Global Project Manager

Roche•Indianapolis, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Global Project Manager acts as the operational backbone of the Life Cycle, ensuring strategic traceability, transparency, and seamless team enablement. While leadership owns strategic decisions and empowered product teams own delivery, the POL ensures that strategy translates cleanly into execution through dependency visibility and operational intelligence. By actively reducing friction, absorbing operational overhead, and integrating our operating model into daily workflows, the POL acts as a servant-leader. They shield the product core from administrative bureaucracy, guaranteeing the teams have the space and focus required for continuous product discovery and delivery.

Requirements

Minimum Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering or business related fields; higher level degree
Experience with Agile development practices and mindset
Minimum 5 years project management experience in the diagnostic, medical device, pharmaceutical or biotech industry leading complex new, product development and product care projects
Experience in a regulated industry (e.g. FDA 21 CFR part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 9001)
Demonstrated effective management of projects or ARTs

Nice To Haves

PMP Certification as well as SAFe Certification highly preferred
Experience in companion diagnostic development, analytical and clinical validations and regulatory submissions or instrument development and program management is a plus

Responsibilities

Ensures a clean, continuous link between Portfolio Epics and Life Cycle goals, cascading this strategic context down to the product groups.
Maintains consistency across the Life Cycle’s execution systems (e.g., Jira, Orion, Monday.com).
Guarantees a reliable, consolidated data source for tracking the Life Cycle’s overall investments, business viability, capacity, and risks.
Analyzes operational metrics across the entire Life Cycle to proactively identify and resolve structural bottlenecks before they impact the delivery capabilities of individual product teams.
Drives the organic adoption of the RIS Operating Model (including PLCF and mQMS) at the Life Cycle level.
Facilitates Life Cycle-level risk and opportunity management (ROMA) and coordinates critical integration points between different Life Cycles.
Identifies and resolves critical dependencies and integration points across different Life Cycles, maintaining organizational coherence and minimizing flow disruptions.
Continuously refines and simplifies operational processes in close coordination with the RIS Business Operations & Strategic Planning team.
Establishes consistent frameworks for measuring business results (outcomes) rather than output.