolio decisions.

The Opportunity

The Beyond TA Market Insights Leader is responsible for operationalizing industry-leading methodologies in primary and secondary market research to guide strategic decisions. In this role, you will lead innovative projects and workstreams that pioneer new methodologies, apply new technologies and create analyses that shape development and commercial strategy. You will partner extensively within EI and other PSI teams to drive engagement, embed enhancements, and realize the full value of solutions developed. You will navigate a complex global matrix to align cross-functional partners around high-impact, insight-driven deliverables. You will report to the EI Beyond TA Enabling Leader.

Focus areas and responsibilities

• Insights excellence: Elevate the quality and impact of EI deliverables by advancing research practices across primary and secondary sources. You will ensure our research remains best-in-class by implementing high-impact methodologies and tools that allow insights to directly inform and accelerate strategic business decisions.
• Future-ready roadmap: Design and execute a multi-year roadmap to evolve Primary Market Research and secondary insights capabilities. You will lead pilots for innovative research engines and scale successful methodologies globally, ensuring our insights infrastructure is agile, scalable, and ahead of industry trends.
• Cross-portfolio insights: Lead the generation of strategic insights on themes with multi-TA impact, such as Digital Health, Drug Delivery, and next-generation commercialization models. You will connect the dots across the portfolio to unlock business value
• Upskilling and training: Define the gold standard for Market Research within EI. You will design and deliver a comprehensive curriculum to ensure our capabilities remain industry-leading and future proof
• Strategic vendor & compliance oversight: Serve as the primary lead for partnerships with key strategic vendors, ensuring high-quality delivery and partnership excellence in their work across EI. You will uphold the integrity of our research by overseeing established compliance frameworks and optimizing processes to ensure all activities consistently adhere to global standards

Who you are

• Education and experience: Bachelor’s degree (advanced degree preferred) and a minimum of 10 years (or equivalent with advanced education) of Pharma/Biotech commercial insights experience required
• Market Insights Expert: Must possess a mastery of the applications, strengths, and limitations of qualitative / quantitative market research techniques, secondary data analyses and advanced insights generation frameworks. Require a demonstrated history of applying advanced market research methodologies and innovations to solve complex business problems and drive continuous improvement of operations, tools and methodologies
• Strategic problem solver: A critical thinker capable of navigating TA, portfolio, and enterprise level complexities. Ability to translate research and analysis into concise, compelling business recommendations. Proven ability to connect disparate data points from across the enterprise to form a cohesive strategic narrative
• Influential collaborator: Adept at shaping commercialization strategies by influencing senior stakeholders without authority; expert at bridging various functional and geographic groups to build strong partnerships
• Innovation driver: Experienced in developing, generating buy-in and piloting innovative solutions or novel tools and systems; ability to generate new ideas/approaches that address business needs and drive creation / adoption of best practices
• Change champion Comfortable translating high-level intent into actionable roadmaps and leading initiatives confidently through uncertainty and resistance.
• Impact scaler: A track record of transformation impact through initiatives at the department/functional level, and/or broader organizational level

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Basel. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

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.