Senior Risk Manager

The Position

Senior Risk Manager

Roche has defined an exciting 10-year ambition plan, requiring us to adapt and transform to our evolving ecosystem and the challenges ahead. We have redesigned our Global Procurement (GP) organization to ensure we can succeed in this new environment and deliver on our mission for patients by building new capabilities and creating a more agile organization. We aim to improve our ability to deliver on our vision to “accelerate Roche’s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships.” If you are excited about driving this change and catalyzing the future by establishing a world class supplier risk management framework, the Senior Risk Manager role is for you.

What is Supplier Risk Management?

In Roche Global Procurement, we aim to bring more, better and higher quality solutions to our patients faster, while ensuring cost effectiveness and minimizing risk exposure. Supplier Risk Management efforts help ensure an uninterrupted supply of materials and services. The Supplier Risk Management team is a relatively new team within GP, focused on detecting and managing active supplier and market risks, identifying and preventing potential emerging risks, and building overall supply chain is an exciting and important area where you can develop cross-functionally, connect closely to business needs, and deliver meaningful, long-term value to Roche and, ultimately, patients.

Are you wondering what is in it for you?

Are you interested in further developing your broad set of skills? Here is why we think the Senior Risk Manager role is a fantastic job to consider

As the Senior Risk Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, leadership, and focus on risk management throughout the supplier lifecycle. Using your specialized and in-depth knowledge in supply chain resilience, financial risk, and supplier risk management, you help ensure security of supply through proactively identifying and mitigating potential supplier and market risks, supporting disaster recovery, and enhancing supplier partnerships to ensure business continuity and solve business problems. 

You will be responsible for the oversight of end-to-end risk management program for specific procurement categories. This includes building data driven analysis to inform risk mitigation and business continuity management actions, development of strategy and business cases to support recommendations. You will be working closely with procurement colleagues, business customers, suppliers, and other relevant stakeholders. 

As the Senior Risk Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general requirements, including but not limited to:

Oversee and drive the execution of end-to-end supplier risk management activities throughout the supplier lifecycle (Planning, Due Diligence, Contacting, Ongoing Monitoring & Termination) 

Provide through thought leadership, advice, and know-how on supply chain resilience, financial risk, and supplier risk prevention

Apply the supplier risk management framework to reduce risk, minimize business disruption and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery through support, coaching, and co-creation with team members or colleagues

Conduct the analysis of current or proposed business operations in by supported procurement categories to identify areas of potential loss or damage and quantify impact and provide guidance to business decision-makers on issues and development of risk mitigation strategies

Collaborate with Global Procurement and partner functions Compliance, Operations Strategy, Group SHE, Quality) to achieve the most effective integration of available tools and data into existing supplier risk management processes

You will work with the team, networks, and squads to ensure prioritization, consistency, coordinated strategic direction, and delivery of both project and foundational work.

Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

You bring the following skills, mindsets, and behaviors:

Skills 

You hold a university degree, with a law, business, life science or engineering degree preferable. You also have extensive experience in the biotechnology/ pharmaceutical industry including leadership roles, ideally in a matrix organization, as well as strong demonstrated success in building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. 

In addition, you have:

Proven understanding of drug development, commercialization and operations planning

Established understanding of supply chain fundamentals and risk management

Experience in continuous improvement of business processes, including process ownership, oversight and monitoring.

Authoritative command of complexity and ambiguity, ability to collect, digest and assemble information to enable meaningful business analyses and influence decision-making

Business level fluency in English

Mindset and Behaviors

You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch. 

You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

What you get

Annual bonus payment based on your performance;

Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.);

Highly flexible working arrangements - you have an impact on your daily schedule and you will work with your manager on how often you visit our office 

Roche is an equal opportunity employer. We care about inclusion in terms of gender, age, race, skin colour, nationality, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, background, physical or mental disabilities and on every other grounds. Applying for our position, we assure you that we will assess your application solely on the basis of your competencies.
 

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