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About the Role
The Director, Portfolio Strategy & Governance will shape and lead the portfolio operating model for Digital Finance, creating the transparency, prioritization, governance, and accountability needed to translate digital strategy into measurable business outcomes. This leader will own the end-to-end portfolio strategy and governance framework across a diverse portfolio spanning enterprise platforms and ERP stabilization, data and analytics, AI, automation, process optimization, and data governance. Working across Finance, technology, data, and global teams, the Director will establish how opportunities are evaluated and prioritized, how investments and capacity are aligned to strategic priorities, and how progress, risks, dependencies, and value are surfaced to leadership. This role requires a leader who can move fluidly between strategy and execution - designing the portfolio operating model while ensuring governance mechanisms, decision forums, and operating rhythms translate into disciplined execution, adoption, and measurable value. The Director will lead primarily through influence, creating alignment and accountability across a highly matrixed enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the Digital Finance portfolio strategy and operating model, ensuring alignment to business priorities and enterprise direction.
- Design and lead a structured intake and prioritization approach for opportunities, balancing strategic value, demand, risk, dependencies, and capacity.
- Own the end-to-end portfolio view, including roadmap, milestones, interdependencies, resourcing, risks, investment needs, and key decisions.
- Partner with leaders to make portfolio trade-offs and ensure resources and investments focus on high-value priorities.
- Establish and lead governance forums, portfolio reviews, intake councils, escalation pathways, decision rights, and decision logs.
- Define portfolio and delivery standards, including documentation, status reporting, templates, operating cadences, and agile practices.
- Create clear mechanisms for managing cross-portfolio dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions, driving resolution and accountability.
- Ensure major changes and portfolio decisions are documented with appropriate traceability for internal controls, compliance, and audit readiness.
- Establish an outcome-based portfolio performance and value realization framework connecting initiatives to measurable business outcomes.
- Define and track relevant measures such as time savings, cycle-time reduction, error reduction, adoption, and service-level improvements.
- Support portfolio-level business case and investment tracking, maintaining visibility into spend across contractors, vendors, tools, and investments.
- Use portfolio insights to identify delivery trends, risks, capacity constraints, and opportunities for improvement.
- Serve as a strategic partner to Digital Finance and business leaders, translating complex portfolio information into clear insights, choices, and recommendations.
- Coordinate across Finance, IT, data governance, architecture, global teams, and other enterprise partners to maintain alignment.
- Partner with change, communications, and business owners to ensure effective rollout, training, adoption, and sustained outcomes.
- Lead through influence by setting operating cadence, coaching workstream leads, facilitating decisions, and driving accountability across matrixed teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; MBA/MS preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in portfolio or program leadership, enterprise transformation, strategy and operations, transformation governance, enterprise PMO, finance transformation, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience building or materially evolving portfolio operating models, including intake, prioritization, governance forums, decision rights, capacity planning, and portfolio-level performance management.
- Proven track record leading or governing complex portfolios that span technology and process transformation, such as enterprise platforms/ERP, data and analytics, automation, AI, or operating-model change.
- Ability to connect enterprise strategy to execution while creating the structures, operating rhythms, and accountability needed to deliver outcomes.
- Experience establishing outcome measures and connecting portfolio investments and delivery performance to business value and adoption.
- Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to facilitate decisions, influence senior stakeholders, navigate competing priorities, and build alignment across functions without relying on direct authority.
- Experience operating in complex, matrixed organizations; experience in regulated or controlled environments with strong documentation, traceability, and compliance requirements is preferred.
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Prosci, or equivalent portfolio/program/change certification is valued but not required.
Skills
- Portfolio Strategy
- Portfolio Governance
- Operating Model Design
- Prioritization Frameworks
- Roadmap Management
- Risk Management
- Dependency Management
- Capacity Planning
- Performance Management
- Value Realization
- Stakeholder Management
- Executive Leadership
- Influence
- Change Management
- Agile Practices
Location
- South San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA/MS preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $160,300 - $297,700
- Discretionary annual bonus may be available
Benefits
- Relocation benefits are not available
- Qualifies for detailed benefits package
About the Company
- A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
Equal Opportunity
- Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence.
- The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.
- If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants.