Field Analytics And Insights Director

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. The team 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.

This 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.

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 diverse, inclusive team that reflects the world we serve, thriving in a welcoming culture built on collaboration and innovation. 

Job Summary

The Field Analytics & Insights Director is responsible for delivering impactful, data-driven insights that guide key business decisions within a field leadership team (Customer Engagement, Ecosystem, Field Medical, National Access Decision, National Supply & Care Delivery) across the Genentech portfolio. In this role, the Director collaborates closely with Customer Engagement and Field Medical Leadership to uncover critical business needs and align analytical workstreams with strategic priorities. The Director leverages deep analytical, technical, and business and field domain expertise to provide clear, actionable recommendations that drive patient and organizational value. This position focuses on embedding analytics products into workflows and guiding cross-functional teams to enhance analytical capabilities and support strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise stakeholders including Customer Engagement and Field Medical Leadership Teams (HEDs, MEDs and the CE Network), to define clear, impactful business priorities and develop action plans. Develop strategic options and recommendations by synthesizing findings, connecting insights across therapeutic areas, ecosystems, or analytic domains, and aligning them with organizational goals.

• Demonstrate mastery in tailoring communication to specific audiences, communicating and influencing senior leaders and simplifying details for stakeholder buy-in.

• Translate strategic vision into actionable insights by leveraging a strong analytical background and deep subject matter expertise in healthcare (e.g. payers, providers, healthcare markets, and/or therapeutic areas) to ensure successful execution of initiatives across teams and functions.

• Sense business needs through stakeholder interactions, drive towards outcomes through high degrees of uncertainty, and lead cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives.

• Catalyze and entrench new solutions and ways of working into the business.

• Demonstrate mastery of analytical capability, and pro-actively help teammates build proficiency/mastery of that capability.

• Demonstrate leadership through pro-active, informal coaching and mentorship of analysts across the team.

• Autonomously operates and manages all levels of stakeholders (with extremely limited/no manager guidance).

• Accountable for pro-actively providing expertise, strategic planning support and execution against evolution of a capability.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand business needs, key questions, and priorities, and ensure alignment with project objectives and analytic lead direction.

• Perform custom analyses by applying appropriate analytic techniques to address business challenges. 

• Take an enterprise mindset, linking individual responsibilities with broader organization; focus on outcomes that provide most business and patient value. 

• Contribute to continuous organizational improvement by sharing best practices, identifying opportunities for automation, and enhancing the efficiency and impact of analytic workflows.

• Play an active role in the adoption of analytical products by staying up to date on the product roadmap, participating in training, user testing (as needed), and providing constructive feedback to ensure products are integrated into workflows. Embed and integrate products into workflows and foster Digital, Data, and Analytic’s product-first culture.

• Effectively interact with and guide offshore teams to ensure alignment with project objectives and maintain high-quality deliverables.

• Contribute to and lead FAI/Data, Analytics & AI department and function-wide initiatives. 

• Work flexibly within a modular team structure to quickly adapt to evolving priorities and deliver impactful insights across a range of business domains, including Payer, Provider, Patient, and/or Market Geography/Expertise. 

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

Who You Are

Minimum Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree. 

• 8 years of work experience in management consulting, strategy or other analytical work.

• Growth Mindset.

• Experience synthesizing concise summaries focused on the key insights that inform business decisions. 

• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty in a highly-matrixed organization.

• Strong results orientation and adaptability in a fast-faced environment.

• Persuasive written and verbal communication skills.

• Business travel may be required.

Additional Desired Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computer or Physical Sciences or related field.

• MBA or Graduate-level Degree.

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

• Exposure to pharmaceutical product development and/or commercialization.

• Mastery in exploring large amounts of data, identifying important insights and building compelling narratives.

• Proficiency in understanding market landscape and surfacing insights across multiple primary data sources.

• Expertise with ecosystem marketplace / healthcare customer subject matter expertise and the core capabilities of analytics, insights, and strategic advisory across a broad range of go-to-market and access topics.

• Proficient with data analytics tools (excel, python, SQL, Dataiku, etc.)

• Proven track record of pro-active leadership, time-management, project management, and teamwork.

Location

• This position is based in South San Francisco, CA, however a remote work option will be considered for US candidates who currently live in the following states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.

• Relocation Assistance is not available

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $172,600 - 320,600 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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