Global Workplace Strategist at Roche in Basel

Global Workplace Strategist

Location: Basel

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

At Roche, we believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives and we are fearless in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

Global Workplace and Real Estate is a vital enabling function responsible for shaping and managing the environments where our colleagues do their best work. Our team’s purpose is to help Roche make confident, future-ready decisions about space, investment, and workplace experience — balancing business performance, sustainability, and people needs. As a trusted partner and global leader in real estate and workplace, our vision is to create inclusive, engaging, and sustainable environments that support the success of our people and the future of Roche.

As the Global Workplace Strategist, you support the Global Lead for Workplace Experience and are responsible for developing and implementing innovative workplace strategies that align with our organizational goals and enhance the employee experience across our global portfolio.

Acting as a definitive subject matter expert, you drive the delivery of local workplace strategies and guide the implementation of local change engagement projects. By collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners — from real estate to design and fit-out teams — you ensure that our workplaces foster collaboration, promote well-being, and enable operational efficiency and growth. You apply your diverse skillset to translate complex qualitative and quantitative data into actionable spatial strategies that actively drive innovation and productivity.

The Opportunity

• Data-driven space demand: evaluate occupancy and business data to align the real estate footprint with evolving business requirements. Possess an expert-level grasp of core workplace metrics and methodologies to autonomously set global capacity recommendations. Proactively manage local data discussions and independent data capture to translate complex local business occupancy data into real estate footprint recommendations.
• Workplace strategy delivery: develop comprehensive workplace strategies that align with Roche’s goals, enhancing employee experience, efficiency, and sustainability. Gather and analyze workplace data (including space occupancy and surveys), lead user workshops to capture functional requirements, and leverage industry trends to define local workplace optimization and inform strategic decision-making.
• Change engagement guidance: provide strategic guidance on local change engagement initiatives tied to workplace transformations, ensuring smooth transitions and high adoption of new workplace behaviors.
• Stakeholder dialogue & alignment: collaborate with key stakeholders across People & Culture, IT, Facilities Management, and Business Units to ensure successful workplace transformations.
• Continuous improvement: drive the continuous evolution of our global workplace and change engagement standards, toolkits, and templates by actively integrating internal project learnings and best practices. Leverage peer-to-peer exchanges and a keen understanding of emerging industry trends to ensure our workplace processes remain highly innovative.

What you bring

• Education: University degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent) in Real Estate, Architecture, Design, Workplace Strategy, Organizational Psychology, or a related field.
• Experience: 7+ years of experience with a proven track record in developing and executing workplace strategies, driving spatial analytics, and successfully delivering complex strategic projects.
• Specialist expertise: possesses in-depth specialist knowledge in workplace change management, with a proven track record of leading complex transformation projects and cross-functional initiatives.
• Analytical influence: excellent analytical and quantitative skills required to interpret data, derive actionable insights, and translate complex information into strategic recommendations.
• Stakeholder management: outstaanding communicator and natural problem solver, adept at creatively negotiating workplace topics with local users and skilled in engaging and leading executive discussions to drive decision-making.
• Mindset: highly results-oriented, business-driven, and organized with strong attention to detail. An innovative and creative self-starter with the ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, and collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
• Language: full professional proficiency in English (spoken and written) is required; German or another second language is a strong plus.

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.