Supervisor, Assay Transfer Development

Roche • Tucson, AZ

22h • Onsite

About The Position

At Roche, you are embraced for your unique qualities, with a culture that encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, valuing, accepting, and respecting you to thrive personally and professionally. This approach aims to prevent, stop, and cure diseases, ensuring healthcare access for current and future generations. Roche is driven by a vision for a healthier future, continuously advancing science to provide healthcare access and create more time with loved ones. In this role, you will manage the Assay Transfer team, overseeing budgets, resource allocation, and process characterization to ensure products are robust and sustainable. You will set high standards for efficiency, driving the seamless transition of complex assays across their entire lifecycle.

Requirements

• You have a BS (with 6+ yrs), or a MS (with 4+ yrs), or PhD (with 2+ yrs) in relevant engineering or scientific disciplines.
• Experience in Product design/development, software development, instrument or reagent systems integration, chemistry/reagent design/development, project management and/or marketing management of new products.
• You have a proven track record of driving advanced multiplexing project deliverables; expert in spearheading experimental design and data analysis while maintaining stakeholder alignment across high-complexity initiatives.
• You have strategically guided Assay Transfer’s transition to the Agile framework; currently serves as Product Owner/Team Coach, overseeing planning and navigating organizational change.
• You have expertise in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with a disciplined approach to deadline management, strategic planning, and cross-functional problem-solving.
• You are highly effective at translating complex technical data into actionable insights for stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

• You have previous people management experience
• You have prior technical project management experience
• You are knowledgeable of the end-to-end development process and linkages

Responsibilities

• Works with Assay Care Team leadership to establish overall team direction and goals, and direction of resources toward completion of goals.
• Provides an open, collaborative environment focused on teamwork during reagent product development.
• Establishes and maintains design transfer project milestones and timelines.
• Communicates with product development and operations teams to share information and implement lean, standard development practices.
• Manages production of Pilot Reagent lots used for verification and validation studies at varying scales.
• Interfaces with other Business Units if new products designed in Tucson will be manufactured at other sites.
• Actively explores new methodologies, equipment, processes to improve reagent quality and reduce product cost.
• Manages staff; provides staff with coaching, training and opportunities to develop skills, and gives ongoing, constructive and timely feedback on performance and progress toward goals and expectations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees