User Team Lead, HTO Expansion (Assembly and Packaging)

About the role

The Position Hillsboro Technical Operations (HTO) is a drug product & finished goods manufacturing organization responsible for the reliable delivery of Roche’s commercial portfolio & pipeline products. The Manufacturing organization at HTO has two functions, Aseptic Filling Operations and Finished Goods, which combine to produce millions of units of life‑saving medicine every year to patients around the world.

Responsibilities

• As a member of the HTO Expansion Project Leadership Team, report to the HTO Site User Team Lead and spearhead efforts to expand Hillsboro site manufacturing capacity from start‑up of new syringe inspection, device assembly and packaging assets to commercialize operations for new products.
• Manage the Assembly, Packaging, and Visual Inspection Cascadia project to ensure all programs are delivered on time.
• Align the site expansion with existing operations and corporate operating principles, pharma vision and network strategies.
• Facilitate the successful operational startup of the Finished Goods facility to achieve long‑term strategic goals for HTO and enable full deployment of new assets and new products.
• Work in close collaboration with global network leaders, peers in the HTO Manufacturing Leadership Team, and the PT Manufacturing team.
• Drive the translation of network plans to the site level and vice versa.
• Gain a deep understanding of long‑term business needs, identify people and operational performance gaps, and actively shape strategic priorities in alignment with site and network leadership.
• Lead the development and implementation of management strategies and goals for the site expansion.
• Lead and coordinate the Assembly, Packaging, and Visual Inspection operational startup of the expansion.
• Establish, onboard and lead the user team members with all required site functions (production, maintenance, reliability, commissioning), coordinate their activities, acquire necessary resources, and work as one project team.
• Form a partnership with the capex project management team to deliver the site expansion project.
• Represent the site perspective regarding project deliverables during Basic Design, Detailed Design, qualification and ramp‑up phases, providing information and knowledge needed to design and test associated equipment.
• Proactively provide process requirements, coordinate production needs and impacts, and establish a transition strategy for new technology integration into the existing site while maintaining HTO commercial business success.
• Act as a crucial thought partner to the HTO Site and Manufacturing Leadership Team.
• Ensure site alignment with key stakeholders across the Roche Network and local HTO partners.
• Partner with site and network people and culture leaders to drive site workforce strategy to enable full deployment of new filling assets and new products.
• Support efforts to cultivate an environment that makes Genentech/Roche and the site a great place to work.
• Actively shape organizational operating models.
• Deliver insights and recommendations that accelerate transformation and strategy.
• Lead change on the site level and role model Leadership Commitments.
• Represent the Finished Goods (Visual Inspection, Assembly, and Packaging) end‑user team from design through implementation.