Global Program Manager ( 12 months FTC ) in Welwyn

Global Program Manager (GPM) at Roche/Genentech – a core member of molecule/disease area teams responsible for driving drug or disease area development programs to maximize efficiency, portfolio value, and patient benefit.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic program management to project teams, framing and assessing options, identifying inflection points and critical factors for project delivery and decision‑making.
• Guide molecule teams in close collaboration with the team leader, building and maintaining highly functioning project teams through observation of dynamics, trust‑building, issue resolution, and encouraging open dialogue.
• Keep teams on track to deliver short‑, mid‑ and long‑term activities, driving key program/project meetings, workshops, team communication and documentation.
• Lead and contribute to functional or company‑wide initiative workstreams where appropriate.
• Contribute to portfolio management by reporting and proactively maintaining key project information to support portfolio overview and decisions.
• Maintain program and project management guidelines, standards and tools as required.
• Drive implementation and execution of program strategy, identifying and mitigating program risks.
• Leverage molecule development and market expertise to accelerate high‑quality decisions, lead effective ways of working and catalyze change.
• Foster a teaching, coaching and learning culture, embodying OneRoche leadership principles such as Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach.
• Support integrated evidence planning, ensuring broad and sustainable patient access by defining necessary evidence for regulatory, access and clinical practice across a product’s life‑cycle.

Key Qualifications

• Proven track record of driving comprehensive program strategies in drug development, with solid experience in the development lifecycle and potentially commercial activities.
• Experience using project management, change management, business management or related tools, methodologies and approaches to deliver strategy and outcomes efficiently.
• Systems thinker capable of understanding the landscape and interconnectedness of activities within projects and the wider business.
• Effective communicator with transparent, strategic sharing of information and influence across stakeholders.
• Results‑oriented in ambiguous environments, ensuring clarity of objectives and an easily understood plan or roadmap.
• Strong influencing, communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate across functions without explicit authority.
• Comfortable with working out loud, iteration, experimentation and an active listening mindset.
• Belief in learning, growth, enabling value creation and an enterprise mindset.

Working Conditions

Location: Welwyn, United Kingdom – onsite. Hybrid work structure with a fixed number of onsite days per week. Relocation benefits are not available.

Equal Opportunity Employment

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. The statements herein describe the general nature and level of work performed and are not exhaustive. Roche Products Ltd. reserves the right to change duties and responsibilities at its discretion.