Global Business Product Owner
Roche
Global Business Product Owner
Roche
Global pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company
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.
As a business product owner, you will work within an agile team, contributing to the creation and delivery of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products and solutions that fulfill customer needs. This role requires close collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals and user requirements throughout the product development lifecycle.
You aren’t just a backlog manager; you are the strategic bridge between digital learning innovation and business value. You understand that a great learning experience isn't just about pushing content—it’s about engagement, seamless architecture, and driving a clear return on investment.
To thrive in this role, you should bring a mix of the following skills, mindsets, and experiences:
Vendor Fluency
B2B / External Mindset: Understands the high level of polish, security, and value required when building platforms for external customers vs. internal training.
Data & Architecture Thinking: Partners with IT architects to ensure seamless, scalable, and simple end-to-end learning data flows.
Agile Execution: Collaborates closely with Dev, UX, and QA teams to translate a broad business vision into crisp, actionable user stories.
Stakeholder Diplomacy: A master communicator who aligns senior leadership, business process owners, and diverse teams with clarity and empathy.
Continuous Improvement: Monitors support data, user feedback, and SLAs to ensure the platform constantly evolves post-launch.
Additional Tasks:
Experience: 3-5+ years as an Agile Product Owner or Product Manager.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, or a related field; Agile certifications (CSPO/PSPO) preferred.
Ecosystems: Strong grasp of learning ecosystems (LMS/LXP).
B2B / External Focus: Proven track record managing digital platforms for
external clients or commercial customers (not just internal HR training).
Business Acumen: Ability to build data-driven business cases, define KPIs, and ruthlessly prioritize backlogs based on ROI.
Technical Literacy: Comfortable partnering with IT architects on data flows, platform integrations, and system scalability.
Roche Culture Fit (We@RD): Demonstrates a mindset for radical simplification, data-driven experimentation, and leading without direct authority.
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.
Roche is a global leader in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. It develops medicines and diagnostic tools that help detect, monitor, and treat diseases, using research and biotechnology to drive new therapies and tests. Roche combines drug development with in-house diagnostic products to support personalized medicine, where treatments are tailored to individual patients based on test results. Its approach differs from many peers by integrating drug discovery with diagnostic capabilities and by expanding its research through strategic acquisitions (like Genentech) to strengthen its biotechnology and R&D capabilities. The company’s goal is to improve patient outcomes and healthcare worldwide by delivering reliable medicines, accurate diagnostic tests, and data-driven care.
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