Squad Lead - Nephrology and Pipeline

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

Squad Lead -  Nephrology and Pipeline 

Location: We are preferably looking for candidates based in greater Toronto.

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and in the future. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

As a Squad Lead (Franchise Lead), you embody courageous and authentic leadership, consistently driven by enterprise thinking and a deep commitment to patient and customer centricity. You hold the crucial accountability for developing and delivering on the therapeutic or disease area ambitions, while maintaining an overarching enterprise mindset. Your responsibilities extend to shaping the business strategy, effectively mobilizing a diverse, cross-disciplinary team, and cultivating an environment that champions exceptional execution excellence and speed. You foster a high-performance team that is in service of achieving both squad ambitions and our vision.

We are seeking an outstanding senior leader who possesses extensive and current experience within the Neuro-degenerative -(Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s, Huntington’s) or Rheumatology or Nephrology Disease Areas, coupled with a proven track record of demonstrable impact. Launch experience within these disease areas is highly desired, as is a history of successfully launching new products and a strong ability to collaborate effectively on an international scale, externally and internally.

Roche Squads are end-to-end accountable for the creation and delivery of compelling value propositions to our patients, customers, and the business at large. This accountability encompasses both the strategy development, execution and comprehensive oversight of all related work.

The Opportunity:

• Leadership: Demonstrates inspirational leadership, fosters empowerment, proactively seeks feedback, reflects and acts on it, delivers constructive feedback with courage and care, and drives a high-performance culture.
• Strategic Development & Systems Thinking: Excels in developing impactful strategies while considering the “big picture.” Demonstrates the ability to analyze complexity, connect the dots across functions, and develop strategies that drive sustainable growth and enterprise-level alignment. Able to handle multiple large and complex DA priorities with clarity and structure. 
• Execution Excellence: Consistently sets and executes on ambitious goals, creating impact within their market and teams.
• Executive Communication & Influencing: Displays confidence and clarity in communication. Effectively conveys key messages, masters the art of influencing cross-functional and cross-market stakeholders, and has the ability to manage complex discussions with confidence.
• Significant external focus: You are the face of the disease area nationally. You develop and nurture key customer and stakeholder relationships, with significant presence in the field  
• Coaching and mentoring squad members (in lock-step alignment with Chapter Leads), to ensure individuals and teams are developing and growing in line with the needs of the organization and their passion
• Creative Leadership: Maintaining a creative leadership mindset, embracing the VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach) principles to guide a flexible, autonomous, fit-for-purpose, and empowered team
• Enterprise Mindset: Ensuring Squad strategies, planning and execution (including investment) are aligned to both squad AND enterprise portfolio priorities
• In collaboration with other Squad Leads, ensuring effective overall prioritization of all squad priorities, in line with Organizational resourcing capacity
• Global collaboration: Closely collaborate with Global Pharma Strategy (GPS), Pharma International (PI) and other global team to ensure localization of global strategy 
• Accountable for the performance of the squad and creating the right conditions to achieve  outcomes (impact retros, ensuring that feedback is being provided to all team members)
• Acting as a guardian for high standards of compliance, ethics and safety; putting patients at the centre of all actions by consistent business behavior that complies with applicable laws, industry codes and Roche’s Code of Conduct.

Who You Are:

• You hold an University degree  in a scientific, medical, or business field.
• Long-standing and current experience in the Neurodegeneration or Nephrology experience is highly desired.  CVRM is a plus market. 
• You possess over 15+ years of which 7+ years of leadership experience within the highly competitive pharmaceutical/biotechnology sector, demonstrating progress in roles, expertise in commercial strategies and customer engagement.
• You demonstrate collaborative, people-centered leadership, influencing, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• You consistently demonstrate strong business acumen, communication, and negotiation skills, leading to exceptional execution and impressive speed. Your innovative approach is characterized by rapid experimentation.
• You have proven ability to mentor, coach, and empower teams, and to have crucial conversations with courage and skill.
• You strength in leading with ambiguity and possess experience in working with and leading a cross-functional team with diverse competencies, skills and functional expertise.

Preferred:

• You hold an advanced degree (eg. Ph.D, MSc, MD, PharmD)
• You have direct people management experience and the ability to lead effectively in ambiguous situations.
• You excel at building and maintaining strong collaborative relationships and networks, both internally (locally and globally) and externally.
• Bilingualism in English and French is preferred

• Minimum 25% Travel

Relocation benefits are available for this position

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.