Digital Strategy Analyst

Job description

·  Job facts

Who we are

The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) is a business function within Product Development (PD), Roche's late-stage clinical development organization. The DTO offers services and products to PD that develop or extend critical business capabilities (e.g. knowledge & information management, digital transformation of specific business processes, capability-based planning).

The Digital Transformation Strategy (DTS) team is charged with identifying and developing opportunities for digital advancement to improve PD's business operations, enable agile ways of working and support the delivery of business change. Our main focus is to advance PD's ability to assure and improve findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (FAIR) of critical information across Roche. Timely access to quality information & insights is essential for bold decisions delivered quickly - be they in support of a clinical hypothesis, in aid of agile teams addressing operational challenges or in support of executive portfolio decisions.

The position

As a member of the DTO Strategy Team, the Digital Strategy Analyst will have the following responsibilities/duties:

·  Lead and drive requirements gathering, business needs assessment and scoping of solution options in close collaboration with colleagues from IT and outside vendors
·  Provide business analysis and problem-solving support to the DTS team in developing and maintaining technology-agnostic business capability roadmaps
·  Support, or lead aspects of, the development and implementation of our knowledge & information management strategies
·  Support, or lead aspects of, the development of our capability-based planning (CBP) tools and services.
·  Participate and support the conduct of strategy workshops - principally by preparing/designing the agenda, processing and communicating the outputs.

·  Establish and maintain relationship with key stakeholders – principally by actively participating in meetings, including presenting aspects of your work and capturing the business needs
·  Conduct primary & secondary research on industry best practices and emerging trends to inform internal maturity assessments and opportunity analyses

Who we are

At Roche, 94,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Desired profile

Who you are

The position will be based in Basel (CH). Given the cross-functional and global nature of our work, this role will require a high degree of flexibility, quick learning, and exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills with all levels of the organization. We expect a candidate who is committed to ownership, takes accountability for actions, drives for results and learns from mistakes.

You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Information Management, Engineering, and 3+ years of business analysis & digital product development experience, ideally, paired with 2+ years of operational experience in a global environment.

For this position, you also bring the following:

·  Ability to surface business needs with business SMEs and communicate business expectations to cross-functional teams in jargon-free English
·  Ability to explore independently complex business problems and drive co-creation of innovative “solutions” with x-functional teams
·  Experience with business architecture modelling (e.g. Archimate, Alfabet) & visualisations (e.g. R Shiny, Tableau) is a plus
·  Strong conceptual understanding of data modelling, data & content curation and information architecture is a plus
·  Experience working in agile teams as Scrum Master and/or Product Owner is a plus
·  Experience in gathering business requirements and dealing with conflicting requirements
·  Project management experience on a regional/global scale, incl. business case creation, portfolio management process knowledge
·  Proven skills in relationship building, customer-focus, decision-making, and problem-solving
·  Ability to recognize and react to situations with a sense of urgency and problem ownership/ accountability, with a focus on customer service
·  Good domain knowledge of the Pharmaceutical industry
·  Excellent presentation, meeting facilitation and communications skills (written and verbal in English, other languages are a plus)
·  Positive and enthusiastic attitude and interpersonal skills
·  Business Analysis certification (IIBA or equivalent) is a plus
·  Ability to travel (c. 10%)

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