Disease Area Squad Lead Breast Cancer, Sub-Saharan Africa at Roche

The Opportunity

• The Disease Area Squad Lead as an agnostic steward of resources, leverages the expertise across the network to ensure integrated disease area outcomes are achieved through prioritization of business outcomes, optimising resource allocation and seizing opportunities to deliver on evolving DA needs and enable triple win outcomes.
• Whilst being hired into a country affiliate, this role will be a member of the PI network, working in cross border collaborations, to realise and scale country outcomes by contributing to virtual, cross border, cross functional work package teams.

Main Responsibilities

• Provides inspirational leadership in setting the vision and strategic ambition for the squad and assuming overall accountability for the execution of this vision/ambition by applying Outcome based planning principles (including budget oversight)
• Creates an environment where diverse technical disciplines can align, develop and execute in order to pursue the affiliate/squad North Star ambition
• Uses agile methodologies in the squad and constantly seeks for continuous improvement through team retrospectives
• Ensures Customer (Internal and external) voice is included in their solutions through co creation and establishes a consistent and best-in-class customer journey experience through omnichannels
• Provides VACC leadership and coaching of squad members, peers and more broadly as required, to ensure individuals and teams are fit-for-purpose and growing in line with their passion and the needs of the Organisation
• In collaboration with other Squad Leads, champions synergies in overall prioritisation of all squad priorities, in line with Organisational resourcing capacity, enabling re-use and reducing duplication in delivering seamless end-to-end patient solutions partnering with Global and Pharma international
• Aligns squad vision and ambition with regional and global outcomes, leverage the networked ways of working to identify synergies cross countries and maximize impact
• End to end accountable for their respective squads, including outcome based plan and defining (and regularly assess) resources and capabilities required to achieve these outcomes
• Responsible to collaborate with other squad leads to prioritize and mane trade off decisions between squads and portfolio prioritization
• Works collaboratively, contributing and sharing expertise across the organisation to remove silos and duplication, ensure efficient use of similar skill-sets, and to ultimately support common pursuit of the organisational North Star

Who you are:

Functional Capabilities

• Mobilizes teams and fosters partnership
• Mentoring, Coaching and Developing people
• End-to-end management of and accountability for the product backlog and outcomes through VACC leadership
• Know how of the Disease area landscape and life cycle management
• Full command of English is required with the willingness to learn French

Other Critical Capabilities:

• Entrepreneurial, able to identify opportunities, to experiment, to take risks and disrupt the status quo
• Borderless Collaboration: working closely with other countries/communities/teams, embracing the loop of “sharing and learning together” to co-create and upscale Ecosystem Solutions
• Budget Management - for oversight and prioritization
• Project Management - Leading projects and solutions in an impactful way
• Influencing and Communication skills
• Deep listening, Empathy and co-creating solutions
• Stakeholder management
• System Thinking: able to understand relationships, create purposeful strong internal/external collaborations with key stakeholders to mobilize systems towards change that enables better outcomes for patients
• Demonstrated ability to live Roche Values, Leadership Commitments, VACC leaders and Operating Principles

Mindsets

• Enabler mindset leveraging the internal and external networks to create value
• Growth mindset and customer centricity able to learn and quickly, take risks and experiment
• Value Creation mindset, everything we do brings value to patients, ecosystems and Roche