Functional Analytics & Insights Director - Finance & Corporate Communications

 Functional Analytics & Insights Director - Finance & Corporate Communications

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.

Who We Are

Our Data, Analytics, and AI team is dedicated to solving complex healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes. Data, Analytics, and AI empowers business partners across Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) to make impactful decisions by leveraging data, analytics, business products, and AI/ML to enable fast, targeted actions in rapidly evolving business contexts.

Data, Analytics, and AI fosters a unified understanding of customers, actions, and outcomes by integrating analytics and insights seamlessly into CMG’s evolving digital, data, and automation platforms, creating scalable solutions and eliminating silos.

In Data, Analytics, and AI, you will work as a trusted, objective advisor and expert, recommending critical decisions and actions to be taken with credibility and a focus on driving measurable impact. You will be part of a thriving culture built on collaboration and innovation.

Job Summary

The Functional Analytics & Insights Director - Finance & Corporate Communications is responsible for delivering impactful, data-driven insights that guide key business decisions across functions, with a focus on Finance. In this role, the director collaborates closely with senior leaders across USLT, Policy & Access, US Medical, and Finance, to identify and analyze critical business needs, ensuring that analytical workstreams are aligned with strategic priorities. The director develops tailored solutions that drive organizational value, providing clear, actionable recommendations based on deep domain expertise. By embedding analytics products into workflows and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, this role enhances analytical capabilities and supports the strategic direction of the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise stakeholders to define clear, impactful business priorities, and develop action plans. Develop strategic options and recommendations by synthesizing findings, connecting insights across therapeutic areas, ecosystems, or analytic domains, and aligning them with organizational goals.

• Demonstrate mastery in tailoring communication to specific audiences, communicating and influencing senior leaders and simplifying details for stakeholder buy-in.

• Translate strategic vision into actionable insights by leveraging a strong analytical background and deep subject matter expertise in respective domain(s) to ensure successful execution of initiatives across teams and functions.

• Sense business needs through stakeholder interactions, drive towards outcomes through high degrees of uncertainty, and lead cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives.

• Catalyze and entrench new solutions and ways of working into the business.

• Demonstrate mastery of a capability, and pro-actively help teammates build proficiency/mastery of that capability.

• Demonstrate leadership through pro-active, informal coaching and mentorship of analysts across the team.

• Autonomously operates and manages all levels of stakeholders (with extremely limited/no manager guidance).

• Accountable for pro-actively providing expertise, strategic planning support and execution against evolution of a capability.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand business needs, key questions, and priorities, and ensure alignment with project objectives and analytic lead direction.

• Perform custom analyses by applying appropriate analytic techniques to address business challenges. 

• Take an enterprise mindset, linking individual responsibilities with broader organization; focus on outcomes that provide most business and patient value. 

• Contribute to continuous organizational improvement by sharing best practices, identifying opportunities for automation, and enhancing the efficiency and impact of analytic workflows.

• Play an active role in the adoption and activation of analytical products by staying up to date on the product roadmap, participating in training, user testing (as needed), and providing constructive feedback to ensure