Portfolio Analytics Leader

Roche; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company in the UK is seeking a Portfolio Analytics Leader to manage a team of analysts and provide strategic insights. The role demands expertise in data analytics and product management. Applicants should have a relevant bachelor's degree and experience in the pharmaceutical industry. This position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry is preferred.
• Deep expertise in data analytics and statistics.
• Experience with scripting and analytical tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of analysts and manage team growth.
• Provide strategic operational insights.
• Oversee advanced analytics methods for study performance.

Skills

Forecasting

Data Analysis

Advanced Data Analytics

Product Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or Physical Sciences

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

At Roche/Genentech Pharma Product Development Global Clinical Operations (PDG), we are determined to transform drug development and realize our Pharma Ambition to deliver 20 transformative medicines addressing diseases with the highest societal burden by 2029. In PDG, we aspire to be leaders in clinical operations, emphasizing the importance of speed and cost‑effectiveness, while instilling an enterprise‑wide perspective in all our work so that we continue to deliver for Patients and Roche.

Portfolio Analytics Leader

• Lead a team of analysts, functioning as a strategic thought partner to key stakeholders and a driving force behind Roche/Genentech's operational planning efforts. This leader will inspire, develop, and manage a team to deliver high‑quality analytics, ensuring the optimal performance of our portfolio.
• As a people leader, the Portfolio Analytics Team Leader will build upon the foundations of the analyst role and take ownership of the team's growth, coordination, and strategic initiatives. This requires a blend of forecasting, data analysis, advanced data analytics, and product management capabilities to guide team members in their professional development and contributions to impactful projects.
• Provide strategic operational insights with minimal guidance/supervision, leveraging expertise in:
• Forecasting: creating time‑series and/or patient‑based forecasts; conducting uncertainty analyses.
• Data Analysis: identifying trends and patterns in the data; descriptive statistics; qualitative and quantitative insights generation.
• Advanced Data Analytics: designing and delivering advanced quantitative data analyses leveraging large/complex datasets.
• Product Management: end‑to‑end delivery of analytical solutions from ideation through implementation, providing strategic partnership to communities across Clinical Operations.

The Opportunity

• Strategic Leadership: Partner with Area/Country Leaders and analysts, therapeutic area strategic engagement partners, franchise leads, study management & country leaders, late stage portfolio committee stakeholders, and lifecycle teams to understand business needs, priorities, and strategic scope of work.
• Set the vision and strategy for integrated insights and analytics, trade‑off analyses, and risk assessment to optimize patient recruitment strategies, country footprint, and clinical site selection for ongoing and planned clinical trials.

Team Development

• Mentor and develop team members in forecasting, uncertainty analyses, and trend identification.
• Promote a collaborative environment where individual contributors blend and extend their expertise on various initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging team members to seek ongoing personal and professional development.

Operational Management

• Oversee the sophisticated application of advanced analytics methods, including predictive modeling, machine learning, and scalable prototypes, to measure study performance and guide portfolio‑level decisions.
• Ensure the creation and management of tools with up‑to‑date industry information to build accurate short‑and long‑term forecasts.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Communicate the effects that trial design elements, country and site selection, competitor activities, and new engagement tactics will have on clinical trial recruitment & retention forecasts.
• Act as a thought partner and advisor to all relevant teams and stakeholders, looking for opportunities for peer mentorship.

Advanced Methodologies

• Lead the application of analytical and statistical methods to answer a variety of business questions using multiple data sources and technical tools/languages.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate within cross‑functional teams to develop solutions, gain alignment, and deliver impactful business insights.
• Engage necessary stakeholders to enable better decision‑making.

Enterprise Alignment

• Take an enterprise and One PDG mindset, linking individual team responsibilities with broader organizational goals; focus on outcomes that provide the most business value.
• Demonstrate self‑accountability and integrity.
• Monitor and assess the effectiveness of enrollment and engagement efforts, projects, and practices, identifying opportunities to optimize value of investments.

Qualifications

• You have previous work experience preferably within pharmaceutical or biotech industry (commercial or clinical) and/or management consulting, with a bachelor’s degree (Business, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Physical Sciences or related field).
• You have deep expertise in at least one of the following areas: patient insights, investigator insights, forecasting, competitive intelligence, data analytics, statistics, advanced data analytics, resourcing, information visualization, and/or data science.
• You have demonstrated experience translating data into insights and creating compelling narratives.
• You have experience applying exploratory and confirmatory data analysis techniques that inform business decisions.
• You have experience with scripting, statistical & programming languages and analytical tools preferred (e.g., Python, R, SQL, Matlab, SAS, Google/Adobe analytics).
• You have autonomous or semi‑autonomous examination of data or content.
• You have demonstrated use of sophisticated techniques, tools & languages typically beyond those of traditional data analysis to discover deeper insights, make predictions, or generate recommendations.
• You have experience acting as a strategic thought partner to teams and possess an entrepreneurial mindset to transform the way we use data and analytics.
• You have a track record of effectively working in a matrix environment with international team members coming from scientific, business and operational backgrounds, using influence without authority.
• You have expertise in standard analysis and presentation software (Excel, PowerPoint) and the ability to merge together data sets from disparate sources and report findings in a variety of formats and mediums.

Company Commitment

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.