Engineering Project Management Group Leader/Director, Design & Construction

Lead Strategic Excellence and Build the Future as Engineering Project Management Group Leader/Director

Are you ready to take on a dynamic leadership role that drives impactful change across our cutting-edge biotech campuses? Genentech is seeking an experienced Engineering Project Management Group Leader/Director to strategically manage and deliver a diverse portfolio of construction projects that support the critical needs of our Pharma Tech (PT) organization. With oversight of projects ranging from $50K to $30M and an annual portfolio value of up to $80M, this role offers a unique opportunity to transform spaces and ensure the success of mission-critical operations across our South San Francisco and Dixon campuses. As the single point of accountability for project execution and customer success, you will lead a diverse team of project managers, foster relationships across functional and external partners, deliver portfolio excellence, and shape the future of our campus infrastructure through your leadership and vision. If you thrive in resource-sensitive environments and have a passion for innovation, customer collaboration, and operational improvements, this role is your next big move!

The Opportunity

Responsibilities:
The responsibilities for this position may include, but are not limited to:

• This Director level position has overall leadership and strategic accountability for a team of Genentech project managers in the execution of construction projects supporting a specific internal Genentech client group’s small project portfolio, PT (Pharma Tech – Manufacturing, Quality and Development) as well as cross site work projects.

• The small project portfolio will consist of projects ranging in dollar value between ~$50K and $10M for each project and will be located at the Genentech South San Francisco or Dixon campuses. Such a portfolio consists of ~30 – 60 active projects at any given time, have a total portfolio project value of $30M - $70M, and expected annual cash flow of $25M - $50M.

• The Director may also be responsible for several medium sized projects ($10M - $30M) in addition to managing the portfolio work.

• Overall value of projects overseen by this role will typically be in the range of $40M to $80 Million per year, with an annual cash flow of $30M - $70M

• The Director will be the key point of contact/liaison between Design & Construction and the representatives of their respective customer group, managing the relationships between the groups and resource planning to support the customer, and resolving escalated issues.

• Manage the relationships and alignment between Genentech and the alliance architectural\engineering firms and general contractors executing work on their portfolio.

• Leadership expectations of this position include ensuring that the group has the appropriate forward looking strategies to meet the business needs of the site.

• Responsible for managing the finances around the portfolio of customer projects, to support the customer in staying on budget targets for the year.

• A portion of the Director’s time will be spent on leading or supporting process improvements within Design & Construction.

• This role will have major interfaces with representatives of key customer groups (frequent ~PL7 to PL9 interactions, with periodic meetings with customer vice presidents, or VP \ Sr. VP levels in Site Services) and will carry full responsibility for the results of their organization to Genentech.

• Make decisions on how to best address customer project requests, the timing around project starts to meet customer needs and annual spend\cash flow targets, the approaches for efficient project delivery, staffing assignments, and issue resolution.

• This role is expected to be an effective communicator of ideas, project goals and results. With minimal supervision, is expected to make effective presentations and updates to senior management and in broader forums.

• Responsible for creating an environment for the team to learn, develop and grow – both from a leadership and technical perspective.

• This role will also frequently interact with senior leadership (Operations managers, Directors and Project Executives) of the key alliance design and construction firms hired to support the project work.

• A key role of the position is to manage ambiguous business situations, resolve conflicts or disagreements between different project