As an Informatics Partner, you build trusted collaborative relationships with our stakeholders including but not limited to business functions, healthcare ecosystem parties, Informatics domains and chapters, and external vendors to deliver strategy and solutions aligning with our Roche ambitions. You serve as the strategic interface for business technology and strategy development topics, risk management and relationship management for the ultimate benefit of patients.
What you'll be working on
In this role, you will
● Partner with our stakeholders, including affiliate and regional senior stakeholders, to drive impactful outcomes by leading and co-creating technology-enabled business strategies that align with our local and regional goals & objectives.
● Apply understanding of external technology trends, long term business strategyco-develop opportunities/strategies
● Proactively identify business opportunities to architect, design, prototype and collaboratewith business and product leads/owners to deliver continually improved products ● Bring thought leadership to our stakeholders to shape differentiated capabilities and impact for our healthcare ecosystem.
● Lead our stakeholders to synthesize and direct requests to connect-the-dots for ourInformatics products.
● Serve as the primary point of contact for issue escalation and collaborate with Productlead/owner to deliver expected project/opportunity outcome.
● Participate in squad, chapter and domain meetings/ceremonies and Collaboration-Pods(C-Pods).
● Actively contribute to best practice sharing to advance our collective learning andcapability building.
● Continually seeks reuse and promote solutions that address common businessopportunities to fulfill business needs .
● Ensure end-to-end IT effectiveness by collaborating with Informatics chapters anddomains .
● Enable IT Processes in assigned area of responsibility.
● Manage local solutions and be responsible for local IT budget.
You as the ideal candidate will have the following qualifications, experience, skills etc,
Years of experience: 2+ in stakeholder management, vision and strategy design/implementation, digitalization.
Qualification: Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or Informatics (NQF level 7) or similar.
Ability to work with leadership and product development teams.
Pharma and digital experience would be an asset.
Understanding of the external healthcare ecosystem and ability to collaborate with external ecosystem stakeholders .
Strong business acumen and foundational knowledge in the assigned partnering area.
Ability to Role model entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to support the business to make trade-off decisions.
Leverages internal and external networks to create and maximize value
Monitors industry/technology trends and market challenges to identify opportunities and co-create strategic solutions.
Approaches collaborations with a customer centric, entrepreneurial and agile mindset to navigate through ambiguity, manage complexity and support the Business to make trade-off decisions.
Promotes innovation, self-regulation and empowerment of direct and indirect team members .
Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset and servant leadership behavior .
Exhibits systems thinking with a high degree of self-awareness, empathy, deep listening, active curiosity, awareness of different norms and expectations.
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
Roche has played a pioneering role in healthcare as an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The company has operated in South Africa since 1947.The local office of Roche Diagnostics is based in Midrand, Johannesburg and it has offices throughout Southern Africa and Sub-Sahara Africa. We employ over 180 employees in our Diagnostics division.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.