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Global External Manufacturing supervises parts and products in the diagnostic workflow produced by external suppliers. This includes new product development, product care, supply assurance, and supplier selection and maintenance, in collaboration with Procurement.

As a Product Lead External Manufacturing Consumables, you focus on designated products, working within an interdisciplinary team to cover all vital activities. You interact with Suppliers, Supply Chain, Quality and Regulatory, System Development, and Business Management, ensuring continuous learning and development. You also exercise leadership and leverage team intelligence, using your communication and presentation skills to visualize sophisticated interdependencies for informed decision-making.

As a Product Lead External Manufacturing Consumables, you will be responsible for the following topics:

Accountable for full supply of assigned products while ensuring a sustainable cost structure and necessary quality and compliance

Chair Product Meetings with supplier and sub-suppliers

Chair the Squad and provide necessary leadership to the team members and ensure a clear, strategic Squad view on prioritization and OneRoche mindset

Align the Squad strategy with relevant stakeholders within the Roche and Supplier networks

Act as the final decision maker within the Squad

Own and maintain product documentation and assets during the Product Life Cycle

University degree in Engineering, Natural Science, or related disciplines with relevant years of experience in IVD product management and production engineering. Knowledge of process management methodologies and IVD-related regulations (e.g., ISO 13485, IVDR, FDA 21 CFR part 820)

Experience in IVD product development, including design control, manufacturing, and testing

Ability to think strategically and systemically, with a willingness to try new ideas and participate in changes

Proven leadership skills, including consensus building and conflict management. Ability to effectively communicate across all organizational levels and build rapport, with executive presence under pressure. Excellent communication skills in German and English

Demonstrating operating principles: putting patients first, following the science, acting as one team, embracing differences, accelerating learning, simplifying radically, making an impact now, and thinking long-term. Self-motivated, autonomous, structured, and goal-oriented mindset with a balance of short-term mitigation and long-term solutions.

Willing to travel 10-20%.

Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

Are you ready to apply? We want someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be an outstanding opportunity to craft the future of Roche.

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 International in Rotkreuz is a leading provider of diagnostic systems solutions, and the largest manufacturer of fully automated in vitro diagnostic systems in Switzerland. We are more than 2’700 passionate colleagues from over 65 nationalities. Find out more about our site in Central Switzerland, here.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.