Portfolio Lead

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Are you passionate about making a difference? Are you looking to join a team of like-minded people?  At Roche, we are doing now what patients need next, focusing on preventing, stopping or altogether curing diseases with the highest societal burden in order to improve health outcomes and reduce costs for patients and healthcare systems around the world. If you are interested in making a difference in healthcare and creating value then the Portfolio Lead is the role for you.

As a Portfolio Lead at Roche your role is to lead Roche’s portfolio strategy across a defined number of disease areas and support the relevant teams that implement Roche’s solutions in Ireland. You work closely with disease area teams and together translate global strategies into local strategies and activities. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the development and execution of portfolio strategy across a number of disease areas and associated outcome-based plans aligned with business goals. It ensures that a clear vision, high ambition, and defined outcomes for each disease area are realised. Strong cross-functional leadership is essential, fostering collaboration, engagement, and a shared team identity to support sustainable success.

• Driving outcome-based planning by ensuring regular planning meetings and impact retrospectives while promoting a culture of creative feedback. It leverages best practices to create an environment that maximizes patient and business value. Additionally, it ensures accurate commercial forecasting for portfolio brands, strengthening communication and collaboration across functions.

• Enabling resource prioritization with an enterprise mindset, considering affiliate strategies and portfolio priorities. The role also involves coaching and mentoring in commercial skills and capabilities to support team development.

• Fostering strong relationships with global and affiliate colleagues amplifying business effectiveness.

• While primarily office-based, occasional external engagement is expected.

Your profile: 

• University degree (scientific, economic, or business degree). An advanced degree in Life Science and/or MBA is a plus. 

• Prior strategy, sales, marketing, business development or relevant commercial experience is required.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring, helping the development of others

• Excellent understanding of the Irish healthcare ecosystem

• Deep understanding of business drivers, local market & competition would be a plus

• Demonstrated ability to build trust, inspire teamwork and collaboration among others

• Experience leading and/or working in an agile environment

• Capable of identifying opportunities beyond the product and generating customer value based insights

• Strong communication and presentation skills, expressing ideas fluently and eloquently, communicating with impact and influence.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche Products (Ireland) Limited was established as a full affiliate of F. Hoffman-La Roche. The company is based in Citywest in Dublin 24, and deals with the commercial aspects of our Irish business, including sales and marketing, finance, regulatory and medical affairs for the Pharmaceutical Division.