Senior Group Director, Safety Development & Processes

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The Position

 At Roche, our Global Product Development Safety & Risk Management (PDS) department aims to enhance healthcare for patients by elucidating and communicating the safety profile of Roche medicines to optimise their benefit-risk profile.

The Opportunity

The Senior Group Director of Safety Development & Processes (SDP)  provides strategic leadership, expertise and oversight for a global team in the design, development, implementation and coordination of activities relating to safety development, innovation, process design and continuous improvement, on behalf of PDS.

As a member of the PVSD Leadership Team, the Senior Group Director leads the global SDP function across 4 global product development sites (Basel in Switzerland, South San Francisco in the USA, Welwyn in the UK, and Mississauga in Canada).

The role ensures that safety-critical processes are designed, developed, ‘owned’ and supported in line with business requirements and continuous improvement goals.

They ensure that pilots, projects and major programs, intended to improve scientific safety approaches, are delivered or coordinated in line with agreed plans.

They are also responsible for ensuring that PDS ‘ways of working’ adapt to changing customer requirements, and that the wider PDS community have access to expert advice in support of their efforts to deliver value to drug development and patient risk management. 

The Senior Group Director is responsible for ensuring the SDP team fosters innovation, anticipates and acts on significant new developments or improvements required to PDS ways of working, and provides effective input to future enablement strategies in PDS. 

The Senior Group Director leverages the strengths of a diverse global team and creates an inspiring environment where the SDP team members feel empowered to take ownership of deliverables, build knowledge and deploy resources effectively, always striving for continuous improvement and innovation.  They are accountable for the implementation and functioning of defined global and/or functional process(es), including the links with associated systems/tools design/development, across the broad safety-related areas of the team's remit.

The SDP team's remit spans the following main areas:



* The design, development, maintenance, oversight, and continuous improvement of the Safety processes in compliance with GVP, GCP, and Medical Device domains.


* Sustaining the organisation’s ability to execute  Safety processes through...