Data Analytics Manager
About the job
- A bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related field is required.
- At least 2 years of experience as a data analyst, data scientist, or in a related position is required.
- Academic or professional experience must include pharma data analytics.
- Academic or professional experience must include data visualizations for business reporting and key performance indicator tracking.
- Academic or professional experience must include statistical modeling and coding.
- Academic or professional experience must include synthesizing complex analytical work into simple strategic narratives.
- Academic or professional experience must include programming and scripting languages for claims and sales data retrieval and processing.
- Academic or professional experience must include data science algorithms for sales forecasting, A/B testing, and hypothesis testing.
- Academic or professional experience must include strategic operations, analysis design, and measurement planning.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to research and understand markets and applications to business needs, key questions, and priorities, and ensure alignment with project objectives and analytic lead direction in a highly matrixed organization.
- Perform custom analyses by applying appropriate analytic techniques to address business challenges.
- Share best practices, identify opportunities for automation, and enhance the efficiency and impact of analytic workflows.
- Participate in the adoption of analytical products by staying up to date on product roadmaps, participating in training and user testing as needed, and providing constructive feedback to ensure products are integrated into workflows.
- Embed and integrate products into workflows and foster a Data, Analytics, and AI product-first culture.
- Interact with and guide offshore teams to ensure alignment with project objectives and maintain high-quality deliverables.
- Contribute to the community of practice by sharing knowledge, participating in discussions, and supporting peers to enhance collective expertise and drive continuous improvement.
- Tailor communication to specific audiences, communicate with and influence senior leaders, and simplify details for stakeholder buy-in.
- Independently handle project tasks and proactively seek managerial guidance as needed.
- Identify risks and seek manager input to drive positive project outcomes.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research with patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and other healthcare ecosystem stakeholders to assess and improve the patient experience.
- Generate revenue and supply forecasts, perform uncertainty analyses, and provide actionable insights for strategic business decisions.
- Monitor and track the competitive landscape, assess competitive threats, and gather intelligence from national and regional medical conferences to inform strategy and positioning.
- Analyze secondary and structured datasets to surface actionable insights that benefit customers and patients.
- Apply expertise in managed care to assess payer management, coverage, coding, pricing, contracting, and other reimbursement drivers, and work to remove barriers to Genentech therapies while improving the overall customer experience.
- Design and conduct digital analytics and performance measurement to generate insights that inform strategy.
About the company
Roche is a global leader in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. It develops medicines and diagnostic tools that help detect, monitor, and treat diseases, using research and biotechnology to drive new therapies and tests. Roche combines drug development with in-house diagnostic products to support personalized medicine, where treatments are tailored to individual patients based on test results. Its approach differs from many peers by integrating drug discovery with diagnostic capabilities and by expanding its research through strategic acquisitions (like Genentech) to strengthen its biotechnology and R&D capabilities. The company’s goal is to improve patient outcomes and healthcare worldwide by delivering reliable medicines, accurate diagnostic tests, and data-driven care.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Basel, Switzerland
Founded
1896
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Enicepatide delivered 15.5% weight loss in September 2026 and 22.7% in June.
- pTau217 can scale immediately through Roche's existing lab network and improve Alzheimer diagnostics.
- Roche's June 2026 data and September 2026 filings signal multiple obesity shots on goal.
What critics are saying
- Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk dominate obesity pricing, distribution, and physician mindshare today.
- Enicepatide remains Phase II-only; Roche starts late-stage glycemic and cardiovascular studies in 2027.
- If enicepatide disappoints, Roche burns its $2.7 billion Carmot bet and loses obesity credibility.
What makes Roche unique
- Roche combines pharma, diagnostics, and installed cobas labs across 4,500 U.S. instruments.
- Elecsys pTau217 won FDA clearance on August 24, 2026, and CE marking September 7.
- Roche controls obesity assets from Carmot and Zealand, spanning GLP-1/GIP and amylin.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Roche's Tecentriq in combination with a fluoropyrimidine and oxaliplatin for adjuvant treatment of stage III deficient DNA mismatch repair colon cancer. This marks Tecentriq's twelfth approved indication in the US. The approval follows the phase III ATOMIC study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, which demonstrated that Tecentriq plus chemotherapy reduced the risk of disease recurrence or death by 50% compared to chemotherapy alone. The 36-month disease-free survival rate was 86% with the combination versus 76% with chemotherapy alone. Nearly 25% of colon cancers are diagnosed at stage III, and almost one in three stage III patients experience recurrence within five years. This represents the first approved adjuvant immunotherapy regimen for this patient population. Roche is pursuing further regulatory filings, including with the European Medicines Agency.
Roche posted strong Phase 2 results for its weight loss drug enicepatide, showing 22.5% mean weight loss over 48 weeks. This compares favourably to Eli Lilly's Zepbound, which achieved 20.2% weight loss over 72 weeks in a separate trial. In another Phase 2 study, enicepatide demonstrated HbA1c reductions of up to 2.65 percentage points in diabetic patients after 48 weeks, compared to tirzepatide's 2.37 percentage points after 52 weeks. Despite promising results, Roche faces stiff competition from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, which both have deep pipelines in development. Novo Nordisk's CagriSema is nearing approval, whilst Eli Lilly's retatrutide has posted strong Phase 3 results. Roche's revenue grew 6% year over year in the first half of the year to 30.4 billion Swiss francs.
Roche has launched a newborn screening test that simultaneously detects three severe genetic conditions: Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, and Sickle Cell Disease. TIB MOLBIOL, a Roche subsidiary, developed the LightMix Newborn TREC/SMN1/HBB kit for use in countries accepting the CE mark. The test enables early detection before symptoms appear, allowing clinicians to initiate life-changing treatments sooner. Early intervention can prevent severe nerve damage in SMA, enable lifesaving bone marrow transplants for SCID, and drastically lower infant mortality in SCD through preventive measures. The IVDR-approved test provides a ready-to-use solution that integrates into existing laboratory workflows. It runs on established LightCycler systems, making it accessible for private and academic hospital laboratories across Europe.
Roche's collaborator MediLink has announced positive phase III results for tambotatug pelitecan (Tam-Peli) in Chinese patients with relapsed small-cell lung cancer. The TAISHAN-302 trial showed Tam-Peli reduced the risk of death by 54% compared to topotecan, with median overall survival of 13.3 versus 9.4 months. The antibody-drug conjugate also demonstrated superior progression-free survival (7.4 versus 2.8 months) and objective response rates (59.1% versus 9.7%). China's National Medical Products Administration has accepted the New Drug Application for filing. Roche is developing and commercialising Tam-Peli outside mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, with plans to rapidly initiate global trials. The therapy has received Breakthrough Therapy Designations from both the US FDA and China CDE for relapsed small-cell lung cancer.
Tempus AI has raised $600 million in Series C funding to scale its machine learning platform for cancer recurrence detection through liquid biopsies. The investment was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Roche and Merck. Phase II trial data showed the AI-enhanced liquid biopsy analysis reduced false-negative results by 37% compared to conventional methods. The platform uses deep learning algorithms trained on over 12,000 genomic profiles to identify circulating tumour DNA fragments shed by residual cancer cells. A 2025 Nature Medicine study reported the system achieved 92% specificity in detecting minimal residual disease across breast, lung, and colorectal cancers. According to SEC filings, 45% of funds will support FDA pre-market approval trials, whilst 30% will fund global expansion into EU and APAC markets.