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"&lt;h3&gt;The Position&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is “Insights & Solutions”?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Insights & Solutions is a new team within GP, focused on co-creating, delivering, implementing and enhancing solutions for complex business challenges and opportunities. Some of these challenges might revolve around the implementation of digitized and digitalized labs, increased buying experience and improving researchers’ activities. We work by connecting external market capabilities to internal Roche needs, co-creating innovative external market offerings, and providing market insights and intelligence. This is an exciting new area where you can develop cross-functional expertise, explore your passions and deliver significant, long-term value to Roche beyond the traditional Procurement value chain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you wondering what is in it for you?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Are you interested in further developing your broad set of skills, cross-functional expertise and learning a wide-range of exciting R&D opportunities and challenges to support the business? Here is why we think the Senior Market Solution Manager - Research & Development Solutions (“Solutions Manager”) role is a fantastic job to consider!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We are looking for one Senior Market Solution Manager to join our exciting and new Global R&D Insights and Solutions Team. We are looking to recruit an outstanding candidate in either Basel, Penzberg, Mannheim, Madrid or Welwyn. Successful candidates are expected to spend the majority of their working time on campus. &lt;u&gt;Successful candidates residing outside Basel are expected to regularly travel to Basel for approximately 10% of their working time&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;As the Market Solution Manager for Research & Development Solutions, you will work in a dynamic global environment to help the business to address and implement complex challenges by bringing in new market opportunities. You will work alongside the business and with our Productivity, Market Intelligence, Tech&Digital and Customer Excellence teams to understand business challenges and help the business to scout, implement, run and enhance Research and Development solutions. As a new team, it is envisioned that the initial focus areas within Research & Development Solutions revolve around the enhancement of the R&D Laboratory Ecosystem and lab automation (data and robots). However, this focus area may evolve based on future market opportunities and changing customer needs and priorities. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your key responsibilities include&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;As a Market Solutions Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general requirements, including but not limited to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In collaboration with the business and with various GP teams, you will drive and coordinate all steps required for the development of R&D solutions, including but not limited to ideation, scouting, support of concept creation, proof of concept, scaling and cross-fertilization of solutions to the wider Roche community;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You will act as a domain knowledge and subject matter expert, providing input, advice, and know-how in the market analysis framework and network - while assessing the complex niche requests that get raised to create a broader overview of business trends;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You will develop and lead the identification, refinement, and risk management of frameworks, tools, and realization approaches, using an in-depth understanding of the business portfolio to build a strategy to shift from procurement-focused insights to proactively attenuating the needs of the business directly; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You will advocate and influence, focused on leading and advising across business stakeholders to align on and co-create solutions to connect procurement and business questions to market knowledge;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You will be responsible for creating, maintaining and nurturing GP and Roche-wide collaborations, for instance by promoting cross-functional, cross-division working teams, bringing prioritization, consistency and strategic direction. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who you are&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You hold a Master degree in life science, computer science, computer engineering, engenieering or business. Higher degrees are a strong plus. You also have  7+ years within either research operation, Digital&Tech, Data&Analytics, IT, procurement and/or consulting, ideally in a matrix organization. You also demonstrated success in building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Moreover, ideal candidates have: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In-depth experience with either Research operations, Research or Lab ecosystems, Digital&Tech or Data&Analytics; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Have demonstrated experience delivering strategies, market expertise, and innovation across R&D categories or markets; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Demonstrated success in building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Navigated across ambiguous areas in a flexible, matrix, and rapidly changing environment;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Familiarity with artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML); successful candidates have demonstrated capabilities to make these skills useful for researchers in the form of process improvement solutions;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Business level fluency in English; other languages are a plus; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;In addition:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;You have a growth mindset and look at failures as opportunities to improve. Your thinking reflects viewing your abilities, talents, and intelligence as skills you can grow and improve upon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Roche defined an exciting 10-year ambition plan, requiring us to adapt and transform to our evolving ecosystem and challenges ahead of us. To ensure we can succeed in this new environment and deliver on our mission for patients, Global Procurement (GP) is transforming to build new capabilities to “accelerate Roche’s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Who we are&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;At Roche, more than 100,000 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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. &lt;a href=\"http://www.roche.ch/en/standorte/basel-hq.htm\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"
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