Senior Insights & Analytics Specialist

Roche•Mississauga, ON

About The Position

The Senior Insights & Analytics Specialist is part of the Resourcing & Metrics team within Business Strategy & Operations (BSO), which supports Product Development Data Sciences (PDD) through strategic execution, operational excellence, quality frameworks, and resourcing. The role translates PDD’s resourcing, workforce, financial, and operational data into actionable insights for senior leadership and serves as the primary orchestrator of insights for PDD’s Resourcing Governance, a recurring forum involving the SVP, PDD Leadership Team, and functional resourcing leaders. The role leads the consolidation, analysis, and development of Resourcing Governance content, partnering with the Head of Resourcing & Metrics on agenda and storyline. It integrates information from across PDD to build a coherent view of organizational capacity, demand, and emerging needs, and explains underlying drivers, implications, risks, opportunities, and potential course corrections. The specialist develops leadership-ready analyses, presentations, and forward-looking scenarios; monitors data between governance cycles; and escalates material changes or issues requiring leadership attention. The specialist works with R&M Operations & Delivery to ensure analyses use accurate, validated information, and with Data & Analytics Infrastructure colleagues to identify opportunities involving dashboards, automation, AI, and advanced analytics. The role also supports operational priorities across workforce planning, metrics, sourcing, vendor, financial, and planning activities; helps develop competitive intelligence; and continually improves the team’s analytical questions, metrics, and approaches. The position may be based in Roche’s Welwyn Garden City, UK; Boston, MA, US; or Mississauga, ON, CA offices. Relocation assistance is not available. The posting does not specify a work arrangement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Data & Analytics, Human Resources, Life Sciences, or a related field.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in analytics, strategy, business operations, workforce planning, consulting, or a related field.
Proven ability to synthesize complex information from multiple sources and translate it into concise, actionable insights for senior leadership.
Strong analytical judgment and curiosity, with the ability to identify underlying drivers rather than merely describe data.
Proactive thinking and ability to anticipate emerging trends, risks, and decision points.
Excellent storytelling and executive communication skills.
Independent thinking and sound judgment, including willingness to challenge assumptions and surface issues that may require leadership attention.
Comfort working with enterprise analytics and visualization platforms.
Ability to respect cultural differences and work effectively across a global, highly matrixed organization.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex analytical concepts in clear, accessible language.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience developing executive-level presentations, insights, recommendations, or decision-support materials for senior leadership.
Experience supporting senior governance forums, leadership teams, business reviews, workforce reviews, or similar recurring executive decision-making processes.
Experience in strategic workforce planning, capacity planning, resource allocation, organizational analytics, or financial planning.
Experience conducting scenario analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics, or other forward-looking analytical work.
Experience conducting competitive intelligence, external benchmarking, market research, or industry trend analysis.
Experience leveraging AI, advanced analytics, or automation to accelerate analysis, identify patterns, or generate new insights.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end consolidation, analysis, and content development for PDD’s Resourcing Governance, a recurring senior leadership forum.
Partner with the Head of Resourcing & Metrics to shape the governance agenda and storyline, identifying key questions, insights, trade-offs, and decisions.
Integrate resourcing, workforce, financial, sourcing, portfolio, and operational information into a coherent view of organizational capacity, demand, and emerging needs.
Explain why data matters by identifying underlying drivers, implications, risks, opportunities, and potential areas for course correction.
Develop leadership-ready analyses and presentations communicating findings, trends, scenarios, and recommendations to senior audiences.
Monitor resourcing and metrics data between governance cycles, identify material changes, anomalies, risks, or opportunities, and escalate issues that may require leadership attention or action.
Develop forward-looking analyses and scenarios to anticipate workforce, capacity, sourcing, and resource needs.
Work with R&M Operations & Delivery to ensure analyses use accurate, validated, and trusted source information, and provide feedback on emerging analytical and data needs.
Partner with Data & Analytics Infrastructure colleagues to identify opportunities to use dashboards, automation, AI, and advanced analytics to improve insight generation and decision support.
Support operational priorities across workforce planning, metrics, sourcing, vendor, financial, and planning activities.
Help establish and evolve a competitive intelligence capability by monitoring relevant external clinical developments across the pharmaceutical industry and other leading organizations.
Continuously improve the team’s analytical questions, metrics, and approaches, shifting from primarily reporting information toward proactive strategic insight.