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APAC Informatics Partner - Japan 

Mission 

As an Informatics Partner, you build trusted collaborative relationships with our stakeholders including but not limited to business functions, healthcare ecosystem parties, Informatics domains and chapters, and external vendors to deliver strategy and solutions aligning with our Roche ambitions. You serve as the strategic interface for business technology and strategy development topics, risk management and relationship management for the ultimate benefit of patients.

What you'll be working on:

In this role, you will

Partner with our stakeholders, including affiliate and regional senior stakeholders, to drive impactful outcomes by leading and co-creating technology-enabled business strategies that align with our local and regional goals & objectives. 

Apply understanding of external technology trends, long term business strategy co-develop opportunities/strategies 

Proactively identify business opportunities to architect, design, prototype and collaborate with business and product leads/owners to deliver continually improved products 

Bring thought leadership to our stakeholders to shape differentiated capabilities and impact for our healthcare ecosystem. 

Lead our stakeholders to synthesize and direct requests to connect-the-dots for our Informatics products. 

Serve as the primary point of contact for issue escalation and collaborate with Product lead/owner to deliver expected project/opportunity outcome. 

Participate in squad, chapter and domain meetings/ceremonies and Collaboration-Pods (C-Pods) 

Actively contribute to best practice sharing to advance our collective learning and capability building. 

Continually seeks reuse and promote solutions that address common business opportunities to fulfill business needs 

Ensure end-to-end IT effectiveness by collaborating with Informatics chapters and domains 

Enable IT Processes in assigned area of responsibility 

Requirements 

The ideal candidate

Academic graduation in IT, business or equivalent and track record of working in teams in a matrix environment. You have breadth of experience working in an international environment, successfully collaborating & influencing management and key stakeholders.

Possesses strong business knowledge and is well networked in the Japan technology Ecosystem.

Monitors industry/technology trends and market challenges to identify opportunities and co-create strategic solutions.

Approaches collaborations with a customer centric, entrepreneurial and agile mindset to navigate through ambiguity, manage complexity and support the Business to make trade-off decisions

Promotes innovation, self-regulation and empowerment of direct and indirect team members

Nurtures and develops a business savvy consultative and value driven partnership.

Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset and servant leadership behavior

Exhibits systems thinking with a high degree of self-awareness, empathy, deep listening, active curiosity, awareness of different norms and expectations

Fluent in English and Japanese are a must.

This position will be based in Tokyo.

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 Diagnostics K.K. is a member of Roche group, one of the world's leading healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, in charge of in-vitro diagnostic and equipment business in Japan. Roche Diagnostics K.K is also the leading company in our business field in Japan, providing high quality products and latest information as one of the most important sites in Diagnostic division of Roche group.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.