Senior Director, Business Operations & Portfolio Controls

The Position

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.

The Position

Genentech is establishing a strategically focused Workplace Delivery Team responsible for the end‑to‑end delivery of all workplace solutions for the South San Francisco campus and key satellite sites. Within this function, Business Operations and Portfolio Controls are critical enablers of disciplined execution, financial integrity, and operational excellence.

We are seeking a visionary, enterprise‑minded senior leader to lead Business Operations and Portfolio Controls within Workplace Delivery. This strategic and operational role is responsible for designing the business operations architecture and ensuring its effective implementation across a large, complex portfolio of workplace projects and programs.

The Opportunity

In this pivotal role, you will be accountable for enterprise‑level workplace delivery systems and tools, integration of data, processes, and digital capabilities to support decision‑making and strategic planning, and overall business operations excellence, ensuring standardized, scalable processes and governance.

Additionally, you’ll provide a robust, data-driven backbone for Workplace Delivery strategy and execution, act as a strategic integrator of systems, controls, and governance, and shape and continuously improve the enabling infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the business operations and portfolio controls strategy for Workplace Delivery, ensuring alignment with the overall workplace and campus vision.

• Build and lead integrated Business Operations and Portfolio Controls teams, bringing together subject matter experts in project controls, estimating, scheduling, capital governance, safety, and business process design.

• Define and maintain standardized business processes across Workplace Delivery (e.g., intake, prioritization, approval workflows, change control, risk management, financial approvals, and close‑out).

• Oversee the Portfolio Controls function that embeds industry best practices for estimating, scheduling, cost control, and risk management across the Workplace Delivery portfolio.

• Lead the digital enablement strategy for Workplace Delivery in coordination with Campus Development and IT, including program dashboards, analytics platforms, and integration with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and asset management tools.

• Collaborate with Procurement to align contract structures, vendor selection, and payment terms with Workplace Delivery’s portfolio controls and governance requirements.

• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate risks across Workplace Delivery, developing contingency plans to preserve business continuity.

• Lead the definition and delivery of annual business outcomes for Workplace Delivery Business Operations & Portfolio Controls, ensuring alignment with Site Services, Finance, and enterprise objectives.

• Oversee business services that support Workplace Delivery operations (e.g., administrative support, reporting cadence, tooling, standard templates), ensuring they enable consistent, high‑quality execution.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Organizational Systems, Architecture, Planning, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or related field.

• Graduate degree in Business, Engineering/Systems, Architecture/Planning, Real Estate, or a relevant discipline is highly desirable.

• PMI or equivalent Project Management certification is highly desirable; IACCM or similar contract management certification is a…