Digital Program Lead - Pharma Commercial, Global Digital & Data Analytics

Roche•South San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Digital Program Lead - Pharma Commercial (PACE) plays a critical role within GDDA's Digital Global Programs and Products function. PACE (Powering & Accelerating Commercialization Excellence) is a global program to drive patient and business impact through a unified commercialization engine. The role ensures that PACE digital program needs are translated into actionable requirements across digital product suites. Reporting to the Head of Global Digital Programs & Products, this role operates at the intersection of program management, product coordination, and enterprise orchestration — connecting the dots across multiple product suites, shared (Roche Digital Technologies) RDT & delivery team capacity, and the PACE commercialization excellence agenda. This role ensures that PACE-driven digital priorities are integrated into GDDA's product planning and delivery rhythm. As GDDA’s portfolio evolves, the role will expand to support orchestration across additional cross-cutting programs and initiatives within Pharma Commercial.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in program and/or product management, product operations, or cross-functional coordination roles within pharma, life sciences, or large-scale technology organizations.
Experience managing cross-program dependencies and shared resource allocation across complex, matrixed delivery environments.
Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to synthesize program-level data into clear, actionable portfolio insights for senior leadership.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders without direct authority — driving alignment, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through.
Familiarity with digital product development lifecycles, agile delivery practices, and portfolio governance frameworks.
Strong communication skills — can translate complex cross-program dynamics into clear status updates and escalation recommendations.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) or equivalent experience in a program management or product operations context.
Prior experience in a pharma or large-scale tech company in a role focused on cross-program coordination, PMO operations, or digital product delivery.
Experience working with commercialization excellence or enterprise transformation programs.

Responsibilities

Act as GDDA’s accountable lead for digital orchestration of the PACE commercialization excellence program, ensuring alignment across product, delivery, and business stakeholders.
Translate program priorities into clear, actionable product and delivery requirements across GDDA product suites.
Reinforce alignment between program milestones and product roadmaps, enabling resolution where misalignment exists.
Ensure that PACE-related decisions and requirements are communicated clearly to program leads and integrated into cross-suite planning and governance processes.
Orchestrate cross-cutting initiatives across product suites and digital programs, ensuring alignment, sequencing, and integration.
Surface and enable resolution of cross-suite dependencies, sequencing conflicts, and resource constraints across product, program, and delivery teams.
Provide a consolidated PACE digital view (status, dependencies, risks, capacity) to inform product and portfolio decision-making.
Orchestrate planning and execution rhythms — ensuring consistent connection and alignment across program, product, and leadership stakeholders.
Shape and manage global program roadmaps, partnering with RDT to align shared delivery capacity and surface trade-offs.
Enable coordinated digital delivery for priority Pharma Commercial programs, ensuring program milestones are integrated into delivery plans.
Drive execution readiness for key program milestones, ensuring solutions meet program needs, are scalable, integrated, and ready for activation.

Benefits

A healthier future drives us to innovate.
We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future.
We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives.
We are courageous in both decision and action.
And we believe that good business means a better world.
That is why we come to work each day.
We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all.
We do this today to build a better tomorrow.
We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it.
We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.
We are Roche.