Job Description

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

Who We Are

A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That's what makes us Roche.


We envision an environment where partnerships are common sense, where Roche is the preferred partner in healthcare, where we always think about achieving better patient outcomes through collaboration with the ecosystem, where our sites are a true enabler of partnerships that deliver better patient outcomes.


The mission of the Clinical Supply Chain Management organization is to ensure the right product reaches the right place at the right time--every time--so that no patient goes without treatment and no clinical trial is delayed. This global role ensures seamless supply of all assigned clinical studies across defined markets, customers, and patients worldwide.

The Opportunity

As the Global Head of Global Clinical Supply Chain Management, you will lead and ensure a seamless supply of all assigned clinical studies to defined markets, customers, and patients worldwide. You will lead a global team of 300+ FTEs across Switzerland, USA and Canada, overseeing demand, supply and budget planning, supply chain design, packaging and label development as well as execution of packaging, and local storage.


You will play a pivotal role in creating, shaping and executing the end-to-end clinical supply strategy. As an outstanding leader, role modeling Roche leadership commitments, you will coach, empower and inspire people to thrive. You will foster a culture of innovation, and drive operational excellence to successfully deliver patient-focused outcomes.

Your Key Responsibilities

As the Global Head of Global Clinical Supply Chain Management, you will lead the end-to-end planning and execution of clinical trial supplies. This includes demand and supply planning for all drug products, budget forecasting, supply chain design per trial, patient kit and label development, as well as operational execution of packaging and global distribution.


You are responsible for and foster a seamless collaboration with clinical operations and the broader drug product supply organization, aligning strategies and operations to enable trial success and deliver critical medicines to patients.


As a People Leader

You will lead a large global organization by successfully coaching and motivating talent and you will actively support the career growth of your team members. You build and maintain stable partnerships with senior key stakeholders to ensure a cross functional collaboration and a maximum impact.

As a Strategic Leader

You lead organizational innovation by building and implementing creative strategies that enhance efficiency, and long-term impact. You optimize financial stewardship by managing functional budgets, project variable costs, inventory holding, and waste, while setting and achieving ambitious departmental targets. You ensure CMC productivity and uncompromising compliance with GMP, regulatory, and trade requirements, safeguarding operational excellence and business continuity.

Global Planning & Global Production Readiness

You will establish and lead global supply strategies for all clinical programs. You lead and drive forecasting and planning to deliver manageable API, DP, and packaging plans. You oversee PTD(S) Network Planning and run a PTD S&OP process. You will deliver simulations to increase efficiency, speed, and cost savings and you provide budget forecasts and sourcing for commercial and comparator drugs. You ensure packaging order readiness and manage external packaging operations, sourcing activities, and labeling processes.

Global Operations & Distribution

You lead the design of packaging solutions across all trial phases. You will oversee in-house packaging, labeling and warehousing operations and will establish compliance, quality, and continuous improvement processes. You manage manufacturing assets and capital spending strategies and you lead the global clinical supplies distribution network and logistics service providers. You ensure import/export compliance and will own the global distribution strategy, establishing and driving environmental sustainability initiatives.

Who You Are

You are an exceptional leader who consistently embodies our leadership commitments, inspiring others and fostering trust and collaboration, ensuring accountability for sustainable results.


Recognized for your strategic agility, you are highly adept at crafting a compelling vision supported by long-term business plans, and an underpinning strong business acumen as well as a profound financial expertise.


With your proven leadership- and outstanding influencing skills, you have successfully built and developed high-performing teams in the past to deliver excellence. You feel comfortable in complex and rapidly evolving environments, maintaining focus on priorities while ensuring tangible outcomes at the same time.


As a sound communicator across all levels, you engage with and influence senior stakeholders cross-functional. Through your strategic foresight and decisive action, you bring clarity to complexity and guide the organization toward long-term, sustainable success.



More specifically, you have

Extensive working experience, and deep expertise in leading Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, or Regulatory functions, preferably in the Biotechnology / Pharmaceutical industry Masters degree in Life Sciences, Engineering or Business (Operations Management or Supply Chain Management), MBA or advanced degree preferred Exceptional knowledge in a wide array of industry supply chain practices and with outsourcing Track record in LEAN, operational excellence and business process management as well as delivering exceptional business results and delivering impact APICS CPIM, CIRM certifications is a plus Knowledge of SAP and Digital Tools Fluency in written and verbal English and conversational German language is desirable

Location : Basel/Kaiseraugst


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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer.