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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field
- 8+ years of directly related professional experience
- 3+ years of experience in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, or the supported business function
- Experience leading extremely complex projects with enterprise-wide implications
- Deep expertise in multiple consultancy capabilities
- Business process domain knowledge across multiple domains
- Ability to scale Agile frameworks across multiple squads or product teams
- Experience shaping product roadmaps and workforce strategies using industry knowledge and strategic trends
- Exceptional executive stakeholder management and strategic communication skills
- Master's degree
- Management consultancy experience
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, vision, mental health, and prescriptions, supported by HSAs/FSAs and broad wellness resources. On‑site fitness and health centers, mental‑health clinicians, and specialized programs like fully covered preventive cancer screenings and menopause support deepen the offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) with up to a 4% company match plus an additional annual 6% company contribution to eligible pay. Additional financial protections such as life and accident insurance complement salary, bonuses, and stock options.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes about 20 paid vacation days, paid holidays, personal days, and a year‑end shutdown. A paid six‑week sabbatical every six years notably expands long‑term time‑off flexibility.
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Considered the founder of the industry, Genentech, now a member of the Roche Group, has been delivering on the promise of biotechnology for more than 40 years. Genentech is a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Our transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis. We're passionate about finding solutions for people facing the world's most difficult-to-treat conditions. That is why we use cutting-edge science to create and deliver innovative medicines around the globe. To us, science is personal. Making a difference in the lives of millions starts when you make a change in yours.
