Quality Partner

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.

RIS Quality Partnering and Digital Controls Quality Partner (SE5)

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients' lives and we are fearless in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

Quality is a competitive advantage for Roche. It allows us to deliver high-quality products to patients, ensures our right to operate, and helps us create value through process excellence and continual improvement efforts. Quality is every patient's right and every employee's responsibility.  

Role Purpose

As a RIS Quality Partner, you are accountable for ensuring your contributions are delivered in a way that lives up to our commitments to each other and the Diagnostic Commitments.   You are responsible for building and developing your capabilities to contribute more to the team, customers and patients.  You apply new approaches to improving your work to enhance established processes, reduce costs or mitigate significant compliance issues within your area of influence.  You work as a strategic business partner to help break down silos between organizations (internal and external) all which lead to developing and producing safe, quality products and services that meet customer requirements throughout the entire lifecycle.  You push the boundaries to enable and implement smart, risk-based compliant processes that result in quick and efficient innovation.

You will be responsible to …

Drive business results and customer value

Responsible for performing activities as required to meet Q&R goals and objectives with minimal collaboration with your manager.   Able to identify improvements and implement with collaboration from your manager. 

With in-depth specialist knowledge of own job discipline and broad knowledge of related disciplines in the field.

Document authoring and review as required to support changes.  Performs technical reviews, as applicable.  May require collaboration with your manager on technically complex technical reviews.

Can coach and train quality professionals with less experience and provide guidance.

Preparing documentation for audits as applicable.

Completing all required training in learning solutions.

Responsible for training, coaching and mentoring other quality managers or business partners, as applicable in a professional manner to ensure that business needs are being met.

Identifying and escalating issues as they arise and able to provide adequate solutions. 

Communicating significant quality or regulatory issues and risks that may impact product quality or regulatory compliance in a timely manner to Executive Management.

Advance the work of the Network, making tradeoffs and breaking silos

Works day to day with minimal supervision to correctly complete daily scheduled and unscheduled activities.   Initiates daily activities independently with limited guidance.   Has courage to make decisions within scope of responsibility. Is decisive and does not procrastinate on decisions; develops solutions and presents both issues and solutions to the manager. 

Initiate, facilitate, participate and implement process improvements to meet business needs.  Able to link responsibilities with both site and Global Quality and Regulatory.  Drive innovation within their own area of influence.

Contribute by participating in large/global cross-functional or cross-chapter squads where it may take a leading role.

Empower and enable the Network

Build and maintain strong partnerships with colleagues and business patterns to assure alignment around strategic projects and day-to-day activities and to assure mutually successful working relationships.

Be the champion and advocate for Engrained Quality at the Site.

Build a culture of continuous improvement.

Enable the organization's New Ways of Working

Act as role-model for Agile Leadership behaviors, as well as for our culture, mindset & behaviors as defined in Diagnostics Operating Principles.

Model behaviors to support the organization's transformation to new, more Agile Ways of Working – e.g. new decision making/governance practices, collaboration, etc.

Everything you do should contribute directly to the achievement of our Roche Ten Year ambitions, including:

• Double patient access to novel, high-medical-value diagnostics solutions

• Build the leading, profitable insights business

• Improve patients' lives via 'OneRoche Approach' to ecosystem in every country

How

Know and follow the Dia Operating Principles and Roche Core Competencies. Adopts and adheres to the Leadership Commitments.     Accountable for meeting commitments. Is flexible, able to shift priorities while balancing commitments and daily work requirements, with minimal collaboration from your manager.   Seeks candid feedback on his or her performance and acts on it.  Recognizes the contributions of teammates and peers.  Establishes strong collaborative relationships inter-departmentally and leverages these connections to achieve our key results.  Identify personal goals and actively manages her or his career to pursue personal goals and priorities with collaboration from your manager.

What else do you have in your toolbox: 

• 2+ years experience

• Bachelor's / Master degree in Life Science, Data Science or related subject or equivalent experience. Completed training as a technician; or equivalent qualification for the tasks; limited working experience.

Locations:

You are based in the following location:

• Pune, India

At the Company's discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances.  

As this position is part of a global organization, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

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

Roche is an equal opportunity employer

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.