Sustainability Manager

Roche is seeking a Sustainability Manager in Madrid, Spain, to lead initiatives in the Scope 3 Decarbonisation Centre of Excellence. The role focuses on driving sustainability, compliance, and risk management within Global Procurement, ensuring alignment with Roche's Net Zero commitments. Responsibilities include project execution, collaboration with various teams, and enhancing procurement effectiveness through innovative solutions. The position emphasizes personal expression and a supportive work culture.
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

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity

This role sits within the Strategy and Solutions Chapter, which encompasses a number of different strategic and innovative teams. Our purpose is to guide strategic priorities, advance value delivery through solutions and digital excellence, govern compliance and drive sustainability to deliver continuous improvement and strengthen Global Procurement’s impact on the wider Roche organization.

Within the Strategy and Solutions Chapter, the Global Procurement Sustainability, Compliance & Risk team is focused on enabling Roche to deliver against its Sustainability ambitions and targets, while ensuring a resilient and compliant supply chain.

You will report to the Scope 3 Decarbonisation Centre of Excellence (CoE) Lead, within the GP Sustainability, Compliance & Risk Team. The CoE is a strategic ownership, execution body for Scope 3 decarbonisation roadmap. The CoE oversees and supports the business to own and drive reductions in Scope 3 emissions aligned to Roche's Net Zero commitments and Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validated targets.

As Sustainability Manager in the Scope 3 Decarbonisation Centre of Excellence (CoE), you will bring structured thinking, facilitation, analysis and project execution. Using your specialized knowledge and expertise in sustainability and climate, the role actively drives progress across the CoE’s focus areas; Initiatives and Portfolio Management, Data & Digital Technology, Target management & Reporting, Finance instruments supporting net zero, Engagement, Communication and Change Management.

You will collaborate with internal procurement, business, finance, and other relevant colleagues to understand needs and gather feedback to develop, enhance, or deploy functional enabling services and solutions that increase procurement's effectiveness and efficiency. You will actively support and drive progress on decarbonisation enabler topics, aligned with procurement's role supporting effective and efficient delivery of its climate targets.

You will work closely with other team members, to align, support, and drive decarbonisation enabler topics, develop and deploy tools, templates, and solutions, to decarbonisation communities, stakeholders, and the broader procurement function.

As a Sustainability Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to these core responsibilities:
• You are a sustainability practitioner and developing subject matter expert; developing, delivering and continuously improving tools and reporting approaches aligned to corporate goals
• Execute and continuously improve activities related to our greenhouse gas accounting. This includes all Scope 3 categories with particular focus on activity based/supplier specific accounting for 3.1 and 3.2 (Scope 3 Purchased Goods & Services and Capital Goods)
• Lead/support matrix programmes related to reducing Roche value chain emissions. Analyse and prepare insights on sustainability topics and large/complex data sets
• Support preparation of clear and engaging stakeholder update materials including target progress tracking and decarbonisation programme

Who you are
• You hold a university degree, preferably in life sciences, finance or business
• You have 5+ years relevant experience in heath care/life sciences, supply chain or consulting
• You have technical understanding of current and emerging standards in relation to corporate climate action including Science based targets initiative (SBTI) and Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP)
• You have technical and analytical experience in the context of supply chains and/or sustainability including direct experience of corporate carbon accounting and/or product carbon accounting/life cycle assessment (LCA)
• You have a solid understanding of healthcare industry decarbonisation levers and challenges with experience in delivering sustainability programmes or initiatives
• You have excellent project management and interactive skills, including ability to deliver across multiple programs and sub-workstreams at the same time
• You have strong communication and influencing skills with excellent ability to simplify, i.e. explain complex or higher complexity capability information to others or collect/translate moderate complexity stakeholder requirements in situations requiring alignment and consensus
• You have experience of healthcare risk management, compliance, and supplier management
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.
• You are fluent in English to a Business level

Join our team and enable the strong capability expertise needed to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

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.