Regional Capability Lead for Middle East

About Roche

At Roche, individuals are valued and respected, enabling personal and professional growth. The company focuses on preventing, stopping, and curing diseases, aiming to ensure access to healthcare for current and future generations. Roche operates with the principle that every voice contributes to its mission.

Role Overview: Regional Capability Lead, Middle East

Roche is seeking a Regional Capability Lead for the Middle East, based in Riyadh. This full-time role involves shaping healthcare capabilities across the region by combining strategic vision with operational excellence to establish and scale core commercialization capabilities. Initially, this is an individual contributor role with the potential to build and lead a team in the future. The lead will empower commercial, access, regulatory, and medical teams to deliver innovations to patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive capability strategy by conducting functional and cross-functional capability assessments to design strategic learning journeys and build regional capability heat maps.
• Lead regional transformation by guiding and supporting regional change initiatives and organizational development projects aligned with broader healthcare business goals.
• Design and deliver impactful learning experiences, conceptualizing and moderating engaging workshops and training programs (both in-person and virtual) covering scientific, commercial, and behavioral topics.
• Collaborate globally and locally, partnering with internal departments and external stakeholders to represent regional development needs and scale existing training across the organization.
• Build future teams by identifying future skill requirements, aligning regional budgets, and laying the groundwork to recruit, onboard, and coach a future team.

Candidate Profile and Requirements

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial thinker and a collaborative leader capable of translating operational gaps into structured, modern learning experiences within complex environments. This is an individual contributor role without direct reports.

• Educational Background & Domain Expertise: A degree in Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Economics, or equivalent practical experience in operational effectiveness and adult learning.
• Learning & Development Mastery: Proven experience designing curriculums, leveraging blended learning platforms, and applying adult learning pedagogy within the pharmaceutical or healthcare sector.
• Change Management & Transformation: A successful track record of guiding strategic organizational development, managing change, and navigating classic or agile methodologies.
• Strategic Communication & Facilitation: Exceptional moderation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and resolve conflicts constructively.
• Leadership Potential: Demonstrated experience or clear potential to effectively hire, onboard, coach, and develop a high-performing team in the future.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.