Director, PAA Activation and Capabilities Enablement

The Opportunity

In partnership with user and leadership teams across PAA (and select teams across CMG), this role will develop strategy, vision and be accountable to deliver and maintain products and tools that enable our Access and Contracting Foundational Capabilities within Public Affairs and Access.  These capabilities are an interconnected set of products, tools and services that support our end to end contracting lifecycle and are used by PAA functional teams in order to maximize patient access through nimbly executed, profitable contracts.  These tools, process and outputs also may be used cross CMG to help drive various CMG level priorities and workstreams.

As a Director on the Access and Contracting Foundational Capabilities Team within Activation and Capabilities Engagement, you will be accountable for product(s) vision, strategy, roadmap and end-to-end product lifecycle. You will promote a strong focus on Product Management including networked, agile ways of working and role model business partnering closely collaborating with stakeholders, strategy, roadmaps and portfolios and co-create solutions to maximize the value delivered by the agile teams within your product area. 

What you will be working on:

Access and Contracting is a set of Foundational Capabilities and tools used by various members across Public Affairs and Access to ensure access to medicines in Genentech’s evolving portfolio and competitive landscape. 

These capabilities cover business critical systems directly impacting Genentech’s ability to achieve organization goals.  Failure and/or downtime of these systems and capabilities could result in significant financial, operational and/or reputation impact to the company.  Thus this role and its oversight is critical in ensuring Genentech’s continued success and that the organization is achieving its critical objectives and goals.

To do this, we need to ensure these tools and capabilities are best-in-class and we continuously improve and evolve them with the changing market and policy environment in order to support our Public Affairs and Access user communities.  In addition, we want to support these user groups in their continued adoption and use of these tools particularly in such a dynamic market and policy environment with constant change and high uncertainty.

As a Director, Activation and Capabilities Enablement ACE you will:

• Own specific Product(s) within the Access and Contracting Foundational Capabilities domain and ultimately be responsible for their strategy, design, development, implementation.    

• Be responsible for managing a team of product managers or leads in your focused product areas.

• Be an integral part of the A&C Product Management Team responsible for cross product strategy and decisions.

• Partner heavily with end users and leadership teams within PAA as well as PAA Activation & Engagement leads to ensure the right prioritization and to support organizational change management and adoption of new tools, processes and systems within impacted PAA user groups. 

• Partner heavily with PAA Process Enablement Leads to build strong domain knowledge of PAA technology and processes and act as SME for PAA and the broader CMG organization when needed.

For this current role, the Product focus will be the 1)  Contract Lifecycle Management and 2) Revenue Leakage Foundational Capabilities product areas.  Note: while this is the current focus, given the dynamic nature of our business and Genentech’s market access and contracting needs, this role’s product focus and oversight may shift overtime.

Responsibilities:

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT AND PARTNERING

• Key stakeholders and customers for this role will be users and Senior leadership across PAA including individuals members of teams and leadership teams across any of the 5 functions in PAA.  For example, CCM-LT and various leadership teams within CCM (e.g. CSI-LT, GP-LT, MCC-LT) would be critical partners based on the current products areas of the role 

• Working with contracting and access subject matter experts,  understand implications, advantages, and limitations of implementing technology, tools on business critical access and contracting processes/organizations and leverage input gathered from key PAA stakeholders to drive and implement recommended changes to enable transformation 

• Deeply connect and understand the customer and closely partner with stakeholders and customers to develop the strategic direction of the p