Portfolio Leader

The Opportunity

As Portfolio Leader you will focus on providing Portfolio Strategy, Portfolio Management and Portfolio Insights & Analytics to partners across Pharma and the Roche enterprise. You will be expected to closely collaborate with colleagues in relevant groups beyond PSM in co-creating deliverables. You will also be involved in the development and application of analytical tools, financial models, and data-driven insights to shape the Pharma portfolio.

Key Accountabilities

• Strategic investment analysis - Provide analytical expertise to evaluate strategic options, leveraging financial modeling (rNPV, scenario analysis, trade-off optimization) to quantify risk, asset value, and competitive positioning that guide capital allocation decisions.
• Strategy support - Partner with Pharma Leaders to co-create and deliver robust portfolio and business strategies that provide the scaffolding for Pharma portfolio decisions
• Portfolio assessments and presentations - Manage and communicate portfolio dynamics (risk, value, mix, competitive positioning etc.) to inform portfolio decisions and strategy updates. Develop portfolio content and actionable insights presented to Executive Leadership.
• Decision support and valuation - Active thought partner to teams and decision-makers including, defining/scoping of tactics to deliver on defined business strategies
• Decision management and ecosystem architecture - Ensure decision quality by architecting the path to a decision, the decision making model, and portfolio prioritization. Design/evolve advice seeking and fit-for-purpose engagement opportunities, and develop/evolve resources and guidance to support decision making and portfolio management.
• Insights & analytics - Design, develop and improve portfolio metrics, analytics, and dynamic visualizations that enable operational efficiency and optimal decision-making and targeted communications. In addition, provide and update guidance on valuation and risk methodologies used by teams and decision-makers. Key deliverables include quarterly Pharma Portfolio Reports, annual R&D performance benchmarking, business planning and ad hoc requests.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics, Finance, Data Science, Engineering, or a similar quantitative discipline; Advanced degree (MS, PhD, MBA) highly preferred
• Strong understanding of disease/drug development to translate competitive/industry insights into actions.
• You have strong experience using a combination of quantitative rigor and collaborative partnership across matrixed technical teams (including Finance, Data Science, and Informatics) to ensure strategic models are translated into actionable portfolio delivery.
• You apply financial modeling and decision analysis to guide portfolio management decisions in the pharma/biotech or similar industry
• You have proven experience with tools like Python, R, and Tableau to you automate analytical workflows and generate predictive portfolio insights

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a dedicated and passionate individual, driven by our shared purpose of co-creating and delivering the portfolio for the benefit of patients.
• You thrive in environments of ambiguity and collaboration where authority and accountability is distributed between all of the people involved and where advice seeking is foundational.
• You are an effective communicator who shares information transparently and strategically. You are comfortable with working out loud and the principles of iteration and experimentation, and are an active listener.
• You are a strategic thinker who connects traditional biopharma strategy with the latest technology-enabled quantitative analytics.
• You are an effective communicator capable of synthesizing complex probabilistic models into clear narratives that guide portfolio decision-makers and leadership.