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.
Our Global Pharma Strategy (GPS) team is the heartbeat of Pharma, setting the rhythm for Pharma — shaping Roche’s strategic direction, ensuring our portfolio delivers meaningful innovation to patients worldwide. By integrating scientific, commercial, and market insights, GPS drives enterprise-wide strategy, portfolio prioritization, and business model innovation to advance Roche’s leadership in the evolving healthcare landscape.
The Opportunity
As part of the Portfolio, Strategy, and Insights (PSI) team within GPS, the Global Ecosystem Insights Enabling Lead will serve as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor in guiding Roche’s product, disease area, pharma, and corporate strategy. PSI delivers consistent, targeted, and technology-enabled insights that drive quality decision-making across the enterprise. PSI is composed of Advanced Analytics for Business Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Ecosystem Insights, Partnering Commercial Assessment Leads, and Pharma Portfolio & Strategy. These teams work together to provide unbiased, expertly curated intelligence to drive lifecycle management, commercialization excellence, and portfolio strategies.
This is a Senior Director role.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Thought Leadership: Provide thought partnership to senior leaders in GPS, Product Development and Research and Development to influence the development and execution of global commercial strategies across the value chain, from development through to commercialisation. Drive and influence therapeutic area (TA) business decisions and trade-offs by integrating and analyzing complex market dynamics, customer needs and competitive landscapes at the portfolio level, elevating insights across disease areas and brand strategies to optimize the portfolio and enhance patient outcomes. As a standing member of the Business Board, brings objectivity, consistency in methodology, deep market and customer understanding, and functional expertise to R&D investment decisions, accelerating the path to value.
Build and Lead High Performance Teams: Lead and mentor a team of insights professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous development, recognition and growth mindset. Drive feedback, coaching and performance management practices. Attract and retain high quality talent. Champion the overall EI team vision and ensure the team are executing against their roles and responsibilities in service of achieving the vision and the overall Roche Pharma strategy. Develop systems and checks to ensure the team is consistently performing to the highest standard. Manage resource
allocation within TA and partner as one team to ensure highest alignment with prioritization across the entire portfolio.
Drive Cutting Edge and Customer-Centric Capabilities: Accelerate and catalyze the embedding of the voice of the customer (patients, healthcare professionals, and other key stakeholders) in TA, disease area and commercialisation strategies. Drive a customer-first mindset across the organization by ensuring that insights shape the development and optimization of Roche’s portfolio. Coach and mentor teams to utilize cutting edge tech, gen AI, forecasting techniques, analytics and data sources (including but not limited to primary and secondary research, CRM data, real world evidence) to understand and predict market evolution, customer attitudes, needs, behaviors and perceptions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influence: Collaborate with other cross functional teams, such as R&D, product development, medical affairs and with critical must win markets, to set the insights foundations and capabilities for the development of integrated strategies and solutions that deliver value for patients and the healthcare ecosystem.
Who You Are
Required Skills and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree; however, Masters or PhD degrees are preferred
15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry with increasing responsibility and proven track record in commercial insights and strategy roles
Outstanding VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst and Coach) leadership skills: proven track record in building high performing teams and ability to influence in a collaborative way within a cross functional environment
Demonstrated history in leading and managing change on a large scale
Excellent strategic thinker with a passion for customer insights, market dynamics, problem solving and innovation
Strong analytical and storytelling skills with the ability to translate complex market and customer data into clear and actionable insights that influence business decisions at the portfolio and disease area levels. Expertise in developing forward-looking strategies that anticipate market trends, customer needs and competitive dynamics
Solid experience in diverse insights generation methodologies in primary market research, CRM analytics, secondary data, real world evidence, forecasting and strategic decision support
Experience in using advanced analytics tools (e.g., AI, machine learning, predictive modeling) to generate actionable insights that drive impact
Extensive experience in supporting the development and implementation of commercialization strategies and product life-cycle planning and management
Strong communication, listening, presentation and interpersonal skills
Proven abilities to lead, collaborate and deliver in a complex and matrix environment, across across multiple priorities and stakeholders, forming strong partnerships
Excellent judgment with a demonstrated ability to diagnose issues, manage conflict and provide alternative solutions
Demonstrated experience and excellence in people management, coaching and mentoring
Fluent written and verbal English
Location
This position is based in South San Francisco and relocation benefits are available for US candidates.
This role can also be based in Basel Switzerland and relocation is available.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $221,300 - $410,900 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.
Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.
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