Global Ecosystem Insights Enabling Lead - Oncology

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.

Our Global Pharma Strategy (GPS) team is the heartbeat of Pharma, setting the rhythm for Pharma — shaping Roche’s strategic direction, ensuring our portfolio delivers meaningful innovation to patients worldwide. By integrating scientific, commercial, and market insights, GPS drives enterprise-wide strategy, portfolio prioritization, and business model innovation to advance Roche’s leadership in the evolving healthcare landscape.

As part of the Portfolio, Strategy, and Insights (PSI) team within GPS, the Global Ecosystem Insights Enabling Lead will serve as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor in guiding Roche’s product, disease area, pharma, and corporate strategy. PSI delivers consistent, targeted, and technology-enabled insights that drive quality decision-making across the enterprise. PSI is composed of Advanced Analytics for Business Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Ecosystem Insights, Partnering Commercial Assessment Leads, and Pharma Portfolio & Strategy.

These teams work together to provide unbiased, expertly curated intelligence to drive lifecycle management, commercialization excellence, and portfolio strategies.

This is a Senior Director role.

• Strategic Thought Leadership :
  Provide thought partnership to senior leaders in GPS, Product Development and Research and Development to influence the development and execution of global commercial strategies across the value chain, from development through to commercialisation. Drive and influence therapeutic area (TA) business decisions and trade-offs by integrating and analyzing complex market dynamics, customer needs and competitive landscapes at the portfolio level, elevating insights across disease areas and brand strategies to optimize the portfolio and enhance patient outcomes.
  
  As a standing member of the Business Board, brings objectivity, consistency in methodology, deep market and customer understanding, and functional expertise to R&D investment decisions, accelerating the path to value.
• Build and Lead High Performance Teams :
  Lead and mentor a team of insights professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous development, recognition and growth mindset. Drive feedback, coaching and performance management practices. Attract and retain high quality talent. Champion the overall EI team vision and ensure the team are executing against their roles and responsibilities in service of achieving the vision and the overall Roche Pharma strategy.
  
  Develop systems and checks to ensure the team is consistently performing to the highest standard. Manage resource allocation within TA and partner as one team to ensure highest alignment with prioritization across the entire portfolio.
• Drive Cutting Edge and Customer-Centric Capabilities :
  Accelerate and catalyze the embedding of the voice of the customer (patients, healthcare professionals, and other key stakeholders) in TA, disease area and commercialisation strategies. Drive a customer‑first mindset across the organization by ensuring that insights shape the development and optimization of Roche’s portfolio. Coach and mentor teams to utilize cutting edge tech, gen AI, forecasting techniques, analytics and data sources (including but not limited to primary and secondary research, CRM data, real world evidence) to understand and predict market evolution, customer attitudes, needs, behaviors and perceptions.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration and Influence :
  Collaborate with other cross functional teams, such as R&D, product development, medical affairs and with critical must win markets, to set the insights foundations and capabilities for the development of integrated strategies and solutions that deliver value for patients and the healthcare ecosystem.

• Bachelor’s degree; however, Masters or PhD…