Head of Product Continuity

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The Position

The Head of Product Continuity (Senior Product Leader) is accountable for the entire product lifecycle, from initial ideation and strategic planning through to launch, scaling, and eventual retirement of a complex product. This role is pivotal in transforming scientific and business needs into tangible, high-value technology solutions. You will be responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the overarching goals of our organization and ultimately accelerates the delivery of life-changing diagnostics and medicines to patients. This role demands a distinctive combination of scientific inquisitiveness, technical proficiency, and business insight to successfully navigate the landscape.

Your primary objective is to lead engineering and service teams building desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet the evolving needs of our internal users while maintaining strict compliance with relevant industry standards.

Description of the area

The Digital Operations and Reliability function ensures the proactive management and maintenance of the optimal performance, reliability, and availability of all RDT enterprise-wide digital platforms and Infrastructure, minimizing disruption to critical business processes across the value chain, and guaranteeing compliance.

Whenever a continuity event occurs, the Continuity Team leads the Continuity Incident Response Team (CIRT) and evaluates the situation, coordinates the response, and determines which predefined actions from the IT Business Continuity Plan (BCP) need to be implemented for each IT area. By integrating into the IT BCP, each specific area ensures it has the necessary information to effectively respond to the event.

In addition, the Continuity team proactively supports the RDT Functions for the preparation of Disaster Recovery Plans, System Risk Assessments etc. which are key activities for the effective support of Roche processes and solutions.

Job Responsibilities

- Strategy & Vision Accountable for setting the direction for a complex product and ensuring that it achieves business outcomes and financial objectives. Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions. Proactively integrate relevant AI capabilities into the product roadmap. Define, track, and communicate relevant KPIs for the product to measure its performance and contribution to business goals and strategy.