Portfolio Leader

Genentech; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Genentech, located in South San Francisco, seeks a Portfolio Leader to drive Strategy, Management and Analytics for the Pharma portfolio. You will partner across Roche’s enterprise, shaping analytical tools, models and data-driven insights to inform capital allocation decisions.

You will collaborate with finance, data science, and informatics teams to translate complex models into actionable portfolio delivery and leadership-ready briefings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field; Advanced degree (MS, PhD, MBA) preferred.
• Strong understanding of disease/drug development to translate insights into actions.
• Experience translating models into actionable portfolio delivery in pharma/biotech.

Responsibilities

• Provide Portfolio Strategy, Portfolio Management and Analytics to partners across Pharma and Roche.
• Develop analytical tools, financial models, and data-driven insights to shape the portfolio.
• Lead strategic investment analysis and communicate portfolio dynamics to executives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure portfolio decisions align with strategy.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial modeling

Python

R

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree

MS or MBA preferred

Tools

Python

R

Tableau

Job description

The Position

At Roche/Genentech, we have a bold Pharma Ambition to deliver 20 transformative medicines addressing diseases with the highest societal burden by 2030. With this vision top of mind, our purpose is to co-create and deliver the target portfolio for the benefit of patients.

We want you to join our vision and be part of our passionate, collaborative, global Portfolio Strategy & Management (PSM) community!We are a strong, close, trusting community that lives new ways of working and operates from a creative mentality. We are THE place for talent to grow and contribute; our talent feels valued, connected, and a sense of belonging to something impactful. We have high impact; customers draw on our expertise to help them deliver the target portfolio more effectively/efficiently. We stop lower-value work. We’re BOLD. We try things, openly discuss and learn from mistakes and failure, experiment and iterate to achieve our aspirations.

The Opportunity:

As Portfolio Leader you will focus on providing Portfolio Strategy, Portfolio Management and Portfolio Insights & Analytics to partners across Pharma and the Roche enterprise. You will be expected to closely collaborate with colleagues in relevant groups beyond PSM in co-creating deliverables. You will also be involved in the development and application of analytical tools, financial models, and data-driven insights to shape the Pharma portfolio.

Key accountabilities for team members include, but are not limited to, a combination of the following areas:

• Strategic investment analysis - Provide analytical expertise to evaluate strategic options, leveraging financial modeling (rNPV, scenario analysis, trade-off optimization) to quantify risk, asset value, and competitive positioning that guide capital allocation decisions.
• Strategy support - Partner with Pharma Leaders to co-create and deliver robust portfolio and business strategies that provide the scaffolding for Pharma portfolio decisions
• Portfolio assessments and presentations - Manage and communicate portfolio dynamics (risk, value, mix, competitive positioning etc.) to inform portfolio decisions and strategy updates. Develop portfolio content and actionable insights presented to Executive Leadership.
• Decision support and valuation - Active thought partner to teams and decision-makers including, defining/scoping of tactics to deliver on defined business strategies
• Decision management and ecosystem architecture - Ensure decision quality by architecting the path to a decision, the decision making model, and portfolio prioritization. Design/evolve advice seeking and fit-for-purpose engagement opportunities, and develop/evolve resources and guidance to support decision making and portfolio management.
• Insights & analytics - Design, develop and improve portfolio metrics, analytics, and dynamic visualizations that enable operational efficiency and optimal decision-making and targeted communications. In addition, provide and update guidance on valuation and risk methodologies used by teams and decision-makers. Key deliverables include quarterly Pharma Portfolio Reports, annual R&D performance benchmarking, business planning and ad hoc requests.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics, Finance, Data Science, Engineering, or a similar quantitative discipline; Advanced degree (MS, PhD, MBA) highly preferred
• Strong understanding of disease/drug development to translate competitive/industry insights into actions.
• You have strong experience using a combination of quantitative rigor and collaborative partnership across matrixed technical teams (including Finance, Data Science, and Informatics) to ensure strategic models are translated into actionable portfolio delivery.
• You apply financial modeling and decision analysis to guide portfolio management decisions in the pharma/biotech or similar industry
• You have proven experience with tools like Python, R, and Tableau to you automate analytical workflows and generate predictive portfolio insights

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a dedicated and passionate individual, driven by our shared purpose of co-creating and delivering the portfolio for the benefit of patients.
• You thrive in environments of ambiguity and collaboration where authority and accountability is distributed between all of the people involved and where advice seeking is foundational.
• You are an effective communicator who shares information transparently and strategically. You are comfortable with working out loud and the principles of iteration and experimentation, and are an active listener.
• You are a strategic thinker who connects traditional biopharma strategy with the latest technology-enabled quantitative analytics.
• You are an effective communicator capable of synthesizing complex probabilistic models into clear narratives that guide portfolio decision-makers and leadership.

Relocation benefits are not available for this posting

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $149,300 - $277,300. 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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