Executive Director of Portfolio Insights & Analytics

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.

Who We Are

Our Analytics & Insights team is dedicated to solving complex healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes. This 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.

The team 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.

The Opportunity

Genentech is seeking a highly experienced and visionary leader to serve as the Executive Director of Portfolio Insights & Analytics. Reporting into the Vice President of Insights & Analytics, this critical role will be responsible for defining and executing the insights, analytics, and measurement strategy that enables strategic planning and execution across key strategic pillars including, Market Access, Patient Engagement, Population Health, and Medical. The successful candidate will lead a high-performing team of subject matter experts, setting the vision for how we use data, advanced analytics, and technology to generate impactful, measurable, and action-oriented insights in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy and cutting-edge analytical methods, shaping Genentech's ability to ensure broad and equitable patient access to our innovative medicines.

Accountabilities 

• Strategic Insight Leadership: Architect the overarching vision and roadmap for portfolio data analytics and market research, ensuring that strategic decisions are rooted in rigorous, evidence-based insights.

• Portfolio Decision Support: Lead high-impact insights and analytics programs that inform portfolio-level decisions, providing the evidence base for strategic decision making. Lead Patient, Access, Population Health, and Medical data and insights capabilities. In collaboration with Finance and the product Squads, provides strategic decision support for short and long-range revenue and opex planning.

• Predictive Intelligence: Direct the development of sophisticated predictive tools and advanced analytical models to anticipate healthcare shifts, allowing Genentech to proactively shape strategies for evolving payer and provider landscapes.

• Enterprise Digital Transformation: Act as a leader in Genentech’s technology evolution, championing the integration of AI and advanced data science to modernize commercialization and drive market-leading competitive advantages.

• Strategic Executive Partnership: Act as a principal advisor to the Vice President and other senior leaders, synthesizing complex data ecosystems into clear, high-stakes business recommendations that influence the enterprise's strategic direction.

• Impact & Value Measurement: Establish and oversee comprehensive measurement frameworks to quantify the real-world effectiveness and ROI of patient access strategies, medical initiatives, and policy engagements.

• Cross-Functional Synthesis: Drive a unified organizational view of the patient and provider journey by orchestrating the integration of disparate data streams across the customer engagement journey, including patient-level claims, EHR, and qualitative market research.

• Organizational Talent Architecture: Build and mentor an elite team of subject matter experts, cultivating a culture of intellectual curiosity, analytical rigor, and collaborative influence that elevates the entire Insights & Analytics function.

Required Experience & Expertise

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, engineering, or scientific discipline (Economics, Business Management, Data Science, Chemistry, etc) is required. Advanced degree preferred (MBA, MS, PHD, etc)

• 15+ years of progressive leadership within the pharmaceutical or biotech sectors, including at least 5 years of proven success managing high-impact, multi-disciplinary teams in analytics, business intelligence, or market research.

• 10+ years of deep immersion in the healthcare ecosystem, specifically within Market Access, Patient Strategy, Healthcare Policy, and/or Portfolio Strategy, with a proven ability to link these functions to broader commercial success.

• Deep understanding of pharmaceutical forecasting and measurement methodologies and demonstrated ability to strategically advise senior leadership on portfolio insights and opportunities. 

• Strong proficiency in leveraging complex, large-scale healthcare data—including Payer Claims (IQVIA, Symphony, Optum), EHR, Clinical Trial, and Specialty Pharmacy data—to derive predictive and prescriptive insights.

• A documented track record of architecting and implementing sophisticated analytical roadmaps that have directly influenced enterprise-level business strategy and delivered measurable financial or clinical outcomes.

• Fluency in the global data privacy landscape and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR), ensuring the highest standards of integrity in HCP and patient-level analytics and research.

• Mastery of a broad range of commercial and clinical topics, including drug pricing dynamics, reimbursement education, value-based care, and the evolving pressures of the hospital and account management environment.

• Exceptional capability to serve as a strategic peer to senior leadership, with the influence and communication skills necessary to translate complex technical findings into compelling, actionable narratives.

Location

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

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $236,900 - $439.900 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.

Benefits

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