Senior Project Manager (North Region)

at  Roche

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The Position
At Roche, we believe it’s critical to deliver medical solutions now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives and we are adventurous in both decision and action. We believe that good business means a better world.
That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigour, unassailable ethics and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.
You’ll be working within the Laboratory Transformation Team (LTT); a dynamic team of experts that is delivering end-to-end customer facing implementations as part of the Technical Services group.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• You will have extensive experience working in project implementations for the pathology labs or similar technologies, and possess a strong understanding of healthcare/pathology practices, ideally including automated laboratory pathology systems and associated data management systems.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent project management qualifications.
• Proven system planner with strong analytical skills, process planning skills, be at ease working with technical information and stakeholder presentations.
• Good understanding and relationship with the North NHS networks is an advantage.
  Who we are
  At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
  Our UK Diagnostics business, headquartered in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, employs approximately 560 highly skilled individuals. We provide the industry’s broadest range of diagnostics and monitoring products & services, spanning all sectors of the market: from small hand held devices used directly by patients or healthcare professionals, to large diagnostic instruments found in hospital laboratories.
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As a Senior Project Manager, based in the North Region, you will be responsible for customer solutions delivery and implementation, covering multidisciplinary business areas of Biochemistry/Immunology/Molecular/Lab Automation. The scope of this opportunity is across the UK, Ireland and Agency countries (Cyprus, Iceland, Israel, Malta). Your team is responsible for laboratory solution design and project delivery, utilising industry-standard methodologies and technical expertise. You will be the helmsman for transforming the lab from status quo through to a purpose designed solution, via change management, backed up by a team of specialists that work around you. This is a field based role split between home office and regular customer site visits, as well as field team meetings and UK head office visits.