Roche
Roche
Roche is a global healthcare and pharmaceutical company focused on advancing patient care through research and development, digital innovation, and collaboration. With a workforce of more than 101,000 employees, the company brings together expertise across technology, manufacturing, business strategy, and other functions that support healthcare innovation. Roche highlights diversity, equity, and inclusion across its international teams and offers career pathways for experienced professionals, students, and graduates, including opportunities connected to its operations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Senior Business Analyst, Pharma R&D – Roche, Warsaw Hybrid

Lead complex business analysis for Roche’s pharmaceutical R&D initiatives, from requirements discovery through strategic solution planning. This hybrid Warsaw role focuses on stakeholder alignment, validated systems, and long-term technology roadmaps.

Description

  • Own business analysis workstreams from initiation through completion.
  • Lead initiatives and workstreams independently with limited oversight.
  • Investigate complex business challenges through domain analysis and root cause research.
  • Produce detailed requirements and uncover gaps between business needs and proposed solutions.
  • Recommend innovative improvements and support solution selection decisions.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Run workshops, mediate disagreements, and build alignment around project objectives.
  • Convert business requirements into strategic implementation plans.
  • Guide near-term decisions while helping shape long-term solution roadmaps.
  • Assess solution effects across both immediate operations and future business priorities.
  • Use requirements, data, usability, and process analysis methods to inform outcomes.
  • Coach junior and mid-level business analysts.
  • Advance team processes, analytical methods, best practices, and Community of Practice initiatives.
  • Support process optimization and broader organizational development.

Requirements

  • At least seven years of experience in business analysis or consultancy.
  • Four or more years of experience in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, or the supported business function.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently run end-to-end business analysis workstreams, clarify ambiguous requirements, and assess strategic solution options.
  • Experience turning requirements into strategic implementation plans that support wider business objectives.
  • Strong communication skills for stakeholder management and discussions between global business and IT users.
  • Working knowledge of Agile product delivery methods.
  • Experience managing product or project backlogs.
  • Experience delivering GxP-validated systems.
  • Advanced understanding of business analysis and consultancy practices, with expertise in at least one BA capability.
  • Strong skills in requirements elicitation, documentation, traceability, and change management.
  • Ability to independently use tools, principles, concepts, and techniques for requirements, data, usability, and process analysis.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
  • Ability to facilitate workshops, resolve conflicts, and establish stakeholder engagement strategies.
  • Commitment to mentoring junior and intermediate business analysts.
  • Proactive approach to process improvement and organizational development.
  • Strong interest in learning and gaining hands-on experience with AI agent workflows.
  • Experience with semantic grounding, structured data pathways, NLP and RAG pipelines, and Veeva or Falcon AI integrations is preferred.

Benefits

  • Performance-based annual bonus.
  • Dedicated budget for training, certifications, conferences, and varied career development paths.
  • Recharge Fridays, with up to two Fridays off available each quarter.
  • Take Time program offering up to three months of leave for any purpose.
  • Vacation subsidy.
  • Flex Location option to work from different places worldwide for a defined period.
  • Up to two weeks of additional paid leave for a charity activity of your choice.
  • Private healthcare through LuxMed packages.
  • Group life insurance through UNUM.
  • Multisport membership.
  • Additional stock share purchase opportunities.
  • Annual sales of company laptops and cars.
  • Discretionary annual bonus targeted at 20%, subject to individual and company performance.
  • Comprehensive benefits package.

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