Team Lead - Procurement Delivery Operations- Direct, Research & Lab and CAPEX (Engineering)
About this opportunity
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.
The Position
The Team Lead Procurement Delivery Operations- Direct, Research & Lab and CAPEX (Engineering) brings analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using their specialized knowledge and expertise in Direct, Research & Lab and CAPEX (Engineering) categories of spend areas and procurement overall, the role proactively identifies and drives opportunities to maximize team delivery effectiveness.
The Team Lead Procurement Delivery Operations- Direct, Research & Lab and CAPEX (Engineering)
collaborates with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Delivery, Portfolio and Resource management, etc.) and functional management to contribute and implement a best-in-class procurement delivery capability. The role focuses on coordinating and allocating assignments and ensures balanced team utilization and consistent application of procurement methodologies. The Expert contributes to continuous improvement projects, and supports the team by removing impediments and blockers.
The role leads a team of Procurement Specialists and Experts, and works with them to best allocate activities and will align with other Delivery team supervisors to optimize overall resource utilization. Depending on the specific position, the role is accountable for managing resourcing activities and talent development of a medium sized team, with a focus on optimizing utilization, and ensuring alignment between team member competencies and development needs with work assignments.
Core Roles and Responsibilities
The Team Lead Procurement Delivery Operations- Direct, Research & Lab and CAPEX (Engineering) will play a variety of roles according to their experience, knowledge, area of expertise, and the general team requirements, including but not limited to:
Category and sourcing subject matter expert evaluating the project requests and business needs coming in to best allocate them to the team members. In addition, the role can conduct market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, and guidance on tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements.
Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies and major initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and project management skills, and/or supporting team members in enhancing their skills and knowledge.
Content and automation developer translating sourcing strategy into content, automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency, and/or supporting and guiding team members in the execution.
The Team Lead Procurement Delivery Operations - Direct, Research & Lab and CAPEX (Engineering) will work within the capability team, networks, and squads/project teams to determine the various roles the expert can take to deliver or support others in both project and foundational work.
The role’s successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.
Who we are
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.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Procurement role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 77 comparable Procurement roles across 15 biopharma companies.
Salary context
9 of 77 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 77 comparable roles
+ 9 more countries
Seniority mix
52 of 77 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 77 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.