Portfolio and Performance Monitoring Specialist – AI-enabled Systems

Job Description

Strategic Insights Specialist | Roche

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Roche, located in Basel, Switzerland. Roche is dedicated to advancing science to prevent, stop, and cure diseases, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. This position is crucial for shaping and running the next generation of Portfolio and Performance monitoring within PT, providing leadership with real-time insights to steer strategic initiatives and operational performance effectively. This builder role offers significant room to influence the approach and grow impact.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Basel, Switzerland

• Team: Strategy Deployment Office (SDO)
• Mission: Design and run a lean, AI-enabled system that provides Roche leadership a real-time view of strategic initiative and operational performance progress.
• Tech Stack: Data visualization or Business Intelligence tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• System Design & Maintenance: Design, build, and maintain lean systems for tracking the status, risks, and value of PT’s strategic initiatives and for monitoring delivery against performance promises using KPI frameworks and dashboards.
• Automation & AI Integration: Identify, pilot, and embed AI-enabled tools to automate data collection, reporting, and insight generation, thereby reducing manual effort and increasing speed and accuracy.
• Cross-functional Engagement: Act as an ambassador to build and energize a network of contributors and champions across Operations, ensuring data quality and broad adoption of the monitoring system.
• Process Optimization: Continuously assess the maturity of existing monitoring processes, removing complexity and standardizing where it adds value without overengineering.
• Strategic Insight Delivery: Translate system data into clear, actionable insights, compelling visual stories, and concise updates for PT leadership and stakeholders, supporting regular governance rhythms for key decisions.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Master’s Degree in Engineering, Life Science, Business Administration, Data/Analytics, or related fields.
• Experience: 2-5 years of experience in business analytics, operations, PMO, or performance management, ideally within the pharma, life science, or a related industry.
• Skills: Hands-on experience with data visualization or Business Intelligence tools, a lean mindset (simplifying before automating), strong communication and visual storytelling abilities, capable of building and energizing a community, high attention to detail balanced with pragmatism, and deep curiosity for new AI and digital tools.
• Bonus: Site experience, familiarity or certification in Lean and Project Management, exposure to or strong interest in AI and automation tools applied to reporting and process design, and experience working in a complex organization with multiple stakeholders and established governance cadences.