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About the Role

We are seeking a visionary, highly strategic, and technical Business Product Manager to lead the evolution of our Commercial Forecasting ecosystem. This role involves translating complex pharmaceutical forecasting dynamics into scalable, modern forecasting products and platforms, moving the organization towards a unified, predictive, and data-driven approach. You will lead a cross-functional team to enhance transparency, accuracy, and modeling agility.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Business Product Owner and/or Executive Director of Product Suite to support the definition of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for forecasting products.
Translate deep pharmaceutical and forecasting domain knowledge into scalable forecasting solutions that enable strategic investment decision making and reimagine forecasting transparency, accuracy, fluency, and efficiency.
Manage advanced data and analytics products through their full lifecycle: from ideation and complex requirement definition to launch, scaling, and ongoing performance optimization.
Partner closely with Technical Product Managers, Data Leads, Data Scientists, and IT engineering to steer the development, deployment, and optimization of sophisticated analytical models, API service layers, and intuitive UI/UX capabilities.
Oversee end-to-end business process mapping, user feedback compilation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure high-velocity feature rollouts and immediate end-user adoption.
Establish robust agile operational standards, backlog management rigor, and reusable product templates for efficient execution.
Work closely with Forecasters, Finance partners, Data Science, RDT/IT, Field Analytics, and Digital Experience teams to deliver comprehensive forecasting tools.
Drive cross-functional consensus and evangelize the product’s strategic value proposition to executive stakeholders.
Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, finance stakeholders, and technical teams.
Champion a practice-based apprenticeship model, coaching, mentoring, and upskilling cross-functional product teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Data Science, or another quantitative field.
8+ years of total professional experience.
At least 5 years dedicated to pharmaceutical analytics or business analytics product management across multiple therapeutic areas.
Proven experience in a Product Manager or Product Owner role, successfully guiding an analytical or digital product through its full lifecycle.
Ability to design scalable product solutions that address common business challenges and serve the broader organization.
Strong domain expertise in pharmaceutical revenue forecasting, with a minimum of 2 years experience building and owning revenue forecast models during core planning cycles.
Deep understanding of pharma data across commercial, medical, sales, and access and how to utilize it to build a forecast.
Demonstrated success in aligning cross-functional stakeholders.
Professional maturity to push back on requests that misalign with corporate objectives.
Extensive experience working in an Agile environment.
Experience managing complex product backlogs.
Experience coordinating tightly with technical IT and Data engineering teams.
Exceptional presentation skills, with the ability to evangelize the product vision to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Highly collaborative and able to influence cross functionally to develop and evolve product roadmaps.
Experience working with AI (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.).
Proficiency with Jira, data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), product prototyping, and cloud-based data environments.
Deep knowledge of healthcare-specific data sets and the stringent compliance and privacy frameworks surrounding them.

Skills

Pharmaceutical forecasting
Product strategy
Roadmap development
Product lifecycle management
Agile methodologies
Data analysis
AI/ML
Stakeholder management
Cross-functional collaboration
Communication
Presentation skills
Jira
Data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
Product prototyping
Cloud-based data environments

Location

South San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director-level
8+ years of total professional experience
5+ years in pharmaceutical analytics or business analytics product management
2+ years building and owning revenue forecast models

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Data Science, or another quantitative field
MBA or MS in Business Analytics, Data Science, or related graduate-level qualification (desired)

Salary/Compensations

$161,600 - $300,000 USD Annual
Discretionary annual bonus may be available

Benefits

Detailed benefits available at the provided link.

About the Company

Genentech is passionate about improving patient lives and building healthier communities—leading with inclusivity, integrity, and creativity to tackle the world's most complex health challenges.
The Data, Digital, & Analytics (DDA) team partners with the Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) organization to turn data, analytics, and AI/ML into fast, high-impact decisions.
The Insights & Analytics (I&A) Product Suite team builds scalable, enterprise-wide product solutions that eliminate silos and give CMG teams a unified view of customers, actions, and outcomes—serving as a trusted advisor with a clear focus on measurable results.
The I&A Product Suite team is organized across four pillars: 360 Insights, Forecasting, Targeting & Recommendation, and Measurement & Optimization.

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.