R&D Business Insight and Digital Solution Lead

Roche; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Genentech, a Roche subsidiary in South San Francisco, is seeking an R&D Business Insight and Digital Solution Lead to steer cross-functional teams in delivering high-impact, data-driven products for RDT. You will shape roadmaps, blend business and technical strategy, and mentor colleagues to foster a safe, innovative environment.

You will leverage pharmaceutical informatics and advanced analytics, including AI and multimodal data platforms, to translate complex R&D needs into actionable IT

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, IT or Business; Master’s preferred.
• 8+ years of direct related experience, including 3+ years in life sciences/pharma.
• Proven track record leading extremely complex projects with enterprise-wide implications.

Responsibilities

• Scope/Content Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact products and shape strategy.
• Drive End-to-End Digital Execution: Manage multi-squad software and data delivery from concept to operation.
• Industry & Trend Foresight: Leverage pharmaceutical informatics and analytics trends for strategic fit.
• Accountability/Problem Solving: Drive outcomes, set priorities, and ensure psychological safety.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with senior leaders, communicate trade-offs and risks.

Skills

Consultancy capabilities

Agile frameworks

Product roadmaps

Enterprise architecture

AI technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Science/IT/Business

Master's degree preferred

Job description

R&D Business Insight and Digital Solution Lead

The Opportunity

As an R&D Business Insight and Digital Solution Lead, you are a technology consultant serving as a strategic thought leader and go-to expert for RDT. You will lead cross-functional teams on high-impact, complex products, anticipating changing business conditions and recommending strategic directions with enterprise-wide implications. Operating at the intersection of life science, enterprise architecture, and advanced analytics, you will bridge the gap between complex R&D strategies and cutting-edge IT/digital execution. You will shape product roadmaps, influence domain strategy using extensive industry knowledge, and masterfully mentor colleagues to foster a highly collaborative, safe, and innovative team environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Scope/Content Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in a matrix organization, including peers from outside of your own function, to deliver high-impact and/or complex products. Shape and influence strategy by translating complex business needs into clear product strategy, capabilities, and priorities. Comfortable moving between strategic direction and hands‑on delivery while maintaining focus on business outcomes.
• Drive End-to-End Digital Execution: Lead complex, multi-squad software, and data delivery programs from concept to operationalization, maintaining a balanced focus between strategic architecture and hands‑on delivery.
• Industry & Trend Foresight: Leverage deep pharmaceutical informatics and technology trends to anticipate evolving scientific needs, evaluating emerging capabilities, including enterprise AI, Agentic workflows, generative ML, and multimodal data platforms— for strategic fit and enterprise scalability.
• Accountability/Problem Solving: Decide on important topics with a significant impact on the goals and objectives of the organization. Take accountability of driving business outcomes in close partnership with stakeholders. Create clarity and accountability around roles, priorities, decision making and expected outcomes and address bottlenecks holding the team back. Foster psychological safety so people can disagree, surface risks, and question assumptions. Shape and lead the right mix of blended teams of employees, vendors/consultants and experts who may not report directly to them.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with senior stakeholders and executives, managing expectations and sponsorship. Build alignment across business, data and technology teams without relying on formal authority. Communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior business leaders and clearly articulate recommendations and trade-offs. Comfortable giving high visibility presentations, clearly articulating recommendations, trade-offs and risks and influencing decision making.
• Impact/Strategy: Act as a go‑to person for Leadership in RDT, determining the best course of action in new/innovative capabilities. Provide consistent leadership and significant impact on complex and/or high‑impact programs. Influence strategy at the domain level by using extensive industry knowledge to shape product roadmaps and workforce strategies toward strategic trends. Master coaching and mentoring to develop others’ expertise and create a safe environment that empowers participants and enables great teamwork.
• Complexity/ (Product Size): Lead extremely complex projects with enterprise‑wide implications. Anticipate changing conditions and business needs and recommend strategic directions to management to mitigate them. Able to create structure and drive decisions in a complex dynamic environment with fragmented systems, distributed ownership, evolving requirements, and competing priorities.
• Business/Technical ability: Receive positive feedback, maintain a strong reputation, and is recognized by organizational leaders internally and externally due to impact, expertise, and collaboration capability. Possess a proficient level of business process domain knowledge in multiple domains and has strong technical fluency to effectively lead and challenge architects, engineers, and data scientists. Understand modern data platforms, APIs, analytics, and AI technologies and can evaluate solutions for scalability, maintainability, and strategic fit. Experience integrating models and agenticAI capabilities into business workflows is a strong plus.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, IT or Business. Master’s degree is preferred.
• 8+ years of direct related experience, including 3+ years in life sciences/pharma or the assigned business function being supported.
• Proven track record of leading extremely complex projects with enterprise‑wide implications and anticipating changing business conditions.

Technical Skills

• Deep expertise in multiple Consultancy capabilities and a proficient level of business process domain knowledge across multiple domains.
• Strong ability to scale Agile frameworks to align priorities across multiple squads or product teams.
• Advanced capability in shaping product roadmaps and workforce strategies based on extensive industry knowledge and strategic trends.

Additional Qualifications

• Exceptional executive stakeholder management skills, with the charisma to captivate audiences and master strategic messaging.
• Ability to navigate in ambiguous situations, be dynamic and ready to pivot to move the program forward.
• Mastery in coaching and mentoring colleagues to solve problems and develop their skills within a safe and collaborative environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Management consultancy experience is highly preferred.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $143,400 - $266,200. 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

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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