Executive Director, Functional Analytics & Insights

Executive Director, Functional Analytics & Insights Position Summary

Why Genentech

We're passionate about delivering on Our Promise to improve the lives of patients and create healthier communities for all. We foster a culture of inclusivity, integrity and creativity while boldly pursuing answers to the world's most complex health challenges and transforming society.

About SAI

Strategic Analytics & Intelligence (SAI) empowers business partners across Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) to make impactful decisions by leveraging data, analytics, and AI/ML to enable fast, targeted actions in rapidly evolving business contexts.

SAI fosters a unified understanding of customers, actions, and outcomes by integrating analytics and insights seamlessly into CMG's evolving digital, data, and automation platforms, creating scalable solutions and eliminating silos.

Job Summary:

The Executive Director of Functional Analytics & Insights within Strategic Analytics and Intelligence (SAI) partners with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable analytics and insights that drive operational efficiencies and strategic decision-making across key business areas. This role focuses on aligning analytics initiatives with organizational priorities to optimize performance and enable data-driven strategies across functions.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and advise members of USLT, GEC, Roche PLT, and partners across CMG (including Medical and PAA/GA leadership), Global Product Strategy, Roche Finance (ECOE), Investor Relations, Roche Corporate Strategy, and others as needed to deeply understand business needs, trends, challenges, and key questions, ensuring that US insights and analytics service delivery aligns with the One Pharma Strategy, CMG Priorities, and other relevant enterprise long-term goals.

• Design and manage a system of business sensing and opportunity identification skillsets, tools, mindsets, and practices across broad areas of the external environment (industry and markets) and internal environment (e.g. product pipeline, business performance, portfolio forecasting, CMG operating model) by proactively analyzing trends, uncovering unmet needs, and making connections across diverse data sources to proactively identify strategic growth areas and business risks.

• Accountable for defining the strategic direction and vision for overall SAI services as applied to CMG priorities and evolving business requirements; collaborate with stakeholder group leaders (up to and including SVP) to define and set expectations around the level of service provided as aligned to Roche Pharma- and CMG-wide priorities.

• Actively influence decision making across the enterprise by delivering actionable insights, both directly and through managed teams; insights include strategic options and recommendations, and answers to complex business questions.

• Accountable for delivering a Measurement practice for CMG to deliver consistent practices and approaches for gauging business impact, returns on investment and other financial measures on key CMG investment areas (e.g. DTC campaigns, Integrated Customer Experience, Access and Contracting, etc.), CMG functional operations in GBO, PAA, and elsewhere, and governance and rigor for coordinated cross-functional pilots and business experiments across CMG.

• Accountable for delivering US portfolio revenue insights; objective point-of-view on market- and product-specific industry trends, US portfolio sales performance and sales outlook, product demand outlook, and Genentech P&L commitments to the Roche Group.

• Partner with SAI and XO product teams, providing timely feedback to refine business product features, ensuring alignment with evolving stakeholder needs and analytics outputs.

• Proactively pursue cross-organizational (GNE/Roche) opportunities where insights services can increase patient-centricity, speed, simplicity and/or other effectiveness outcomes.

• Invest, build, sustain, modify, and exit analytics and insights capabilities and resources that drive the greatest impact for patients & customers by balancing cost, risk, and benefits/return of investments.

• Contribute to continuous organizational improvement by leading change efforts, both proactively within their group and in conjunction with other CMG/Genentech groups, and by sharing best practices, identifying opportunities for automation, and enhancing the efficiency and impact of analytic workflows.

• Proactively identify and address dynamic resourcing needs while flowing talent and other resources to the highest business needs.

• Lead and mentor a team of insights and analytics employees, fostering professional growth, enhancing both consultative skills, subject matter expertise (e.g. health care policy, health equity), and technical skills such as data literacy and data analytics.

• Adheres to compliance standards and maintains Genentech/Roche's license to operate & comply with all laws, regulations and policies that govern the conduct of Genentech activities.

People

• Lead and mentor a team of analysts, fostering professional development, promoting data literacy, and building analytics capabilities across functional teams.

• Build highly-connected, highly-motivated and high-performing teams by leading, developing and inspiring a thriving analyst team and fostering belonging within and across teams.

• Actively build and cultivate future leaders within analytics.

• Lead or oversee hiring of direct and indirect reports.

• Comply with all laws, regulations and policies that govern the conduct of Genentech activities.

• This position is based in South San Francisco, CA and relocation benefits are available

Minimum Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree (preferably in general business administration, finance, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, or health science discipline).

• 14+ years of work experience in strategy, planning, and/or operations management including 10+ years in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or related industries (could include related consulting experience).

• 8+ years of people management experience.

• Experience leading organization change efforts and change management.

• Robust communication, presentation, and organization skills.

• Large team leadership and people management skills.

• Deep expertise in business insights generation.

• Ability to create and execute long-term business and capability plans (including the development and implementation of strategies, goals and performance indicators).

• Negotiation ability and strong interpersonal skills, including the evaluation of value adds and creation of mutually beneficial terms for various parties.

• Financial acumen and the skillset to manage budgets and tactical plans.

Additional Desired Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• MBA or other related graduate level degree.

• Data analytics or data science experience in relevant industries.

• Experience in managed care, patient access, marketing and/or customer engagement/sales.

• Patient and organized customer business experience.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $227,500 - $422,500 USD Annual. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

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