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The PositionThe Principal Data Advisory & Insights Specialist leads complex advisory engagements, providing expert data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to senior business leaders, with a primary focus on data platform cost transparency, unit economics, and platform usage optimization.
This role requires deep analytical expertise, a strong understanding of business strategy, and exceptional communication skills to identify high-impact opportunities, design sophisticated analytical approaches, and influence decision-making at an organizational level. In this role, you will mentor junior specialists, drive the adoption of advanced analytical techniques, and be instrumental in shaping the advisory practice's methodologies and offerings.
Job Responsibilities
Scope / (Content Leadership): Oversees multiple analysis projects and guides other specialists. Innovates and leads high-impact data advisory initiatives, specifically driving cost transparency frameworks across all data platform offerings.
Accountability/Problem Solving: Tackles highly complex business problems using data. Develops bespoke insights and strategies tailored to unique organizational challenges.
Stakeholder Management: Works closely with senior leadership to shape business strategy. Acts as a mentor to junior and associate specialists within the team.
Impact/Strategy: Leads high-impact projects that significantly influence overarching business strategy. Shapes the broader data advisory vision and strategy of the organization.
Complexity / (Product Size): Manages enterprise-level datasets and highly complex analysis projects. Designs and implements advanced data visualization and reporting frameworks to support business intelligence.
Business / Technical ability: Acts as an expert in data visualization tools and advanced analytical techniques. Possesses an in-depth understanding of business strategy and data-driven decision-making.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Extensive experience leading complex advisory engagements and providing strategic, data-driven recommendations to senior business leaders.
Proven track record of working closely with senior leadership to influence high-level business strategy, with expertise in data platform analytics, cost allocation, unit cost modeling, or FinOps.
Demonstrated experience in overseeing multiple analysis projects and guiding/mentoring junior team members.
Technical Skills
Strong capability to integrate disparate data sources, such as cloud platform telemetry, usage logs, billing APIs, and metadata catalogs. Solid data product knowledge across modern data platform offerings and architecture.
Expertise in data visualization tools and advanced analytical methodologies.
Strong capability in managing and analyzing enterprise-level datasets.
Ability to design, implement, and lead advanced data reporting frameworks and approaches for cost transparency and unit cost tracking.
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Additional Qualifications
Identify, map, and segment consumer groups to assign accurate cost allocation
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to identify high-impact opportunities and influence decision-making at an organizational level.
Deep understanding of business strategy and the application of data-driven decision-making to solve highly complex business problems.
Ability to identify and segment consumer groups to drive platform cost accountability across business units.
Strong leadership mindset with a dedication to driving the adoption of advanced techniques and shaping the practice's long-term methodologies.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience leading complex advisory engagements and providing strategic, data-driven recommendations to senior business leaders
- Experience influencing high-level business strategy
- Expertise in data platform analytics, cost allocation, unit cost modeling, or FinOps
- Experience overseeing multiple analysis projects
- Experience guiding and mentoring junior team members
- Ability to integrate cloud platform telemetry, usage logs, billing APIs, and metadata catalogs
- Knowledge of modern data platform offerings and architecture
- Expertise in data visualization tools and advanced analytical methodologies
- Experience managing and analyzing enterprise-level datasets
- Ability to design and lead reporting frameworks for cost transparency and unit cost tracking
- Ability to identify, map, and segment consumer groups for accurate cost allocation
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence organizational decision-making
- Strong understanding of business strategy and data-driven decision-making
- Leadership mindset and commitment to adopting advanced analytical techniques
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
