Global Product Planning Lead for Molecular and Pathology Reagents – Molecular Pathology Reagents

Job Description

Global Product Planning Lead – Pathology & Molecular reagents | Roche

The Tone:
This is a full-time leadership role at Roche, a global company dedicated to advancing science and ensuring healthcare access worldwide. Roche focuses on preventing, stopping, and curing diseases through its medicines and diagnostic products. This position plays a pivotal role in the global supply chain, leading a team to strategically manage inventory and operational execution, thereby ensuring life-saving diagnostics reach patients consistently and reliably across the globe.

The TL;DR
• Role: Managerial/Lead
• Type: Full-time

• Team: Leads a team of 6 global product planners.
• Mission: Balances strategic inventory targets with high-performance operational execution to ensure life-saving diagnostics reach patients when and where they are needed most.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Team Leadership: Lead and empower a talented team of 6 global product planners, providing direct leadership and strategic direction while nurturing their confidence and professional growth.
• Global Supply Orchestration: Translate complex market signals into synchronized manufacturing plans, coordinating production volumes directly with manufacturing sites around the globe.
• Sales & Operations Planning: Lead divisional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes to foster collaboration, shared accountability, and robust long-term volume alignment.
• Disruption Management: Oversee critical bottleneck resolution and mitigation processes during unpredictable supply chain or geopolitical disruptions to secure global supply continuity.
• Strategic Partnerships: Act as a key strategic partner to lifecycle teams, direct procurement, and functional heads to smoothly manage product launches, changeovers, and regulatory transitions.
• Network Optimization: Define global inventory objectives and safety stock recommendations across international hubs, balancing transport strategies (sea vs. air) to maximize efficiency and reduce environmental impact.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Master’s degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or a related business field.
• Experience: 7 to 10 years of deep experience in international logistics and direct people leadership.
• Skills: Analyzing complex data structures and raw data metrics to derive clear, actionable insights; presenting highly specialized data, strategic forecasts, and technical solutions clearly to international functions and executive leadership teams; harmonizing workflows across diverse, cross-functional global settings.
• Bonus: Demonstrated track record of building bridges across complex global networks and utilizing structured methodologies like Six Sigma.