15h Left Manager Strategy and Market Insights

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

Position – Manager – Strategy & Market Insights

This role is responsible for shaping and driving the company's long-term strategic direction by combining market intelligence, data-driven insights, and structured execution. The position involves developing and refining multi-year roadmaps, leading high-impact strategic projects (e.g., market entry, portfolio expansion, partnerships, M&A), and building mechanisms to track and assess business performance.

A core part of the role is translating complex market, competitor, and regulatory dynamics into actionable recommendations, while also fostering innovation through new go-to-market models and patient-centric solutions. The role requires strong engagement with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring that strategic imperatives are clearly defined, communicated, and executed to deliver sustainable business growth.

Your Opportunity

A) Strategic Planning & Execution

- Contribute to the development and continuous refinement of the company's 3–5-year strategic roadmap, while tracking progress against defined objectives and strategic directions.

- Build or articulate and maintain business area wise strategic direction guide with clear strategic imperatives and expected business outcome for regular reviews and refinement.

- Lead or partner on high-impact strategic projects (e.g., market entry, portfolio expansion, partnerships, M&A assessments) to deliver defined business goals.

- Design and implement business tracking mechanisms to generate business area-wise insights, enabling leadership to assess the overall health and performance of the business.

- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify and define key business drivers and annual priorities for each business area.

- Design and facilitate stakeholder workshops, synthesize discussions and clearly articulate outcomes into actionable insights and directions.

- Market & Competitive Intelligence

- Analyze overall healthcare, health economics dynamics and in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry trends, competitor activities and regulatory developments to anticipate market shifts and business impact.

- Act as the custodian of in-market data, validating key assumptions and hypotheses on a regular basis.

- Lead overall market research initiatives and deliver precise, actionable insights that guide business decisions.

- Conduct comprehensive market assessments for potential new launches, integrating stakeholder feedback (labs, clinicians), competitor benchmarking, and SWOT analysis etc.

- Translate insights into clear business implications and strategic recommendations.

- Develop and maintain an in-house "Insight Hub".

B) Insights & Analytics

- Simplify complex data into clear narratives and recommendations for senior leadership.

- Develop forecasts and scenario models to support business planning.

- Integrate data from multiple sources (CRM, in-market, sales) into meaningful insights.

- Provide regular performance reports to leadership, highlighting key drivers, risks, and opportunities.

- Innovation & Transformation

- Drive strategic thinking around innovative GTMs, patient-centric models, and innovative care solutions/ideas.

- Drive structured ideation processes (e.g., design thinking, innovation sprints, workshops).

- Evaluate new concepts for feasibility, scalability, and business impact.

C) Stakeholder Engagement

- Partner with senior leaders, Marketing, Sales and Support functional teams to influence decision-making through clear and structured recommendations and rationales.

- Prepare executive-level presentations and strategic communication materials.

Who You Are

- MBA, Master's in Healthcare Management, Life Sciences, Economics, or related field.

- 6 - 9 years' experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, in healthcare, pharma, diagnostics, or medtech.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proven ability to manage complex projects.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

- Exposure to healthcare markets, regulatory frameworks, and digital health trends preferred.

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.

---