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As a member of the PDT & GSQ Strategy, Portfolio & Operational Excellence team, acts as the Chief of Staff, trusted advisor, strategic partner, and force multiplier to the Head of PDT & GSQ DD&T.
The role strengthens executive and Leadership Team effectiveness by enabling high-quality decisions, disciplined execution of strategic priorities, strong operational governance, effective leadership engagement, and measurable progress against business goals.
Key Accountabilities
Executive Partnership
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Advise and support the Head of PDT & GSQ DD&T on key priorities, leadership topics, stakeholder dynamics, and emerging risks.
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Help maintain focus on the most important issues and provide constructive challenge where needed.
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Handle sensitive business, organizational, and people matters with sound judgment and discretion.
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Act as a core participant in relevant leadership routines and governance forums, ensuring decisions, actions, and escalations are clearly captured and progressed.
Leadership Team Effectiveness
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Own the operating rhythm of the PDT & GSQ DD&T Leadership Team.
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Design and facilitate effective meetings focused on discussion, decisions, accountability, and follow-through.
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Maintain transparent decision and action logs and ensure commitments are closed.
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Reinforce agreed leadership behaviours, team norms, and collective accountability.
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Increase Leadership Team effectiveness by clarifying meeting purpose, decision rights, required contributions, and expected outcomes for each leadership interaction.
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Ensure the Leadership Team spends time on the highest-value strategic, operational, talent, and organizational topics rather than routine status updates.
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Create mechanisms for the Leadership Team to identify, debate, and resolve critical trade-offs, interdependencies, risks, and cross-functional tensions in a timely and constructive manner.
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Facilitate periodic reflection on Leadership Team effectiveness, including what is working, where decision-making or collaboration can improve, and how team behaviours support strategic execution.
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Support effective alignment and engagement of the broader PDT & GSQ DD&T Leadership Forum.
Executive Preparation and Communications
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Prepare the Head of PDT & GSQ DD&T for key executive engagements, business reviews, steering committees, Leadership Team meetings, and strategic workshops.
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Develop concise briefing materials, decision papers, talking points, presentations, and executive communications in close collaboration with the Change Enablement Lead.
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Prepare and coordinate PDT & GSQ DD&T townhalls, including narrative, agenda, content, speaker preparation, and follow-up.
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Anticipate stakeholder positions, key questions, risks, and recommended actions.
Decision Enablement and Follow-Through
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Structure complex topics into clear choices, decisions, owners, and next steps.
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Track key decisions, commitments, risks, and dependencies.
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Follow up with accountable leaders and surface unresolved issues or execution gaps.
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Bring the right stakeholders together or lead initiatives to resolve cross-functional topics.
Business Performance, KPI Management, and Operational Excellence
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Monitor progress against PDT & GSQ DD&T strategic priorities, annual goals, KPIs, risks, and dependencies.
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Analyze performance trends and provide insights, recommendations, and escalation points to improve execution and business outcomes.
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Drive continuous improvement of leadership operating processes, decision governance, meeting effectiveness, and execution discipline.
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Partner with Strategy, Portfolio, Finance, HR, and functional leaders to support prioritization, resource planning, and delivery of key initiatives.
Leadership Alignment and Organizational Effectiveness
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Strengthen collaboration across the Leadership Team and key PDT, GSQ, and DD&T stakeholders.
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Identify misalignment, duplication, unclear ownership, and organizational barriers.
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Strengthen collective accountability by helping leaders connect functional priorities to shared PDT & GSQ DD&T outcomes and by surfacing where ownership or decision rights are unclear.
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Partner with HR and Change Enablement on selected leadership, talent, organization, and communication topics.
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Support the effective use of leadership forums and decision-making processes without duplicating strategy, portfolio, or program ownership.
Change Management, Culture, and Communications
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Support change management activities for priority initiatives, including stakeholder mapping, communication planning, leadership alignment, adoption tracking, and risk mitigation.
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Help foster a collaborative, transparent, and high-accountability leadership culture across PDT & GSQ DD&T.
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Strengthen internal communications and engagement by ensuring key messages are consistent, timely, audience-aware, and aligned to strategic priorities.
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Ensure Leadership Forum, townhall, and broader community touchpoints reinforce PDT & GSQ DD&T priorities, culture, and operating expectations.
Critical Capabilities
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Strong executive presence, judgment, and discretion.
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Excellent facilitation and senior stakeholder management.
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Ability to influence without formal authority.
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Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving.
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Outstanding written and verbal communication.
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High emotional intelligence and organizational awareness.
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Ability to translate ambiguity into clear decisions and action.
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Strong follow-through, resilience, and attention to detail.
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Strong business acumen, performance orientation, and ability to translate strategy into measurable execution plans.
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Experience leading through change, managing stakeholder adoption, and communicating effectively in complex transformation environments.
Experience
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Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
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Minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience in strategy, consulting, operations, transformation, Chief of Staff, or comparable roles.
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Significant experience supporting senior executives and Leadership Teams.
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Proven ability to drive decisions, alignment, accountability, and cross-functional follow-through.
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Experience preparing executive materials, leadership communications, and townhalls.
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Experience in large, global, and matrixed organizations.
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Strong understanding of Digital, Data & Technology organizations.
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Pharmaceutical, life sciences, manufacturing, or another regulated-industry background preferred.
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Experience with KPI tracking, business performance management, operational excellence, or executive governance preferred.
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Experience supporting budget, resource planning, portfolio prioritization, or strategic investment discussions preferred.
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Demonstrated ability to handle highly confidential information and navigate sensitive organizational topics with discretion.
Zurich, Switzerland
Base Salary Range:
CHF177,400.00 - CHF243,980.00
For information about our benefits, please click here.
Employee
Regular
Full time
