Description
At Roche, you can be truly yourself and will be valued for your unique qualities. Our culture fosters personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections. Here, you will be appreciated, accepted, and respected for who you are. This creates an environment where you can grow both personally and professionally. Together, we aim to prevent, stop, and cure diseases and ensure that everyone has access to healthcare—today and in the future. Join Roche, where every voice matters.
The Position
Job description
The Principal Business Analyst possesses in\-depth knowledge of the business domain, relevant technologies, and organizational strategy to provide holistic, enterprise\-wide consulting advice. In this role, you will apply systems thinking to navigate the complexity of interconnected systems, overseeing initiatives with full autonomy and leading analysis efforts across highly ambiguous spaces. Acting as a trusted advisor to leadership, you will actively shape long\-term roadmaps, drive consensus through persuasive communication, and recommend optimal technology solutions for sustainable business transformation.
Description of the area
Job Responsibilities
* Scope / (Content Leadership): Oversees initiatives or streams with autonomy, coordinating complexity and scale. Defines and leads analysis efforts across highly ambiguous spaces, navigates complex frameworks, and delegates work while managing the quality of business analysis content.
* Accountability/Problem Solving: Leads the analysis of business problems, defining the problem space and driving comprehensive root cause analysis that may span organizational boundaries. Proactively prevents scope creep, manages the complexity of various scopes of change, and is ultimately accountable for business analysis deliverables ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives.
* Stakeholder Management: Identifies and engages key stakeholders, including management, across organizational boundaries. Shapes strategy as a trusted advisor to leadership, actively navigates conflicts to achieve alignment, and empowers teams in stakeholder management.
* Impact/Strategy: Drives significant impact on projects and programs by ensuring the delivery of high\-value solutions that align with business strategy. Leads the evaluation of strategic solution options, including advanced value analysis and risk assessment, and actively shapes long\-term roadmaps.
* Complexity / (Product Size): Works typically on a product or product line level, effectively managing highly ambiguous and evolving requirements in dynamic environments. Demonstrates a holistic viewpoint to analyze problems, considering potential micro and macro implications across related domains.
* Business / Technical ability: Uses in\-depth knowledge of the business or technical domain and relevant technologies to inform business strategies. Leads the application of tools, principles, and techniques across complex and cross\-functional initiatives, anticipating challenges and proactively integrating analysis into broader solution design.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
* Extensive experience overseeing initiatives with autonomy, coordinating complexity and scale, and driving alignment across highly ambiguous spaces.
* Demonstrated advanced knowledge of Business Analysis Advisory/Consultancy concepts and practices.
* Proven track record of recommending optimal technology solutions for sustainable business transformation and working on unusually complex problems with highly innovative solutions.
Technical Skills
* Ability to apply systems thinking to provide holistic and enterprise\-wide consulting advice.
* Strong capability to extend standard approaches by tailoring methods to fit the problem space, often combining methodologies to create tailored approaches.
* Mastery in requirements and domain knowledge, with the ability to conduct comprehensive root cause analysis and advanced value and risk assessments.
Additional Qualifications
* Exceptional stakeholder management skills, acting as a role model in teamwork and driving good collaboration across Informatics and business structures.
* Strong dedication to actively contributing to organizational development, including showing leadership in the Community of Practice and acting as a mentor for senior BA practitioners.
Who We Are
A healthier future drives our innovation. More than 100,000 employees worldwide work together to achieve scientific advances and ensure that everyone has access to healthcare—today and for future generations. Through our commitment, over 26 million people are treated with our medicines and more than 30 billion tests are performed using our diagnostic products. We encourage each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and set ambitious goals to deliver life-changing healthcare solutions.
Together, we can shape a healthier future.
Roche is an equal opportunity employer.