Data Product Management & Strategy Lead

The Advanced Analytics for Business Insights (AABI) team, part of the Portfolio Strategy & Insights function, is dedicated to solving complex healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes. AABI enables business partners across Global Pharma Strategy (GPS), Medical Affairs (PDMA), Pharma International (PI) and other functions to make impactful decisions by leveraging data, analytics, and AI to enable fast, targeted actions in rapidly evolving business contexts.

About the role

The Data Product Management & Strategy Lead role is foundational for AABI and broader GPS, driving commercial excellence by overseeing end-to-end data management and data architecture to deliver fit-for-purpose data products and services. This role will shape the data strategy that enables digital operations and transforms the data stack to meet advanced analytics and AI needs. The lead will manage a diverse team focused on developing data products, stewarding data, maintaining data quality, and leading data initiatives to meet business needs. The team also serves as a center of excellence for data inquiries across Roche affiliates, collaborating with functions such as the global data office, Roche Digital Technology (RDT), Data Governance team, and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand customer engagement and information utilization by business users across commercial operations to develop and guide the global data management strategy and integration roadmap based on prioritized business requirements.
• Serve as the executive champion for data assets and products, articulating strategic value to senior stakeholders, influencing enterprise decision-making, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.
• Collaborate with other functions across Roche to design and move the organization toward a common data backbone for an integrated customer and patient experience.
• Oversee the design and implementation of a global Master Data Management (MDM) backbone to ensure consistency, quality, and integrity of master data across systems (e.g., Customer, Product, Patient).
• Drive integration of commercial master data across platforms and business units to enable a unified, enterprise view of customers.
• Manage data operations to deliver pertinent, accurate, and timely data to business users globally and across affiliates.
• Lead the development of data products with an enterprise mindset to address business performance, customer segmentation, resource optimization, content management, and next-best actions.
• Work with Martech and analytical product owners, functional leads in global insights & competitive intelligence, and affiliate stakeholders to map their needs and drive domain-oriented data product delivery.
• Foster a culture of innovation by exploring new technologies, machine learning, and AI to create next-generation global and local data products that enhance commercial operations.
• Collaborate with peers and senior leaders across Roche to align internal business requirements with the data strategy and roadmap.
• Balance enterprise needs by prioritizing and sequencing product releases orchestrated with other products across the portfolio.
• Build, lead, and motivate a diverse team with deep stakeholder and business operations knowledge.
• Invest in team development, empowering through a clear vision and strategic direction while fostering effective communication, urgency, and collaboration.
• Ensure efficient management of a large budget and resources to deliver business outcomes, making necessary trade-offs and tracking portfolio progress.
• Define hypotheses, design experiments, and conduct tests in collaboration with stakeholders; set and track performance and adoption metrics across the data product stack.
• Partner with business solutions teams and affiliate squad leads to devise a structured change management strategy, including stakeholder engagement, communication plans, and ongoing support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in computer science, engineering, healthcare information systems, or a similar technical discipline); MBA or other related graduate-level degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in data management roles, with emphasis on commercial data management solutions.
• Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical data domain, both global and regional/country-level ecosystems.
• Proven ability to own and manage the full product lifecycle, including visioning, roadmap creation, execution, and impact measurement.
• Strong understanding of platforms including MDM (Reltio, Informatica Cloud, or others), CRM (Veeva or Salesforce), and Marketing Automation (Adobe or others).
• Understanding of Data Mesh architectures on cloud environments (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks) to support continuous deployment of analytical and AI data products.
• Strong experience designing and implementing complex global and cross-country data solutions; experience working in a standard DevOps agile setting or bringing agile best-practice mentorship to the team.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience coaching, developing, and inspiring talent.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated success in facilitating cross-functional collaboration.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret data insights and drive operational decisions.
• Business travel required for regular internal and external meetings.

Pay

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $198,200 - $368,200 USD annually. 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.

Benefits

This position qualifies for the benefits detailed at Genentech’s benefits page.