Principal Business Product Manager - Forecasting
About The Position
Genentech's Data, Digital, & Analytics (DDA) team partners with the Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) organization to leverage data, analytics, and AI/ML for impactful decision-making. The Insights & Analytics (I&A) Product Suite team within DDA builds enterprise-wide product solutions to provide CMG teams with a unified view of customers, actions, and outcomes. This role is within the Forecasting pillar of the I&A Product Suite, focusing on developing scalable, modern forecasting products and platforms. The goal is to transition from a fragmented, semi-manual forecasting process to a unified, predictive, and data-driven system that improves transparency, accuracy, and modeling agility. The Business Product Manager will lead a cross-functional team to bridge the gap between forecasting tools, processes, strategy, technology, and forecasters.
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 forecasting.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- MBA, or an MS in Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related graduate-level qualification.
- Experience working with AI (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.).
- Proficiency with Jira.
- Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
- Experience with product prototyping.
- Experience with cloud-based data environments.
- Deep knowledge of healthcare-specific data sets and the stringent compliance and privacy frameworks surrounding them.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Business Product Owner and/or Executive Director of Product Suite to define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for forecasting products.
- Translate pharmaceutical and forecasting domain knowledge into scalable forecasting solutions to enable strategic investment decisions and drive top-line growth.
- Manage advanced data and analytics products through their full lifecycle: ideation, requirement definition, launch, scaling, and optimization.
- Partner closely with Technical Product Managers, Data Leads, Data Scientists, and IT engineering to guide the development, deployment, and optimization of analytical models, API service layers, and UI/UX capabilities.
- Oversee end-to-end business process mapping, user feedback compilation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in partnership with business activation teams.
- Establish 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.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.
- Benefits detailed at the link provided below.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
