What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Quality Partner position at Roche?
The Position
Role Purpose
As an Operations Quality Principal 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 We@Roche 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 increase productivity, 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
Perform activities as required to meet Q&R goals and objectives independently and lead through the performance of these activities. Able to identify improvements and implement independently. Participate in cross functional Global initiatives.
Responsible for training, coaching, mentoring and leading other quality managers or business partners, as applicable in a professional manner to ensure that business needs are being met. Has a deep product and process understanding and is able to translate this understanding into tangible learnings for other employees.
Navigates in complex situations by applying a diverse skill set.
Document authoring and review as required to support changes. Performs technical reviews, as applicable. May require collaboration with supervisor on technically complex technical reviews independently.
Preparing documentation for, coordinating, leading, and participating in audits as applicable.
Completing all required training in learning solution.
Able to troubleshoot issues as they arise, independently develop and implement cost effective and non-complex actions solutions to ensure that daily work is completed without jeopardizing compliance.
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
Ability to work day to day without supervision to correctly complete daily scheduled and unscheduled activities. Initiates activities independently and initiates interactions across departments as applicable. Initiates daily activities independently with cost, culture and compliance. Has courage to make decisions even outside of scope/comfort zone. Is decisive and does not procrastinate on decisions; develop solutions and present both issues and solutions to your manager.
Leads and/or participates in large/global cross-functional or cross-chapter projects.
Develop and Lead process improvements to meet business needs taking into consideration cost, compliance and complexity to implement robust processes. Able to link responsibilities with both site and Global Quality and Regulatory. Drive innovations across the global organization.
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 Dia 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, independently. 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, across sites and across all of the global organizations and leverages these connections to achieve our key results. Identifies personal goals and actively manages her or his career to pursue personal goals and priorities independently.
What else do you have in your toolbox:
5-10 Years experience; Recognised internally as an expert in own job discipline.
Bachelor’s / Master degree in Life Science, Data Science or related subject or equivalent experience. Completed training as a technician or laboratory technician; or equivalent qualification for the tasks; limited working experience.
Has worked in more than one function within quality management and may have worked outside of Quality Management. Can manage highly complex and/or global projects, or equivalent experience.
Locations:
You are based in Pleasanton, CA.
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
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Pleasanton, CA is $113,200 and $210,200. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.
Benefits
Roche is an equal opportunity employer
Who we are
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.
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, innovates and manufactures instruments and reagents that automate tissue processing and slide staining for cancer diagnostics. Our integrated staining, workflow management and digital pathology solutions optimize laboratory efficiency to reduce errors and support diagnosis for pathology professionals. Together with Roche, Ventana is driving personalized healthcare through accelerated drug discovery and companion diagnostics.
Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the on-line application process, please email us at US.Accommodation@roche.com.
Salary : $113,200 - $210,200
