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

The Digital Product Value Stream Leader is a strategic leadership role responsible for owning the end-to-end lifecycle and commercial success of Roche Diagnostics China’s "Connected Lab" digital portfolio. This role requires a visionary leader who will define the long-term strategic direction and vision, as well as a roadmap for connected laboratory solutions, ensuring alignment with Roche’s broader digital ecosystem and the specific needs of the Chinese market.

In this capacity, you will lead, coach and empower a team of Product Managers, fostering a culture of agility, customer-centricity, and outcome-based delivery. This role serves as a critical bridge, ensuring seamless synergy between technical engineering, commercial go-to-market strategies, and customer experience, ensuring that our digital value stream maximizes laboratory efficiency, data connectivity, and diagnostic value. You will also be accountable for the P&L performance, adoption, and sustained growth of the Connected Lab product suite.

The opportunities:

• Value Stream Strategy: Define and execute a cohesive digital strategy for the Connected Lab value stream, transitioning products from concept to launch and maturity while ensuring seamless integration with laboratory hardware and middleware.
• Team Leadership: Build, coach, and lead a high-performing team of Product Managers; drive functional excellence in product discovery, backlog prioritization, and roadmap planning.
• Lifecycle Management: Oversee the complete product lifecycle (PLM) for the portfolio, making data-driven decisions on investment, iteration, and sunsetting to maximize ROI.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Act as the primary interface between local R&D, Global teams, Commercial, and Customer Support to remove bottlenecks and ensure timely delivery of value to customers.
• Market Success: Deeply understand the China diagnostics landscape to drive product-market fit, ensuring solutions address local regulatory requirements, workflow challenges, and digital trends.

Who you are:

Education & Qualifications

• Master or bachelor's degree in IT, Finance, Business or Biomedical Sciences

Skills & Competencies

• Deep curiosity about the healthcare ecosystem with a fluency in common business models and knowledge of the competitive landscape for digital health and diagnostics
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical stills, ability to work alone as product business owner to drive the projects forward.
• Leadership skills, including strategic thinking, creativity, integrity, trust, accountability, credibility, judgment, persuasion/influence, fairness and high ethical standards.
• Ability to positively approach new challenges and opportunities, using creative thought processes to uniquely solve problems
• Ability to build and execute processes with a mindset toward the future
• Strong strategic planning skills
• High tolerance for ambiguity
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Organized, detail-oriented
• High level of written and oral communication skills

Experience

12+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Information, Scientific Communications, or Clinical Informatics, preferably in a pharmaceutical, medical device, or health technology setting.

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.