Strategic Enterprise Initiatives Lead (Remote)

Genentech, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 147,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Genentech, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Initiatives Manager to translate CE priorities into executable initiatives with clear ownership, milestones, and governance.

You will orchestrate cross-functional delivery, manage risks, and ensure alignment with the CE portfolio while partnering with field sponsors to maintain strategic focus. The role requires leading complex programs across regions, guiding initiative teams, and delivering measurable outcomes while maintaining transparency with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8-10 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consulting, commercial, program management, transformation, and/or operations experience including leading, coaching or mentoring others strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives from definition through implementation.
• Experience partnering with senior sponsors and translating strategy into executable plans.
• Strong project/program management, facilitation, and stakeholder leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a complex matrixed organization.
• Strong communication, executive presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel as required for internal and external business meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of selected CE enterprise initiatives from definition through implementation and outcome review.
• Translate approved priorities into clear workplans with owners, milestones, dependencies, measures, and decision points.
• Maintain disciplined execution against agreed scope, timing, and outcomes.
• Coordinate implementation across Regions, teams, and enterprise functions when work spans organizational boundaries.
• Ensure initiatives transition effectively from planning into sustained business ownership when appropriate.
• Serve as the operational partner to HEDs, Regional leaders, and other field partners who sponsor enterprise work.
• Help sponsors clarify the business problem, desired outcome, scope, stakeholders, and decisions required.
• Carry the operational coordination burden so sponsors can focus on strategic direction and business leadership.
• Create transparent sponsor updates that highlight progress, risks, decisions, and support needed.
• Ensure field-sponsored work remains connected to broader CE priorities and does not become isolated or duplicative.
• Mobilize the right partners across CE, Regions, RBO, DDA, L&SD, CPO, Field Medical, GPAA, and other functions as needed.
• Clarify roles, handoffs, dependencies, and shared commitments across initiative teams.
• Facilitate working sessions and decisions that move complex enterprise work forward.
• Identify and resolve execution barriers at the appropriate level, escalating when needed.
• Promote common execution standards while adapting the operating approach to the needs of each initiative.
• Define practical measures of progress, adoption, impact, and intended business outcomes for enterprise initiatives.
• Maintain clear visibility to risks, dependencies, decisions, and unresolved issues.
• Escalate material risks and tradeoffs early with clear recommendations for action.
• Lead outcome reviews and capture lessons that can improve future enterprise work.
• Ensure decisions and follow-up actions are documented, owned, and completed.
• Lead, coach, and develop Enterprise Operations Leads assigned to enterprise initiatives.
• Set clear expectations for planning, stakeholder management, communication, risk management, and execution quality.
• Allocate team capacity across initiatives based on business priority, complexity, and timing.
• Build reusable initiative management tools, templates, and ways of working.
• Contribute to common Enterprise Operations standards, talent practices, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder leadership

Facilitation

Communication

Travel ability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Genentech, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Initiatives Manager to translate CE priorities into executable initiatives with clear ownership, milestones, and governance.

You will orchestrate cross-functional delivery, manage risks, and ensure alignment with the CE portfolio while partnering with field sponsors to maintain strategic focus. The role requires leading complex programs across regions, guiding initiative teams, and delivering measurable outcomes while maintaining transparency with