Executive Director, Omnichannel Orchestration

The Position

Executive Director, Omnichannel Orchestration

Why Genentech

We're passionate about delivering on Our Promise to improve the lives of patients and create healthier communities for all. We foster a culture of inclusivity, integrity and creativity while boldly pursuing answers to the world's most complex health challenges and transforming society.

Who We Are

Experience Operations (XO) is an organization that brings together both emerging and established centers of excellence in patient and customer experience, engagement design, co-creation, technology platforms/systems, digital solution enablement, end-to-end content management, digital and other engagement channels (web/mobile, social, relationship marketing, inside sales, samples, events, etc.), and omnichannel orchestration.

This combined team guides Marketing, Customer Engagement, Medical Affairs, Public Affairs & Access, and all other patient- and customer-facing teams across CMG to shape and drive a seamless, consistent, meaningful, and compliant experience for patients and customers across our interactions. The team is specifically accountable for:

• Defining omnichannel standards, shaping engagement strategies, and designing seamless, consistent & meaningful patient and customer experiences.

• Accelerating, connecting, and enabling the development of technology solutions that enhance the patient and customer experience across CMG.

• Advancing the goal of seamless, consistent & meaningful patient and customer experiences that maximize patient impact while keeping compliance at the forefront.

This role will report to the Vice President of Experience Operations

Job Summary:The Omnichannel Suite Steward is a pivotal role responsible for setting the strategic direction of the Omnichannel Product Portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities to maximize business impact. This position requires a visionary leader who can deliver innovative and scalable solutions across the enterprise. The Omnichannel Suite Steward will develop and implement cross-product strategies that align with the strategic objectives of Patients, Customers, and the Enterprise. As the CMG Owner for Omnichannel Products, this role will partner closely with end-user activation groups to ensure capture of business needs and successful pull-through & adoption of business-relevant products.

As the Director, Omnichannel Strategy, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Genentech's approach to customer engagement by developing and executing a comprehensive omnichannel strategy. This role will lead the integration of digital, retail, and field channels, creating seamless, data-driven experiences that enhance the customer journey for healthcare professionals and key opinion leaders. In this position, you will optimize touchpoints across all channels, ensuring consistent messaging and alignment with our broader commercial, medical, and access goals. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will champion best-in-class marketing technologies, elevating Genentech's ability to engage with healthcare stakeholders in a dynamic, regulated environment. Your leadership will drive customer loyalty and enhance Genentech's market performance, positioning the company as a trusted partner to our customers, patients, and healthcare professionals worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Roadmap Development

• Define and execute a strategic roadmap for the Omnichannel Product Portfolio, establishing and ensuring adherence to standards while collaborating with senior leadership, and key stakeholders.

• Set the strategic direction for the Omnichannel Product Portfolio, aligning with organizational priorities to maximize business impact and deliver innovative, scalable solutions across the enterprise.

• Evaluate and prioritize high-impact use cases that drive measurable enterprise business outcomes and value for patients, organized customers, providers, and payers, ensuring a balanced Omnichannel Product Portfolio.

• Serve as the executive champion for the Omnichannel Products Portfolio, articulating its strategic value to senior stakeholders, influencing enterprise decision-making, achieving enterprise objectives, communicating value to stakeholders, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.

• Define and oversee the full lifecycle strategy for the Omnichannel Products Portfolio from identifying and integrating new products to sunsetting legacy offerings, optimizing for suite performance and evolving marketing and business priorities.

Adoption Enablement, Experimentation & Performance Optimization

• Partner with Medical, Commercial, and Access in the creation and execution of comprehensive learning experiences (e.g., training modules, workshops, and hands-on sessions) to upskill teams on channel-specific capabilities.

• Develop and implement a structured change management strategy, in partnership with relevant Genentech Activation teams, including stakeholder engagement, communication plans, and providing ongoing support.

• Define hypotheses, design experiments, and conduct tests in collaboration with analytics and product teams.

• Set and track performance and adoption metrics, in partnership with Genentech Activation teams, including regularly reporting on efficiency gains and business impact.

External Collaboration & Vendor Partnerships

• Establish a standardized approach to partner with external user groups to sense, gather, and define business requirements, customer insights, market opportunities, user feedback/input, and technology trends to shape the overall product strategy & roadmap.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead enterprise-wide and network-wide initiatives to promote cross-product understanding and collect feedback through orchestrated rituals.

• Works with peers, VP and SVP level leaders across Genentech to sense, gather, and define business requirements, customer insights, market opportunities, user feedback/input, and technology trends to shape the overall product strategy.

• Drive cross-functional alignment at the highest levels, collaborating seamlessly with other leaders across Commercial, Medical, Access and Informatics to align strategies with business objectives, accelerate product development, drive adoption and track progress of the Omnichannel Product Portfolio.

Governance & Compliance Partnership

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Legal, Compliance, and Medical Affairs, to mitigate business risks and uphold Genentech's ethical standards.

• Comply with all laws, regulations and policies that govern the conduct of Genentech activities.

People & Culture

• Build highly-connected, highly-motivated and high-performing teams by leading, developing and inspiring a thriving Omnichannel Suite team and fostering belonging within and across teams.

• Provide guidance, training, and career development opportunities for team members.

• Drive a culture of performance through annual performance management and rewards and recognition of all team members, cultivating an environment of both accountability and performance-based incentives

• Make decisions regarding resource allocation and investments both in the near-term and long-term across the suite of Omnichannel products.

• Shift and re-allocate resources effectively to ensure organizational strategic priorities are met while balancing workloads and optimizing suite team performance.

• Lead a team through the ideation, capability building, and launch of innovative products.

Who You Are

• A strategic digital / commercial leader with experience in Omnichannel product development in regulated pharmaceutical / devices and digital transformation.

• Strong change management and stakeholder engagement skills to drive adoption across diverse teams.

• Familiarity with the regulatory and compliance landscape in highly regulated industries.

• Ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

Minimum Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, customer experience, or a related field.

• 12+ years of experience in customer or product-focused roles, with experience driving Omnichannel product advancement and implementation

• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience in coaching, developing, and inspiring talent

• Proven ability to own and manage the full product lifecycle, including visioning, roadmap creation, execution, and impact measurement.

• Understanding of how to design and evolve user & customer-centric experiences to drive customer satisfaction.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated success in facilitating cross-functional collaboration.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret customer insights and drive operational decisions.

• Experience working in an standard DevOps agile setting or bringing agile best-practice mentorship to the team

Additional Desired Candidate Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or related graduate-level qualification).

• Experience with a focus on implementing product strategy, preferably in healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industries

• Familiarity with industry best practices and benchmarks for customer experience design.

• Experience leveraging CX insights to inform strategic decisions and optimize business processes.

Location

• This position is based in South San Francisco, CA or Remote

• Relocation assistance is available at this time.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is 227,500.00 - 422,500.00. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

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