Head of Digital Strategy, Excellence & Standards, Global Digital & Data Analytics

We are looking for a strategic leader to shape and drive the digital strategy and excellence agenda for Roche’s Global Data, Digital & AI organisation. Lead the development of enterprise-wide standards, oversee change enablement, and partner with senior leaders to align digital priorities. Ideal for experienced professionals in digital or data leadership within pharma or large-scale tech environments.

• Lead development and evolution of the enterprise GDDA strategy, including mandate definition, ambition setting, and a multi-year capability vision and strategic direction ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and continuous evolution based on value realization and external signals.
• Define and evolve testable, repeatable, and scalable global standards across digital products, data, technology, and ways of working, enabling consistent adoption across markets.
• Engage in enterprise strategic conversations to ensure pharma commercial digital priorities are represented as enterprise strategies are shaped.
• Ensure ongoing strategic alignment of GDDA initiatives with broader Roche Pharma and enterprise priorities.
• Continuously refresh, connect, and groom strategy based on value metrics and external signals to align to pharma commercial goals.
• Lead the design and evolution of the GDDA operating model, including decision rights, governance forums, and product-centric ways of working.
• Shape the broader organizational operating model across Roche Pharma, defining how GDDA interfaces with adjacent organizations.
• Ensure clarity of interfaces, roles, and decision-making boundaries with adjacent organizations to enable a scalable, networked operating model.
• Define the strategic prioritization framework and decision principles, establishing how investments should be evaluated and aligned to business value.
• Define the global vs. local operating model and strategic guardrails, clarifying where capabilities are standardized versus locally adapted across markets, with operationalization through portfolio and product teams.
• Define the enterprise digital capability model and workforce strategy, including critical roles, team structures, and capacity planning required to deliver at scale.
• Set enterprise standards for digital roles, career paths, and skill development, partnering with People & Culture to scale high-performing teams and embed digital capabilities across the organization.
• Design and lead change enablement strategies for GDDA-wide initiatives, ensuring new standards, operating model changes, and capability rollouts are accompanied by structured communications, adoption plans, and stakeholder readiness activities.
• Oversee mechanisms for knowledge sharing, best practice dissemination, and continuous improvement across the digital ecosystem.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing strategy team of managers and analysts, scaling capabilities as the organization evolves.
• Own the digital planning cadence, ensuring coherence across GDDA priorities, initiatives, and outcomes.
• Lead development of executive-level strategic narratives, including key questions, tradeoffs, and decisions required to advance GDDA priorities.
• Advocate for the GDDA mandate across enterprise and above-commercial forums, ensuring GDDA's strategic direction is reflected in senior leadership decisions and providing framing to support program execution.
• Orchestrate across the GDDA leadership team to prepare for key decision moments, stakeholder engagements, and leadership reviews.