Team Lead ERP Travel & Expense Management (m/f/d)

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The Position

Let’s build a healthier future together. At Roche, your work directly contributes to improving patients' lives, giving them more time with their loved ones.

As Team Lead ERP Travel & Expense Management (Product Manager) (m/f/d), you are the architect of our operational excellence, ensuring our technical solutions enable complex requirements for senior stakeholders. Your vision and leadership are the compass guiding us through digital transformation.

Description of the area

The Travel & Expense Management Product consists of a complex, integrated landscape encompassing SAP Concur (Travel, Expense, and Intelligence), SAP ECC and S/4HANA, and Snowflake for analytics and compliance reporting. You will ensure total business continuity by managing and monitoring the critical middleware and integration layers that connect these components. Beyond technical stability, the role focuses on driving value through strategic SaaS vendor management and continuous service optimization.

This position serves as a key technical enabler for the Roche OneT&E vision, understanding and supporting business strategy of standardisation, optimization of travel policies, compliance, and corporate credit card initiatives. By aligning with Business Stakeholders (RSS and Global Procurement), you will ensure the seamless delivery of T&E technology for One T&E Strategy as well as major enterprise programs, including ASPIRE (Global S/4 HANA Program) and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). This area involves translating business efficiency programs into technical reality, ensuring all solutions are delivered with the quality and timing necessary to support global organizational goals.

The Opportunity

In this role, you are accountable for the entire lifecycle of the "Travel & Expense Management" product – from the initial idea and strategic roadmap to scaling and retirement. You are the driving force behind the Roche OneT&E vision, translating complex business needs into high-value and compliant technology solutions.

In addition, this role will be responsible for various Demand to Pay Value Stream topics, driving consistent ways of working and delivery excellence across the board. This brings an opportunity to showcase your experience and also develop in areas such as portfolio management, technical roadmap collation, workforce planning, project management (e.g. M&A) and financial management and reporting.

• Strategy & Vision: You define the product strategy and roadmap for SAP Concur (Travel & Expense), SAP S/4HANA, and Snowflake analytics in alignment with global corporate goals, proactively integrating modern AI capabilities.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: You work closely with partners such as Global Procurement and RSS, manage expectations in major programs like ASPIRE, and ensure seamless integration into the IT landscape.

• Leadership & Development: You lead a multidisciplinary technical team, foster agile ways of working, and create an environment where innovation and continuous learning thrive.

• Performance & Optimization: You define success metrics (KPIs), use data analytics to optimize user satisfaction, and are responsible for business cases and resource planning for your area.

• Compliance & Quality: You ensure that all solutions are operated sustainably, in compliance with regulations (e.g., GxP, GDPR), and securely.

Who you are

You are an inspiring leader with a deep understanding of complex IT ecosystems and the ability to engage people around a shared vision.

• You hold a degree in IT, Bioinformatics, or a comparable field.

• You bring extensive professional experience (at least 6-8 years) in product management or business analysis, with at least 2 years in a regulated environment (Pharma/Biotech).

• You have experience (3+ years) in the process area of travel & expense management and a track record of delivering and supporting relevant IT solutions and integration

• You have a proven track record (at least 1 year) of successfully leading and developing multidisciplinary technical teams.

• You have experience in agile ways of working (SAFe), related ceremonies, and team optimisation

• Solid knowledge of modern software architectures (microservices, APIs, cloud), SAP Concur, and familiarity with data science and AI/ML concepts.

• Strong communication skills in English, the ability to confidently present complex issues to executives, and a solution-oriented mindset.

Your application

Please provide us with the following documents:

Current CV in english language

No further documents are required at this time. Please note that no further documents can be added after the application has been submitted.

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