Senior Group Director, Safety Development & Processes

Roche seeks a Senior Group Director for Safety Development & Processes in Basel, CH. This full-time, hybrid leadership role oversees global safety strategy, process design, and team development within the pharmacovigilance domain.

The company is looking for a strategic leader to guide a global team focused on safety development, innovation, and process design. This position ensures that safety-critical workflows align with business goals and continuously improve, while adapting to evolving customer needs and maintaining robust governance across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct leadership and coaching to a worldwide team to maximize individual potential and well-being.
• Establishes and communicates a clear vision and strategy for Safety Development & Processes, ensuring alignment with broader enterprise and pharmacovigilance objectives.
• Collaborates closely with various Pharma functions to address emerging, critical business needs.
• Anticipates and implements improved scientific workflows and effective safety processes to support consistent operations.
• May serve as a formal representative on compliance governance bodies, such as the GxP Council.
• Manages recruitment, onboarding, and strategic deployment of resources across multiple locations based on business priorities.
• Maintains strong relationships with R&D stakeholders and contributes to leadership efforts in scenario planning, prioritization, and budget management.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success in leading global line or matrix teams.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field or qualification as a health professional (e.g., MD, PharmD).
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in patient safety or pharmacovigilance.
• Background typically includes senior roles in the biopharmaceutical industry or a Regulatory Authority.
• Extensive business experience in patient safety, pharmacovigilance, clinical development, medical devices, business performance management, strategic analysis, or process management.
• Deep understanding of establishing, sustaining, and improving safety/PV activities, including adopting innovation.
• Strong analytical thinking skills to design, implement, and review complex cross-functional processes, metrics, and management information systems.
• Excellent communication and influencing abilities to build global collaborations and drive decisions.

Nice to have

• Post-graduate qualification in a PV-relevant area (e.g., PV Diploma, MSc) or business improvement/innovation (e.g., MBA, Lean Sigma certification).

What the company offers

• A culture that encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where employees are valued, accepted, and respected.
• A mission to prevent, stop, and cure diseases while ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.
• An environment that empowers employees to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep ambitions high to deliver life-changing healthcare solutions.

About the company

Roche is driven by a mission to prevent, stop, and cure diseases, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. The company's culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where employees are valued, accepted, and respected for who they are. Scientific rigor, creativity, inclusive teamwork, and exceptional delivery guide the organization to do now what patients need next. Employees are empowered to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep ambitions high to deliver life-changing healthcare solutions.

• Culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where employees are valued, accepted, and respected.
• Mission to prevent, stop, and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.
• Driven by scientific rigor and creativity, inclusive teamwork, and exceptional delivery to do now what patients need next.
• Empowers employees to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep ambitions high to deliver life-changing healthcare solutions.