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 Data, Digital, and Analytics (DDA) team is dedicated to solving complex healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes. The DDA team empowers business partners across Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) to make impactful decisions by leveraging data, analytics, business products, and AI/ML to enable fast, targeted actions in rapidly evolving business contexts.
DDA 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.
In DDA, you will work as a trusted, objective advisor and expert, recommending critical decisions and actions to be taken with credibility and a focus on driving measurable impact. You will be part of a thriving culture built on collaboration and innovation.
Job Summary
The Therapeutic Area Analytics & Insights Director - MASH Program Lead - CVRM in Data, Digital, and Analytics (DDA) is a strategic advisor and leader responsible for driving comprehensive insights and analytics strategies across the CVRM commercial portfolio and launch brands. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs, conducting targeted analyses to uncover tailored insights, and synthesizing findings into strategic options aligned with organizational goals. This work will guide decisions that affect in-line, pipeline, and business development assets. This individual is responsible for providing strategic recommendations with minimal guidance or supervision, leveraging their capabilities.
This role champions evidence-based decision-making for launch brands, ensuring rigorous modeling, forecasting, and impactful primary and secondary insights that directly shape portfolio strategy, positioning and go-to-market execution. This role bridges complex analytics with commercial strategy, partnering closely with data engineering and technical colleagues to direct advanced modeling, structure complex analyses, and leverage healthcare claims data. By embedding analytics products into workflows and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, this role plays a pivotal part in enhancing analytical capabilities and supporting the strategic direction of the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise stakeholders to define clear, impactful business priorities within the CVRM portfolio, and develop comprehensive action plans. Develop strategic options and recommendations by synthesizing findings, connecting insights across therapeutic areas or analytic domains, and aligning them with organizational goals.
- Lead end-to-end insights and analytics strategy for key launch brands, ensuring rigorous pre-launch and post-launch readiness, robust journey mapping, and clear performance tracking.
- Partner and consult directly with technical colleagues and data engineering teams to direct data analysis, shape patient-finding algorithms, and translate complex quantitative findings into intuitive business narratives for senior leadership.
- Leverage extensive experience with secondary healthcare data sources, specifically open and closed claims data, to structure robust analyses and answer critical business questions.
- Perform custom analyses and direct multi-capability workstreams spanning market research, competitive intelligence, and forecasting.
- Demonstrate mastery in tailoring communication to specific audiences, effectively communicating and influencing senior leaders to secure strategic buy-in.
- Sense business needs through stakeholder interactions, drive towards outcomes through high degrees of uncertainty, and lead cross-functional teams across commercial, medical, and access functions.
- Manage, coach, and develop junior team members providing oversight, mentorship, and professional growth opportunities.
- Take an enterprise mindset, linking individual responsibilities with the broader organization and focusing on outcomes that maximize business and patient value.
- Contribute to continuous organizational improvement by sharing best practices, identifying opportunities for automation, and enhancing analytical workflows.
- Play an active role in the adoption of analytical products, participating in roadmap discussions, user testing, and providing constructive feedback to ensure seamless integration into business workflows.
- Quickly adapt to evolving priorities by working flexibly across core capabilities:
- Data Analytics: Apply an analytical mindset to guide data modeling, analyze longitudinal and claims datasets, and solve complex business challenges.
- Market Research: Design, conduct, and guide qualitative and quantitative primary market research with patients, caregivers, HCPs, and ecosystem stakeholders to inform brand strategy and customer experience.
- Forecasting: Build, manage, and advise on revenue, patient-flow, and market uptake forecasts, incorporating uncertainty analyses and statistical rigor to guide strategic planning.
- Competitive Intelligence: Monitor and track the competitive landscape, evaluate competitive threats, and synthesize intelligence from major medical conferences to shape brand positioning and strategy.
- Comply with all laws, regulations, and policies that govern the conduct of Genentech activities.
Who You Are
Minimum Candidate Qualifications & Experience
- 8+ years of relevant work experience (or equivalent with advanced education)
- Bachelor's Degree
- Strong generalist profile with demonstrated multi-disciplinary capabilities across market research, forecasting, competitive intelligence, and data analytics.
- Direct, hands-on experience working in the pharmaceutical industry supporting commercial launch brands.
- Proven expertise in structuring business problems and developing robust financial, patient-flow, and decision models.
- Growth mindset, strong results orientation, and adaptability in a fast-paced, highly matrixed organization.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of translating technical data into compelling strategic narratives for executive leadership.
Additional Desired Candidate Qualifications & Experience
- Direct experience working within commercial pharma or consumer-driven healthcare markets, with deep familiarity with secondary data sources (syndicated sales, longitudinal patient-level data, open/closed claims, and consumer datasets).
- Experience shaping go-to-market strategies, launch planning, or lifecycle management across therapeutic areas such as Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolic, or related portfolios.
- Strong entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity, solve unstructured problems, and drive rapid prototyping and deployment of analytical solutions.
Location
This position is based in South San Francisco, CA and relocation benefits are not available.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco is $172,600 - $320,600. 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
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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