Field Operations Director
Genentech · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $148k–$275k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Pharma & life sciences
- Posted
- 4 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level production role at Genentech (pharma & life sciences) in Los Angeles, CA. Develop a deep understanding of the team's business priorities, customers, opportunities, challenges, and performance.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Capacity planning
- Base pay
- $148k–$275k
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $130k–$179k. This one lists $148k–$275k.
Median of the low and high ends of 63 live postings that list pay, out of 145 production engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
California plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 144 other live production postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 46% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 6+)
Typical $119k–$170k, from 49 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 6+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- New product launch 37%
- Lean 29%
- Root cause 28%
- Team leadership 26%
- Automation 24%
- Python 20%
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This plant: Genentech in Los Angeles
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- Launch Operations Manager · Production · Manager
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- Head of CE Internal Operations & Services · Production · Director+
- Head of CE Enterprise Operations · Production · Director+
Full description from GenentechAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Position summary
The Field Operations Director serves as the trusted operations partner to an assigned Regional VP or National Team VP and their leadership team, helping translate business priorities into clear plans, coordinated execution, and effective connection to the broader CE Operations and enterprise support network. The Director owns the operating rhythm and priority agenda for the assigned leadership team and provides a single point of connectivity between Field Leadership and the broader operational ecosystem.
Required qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree required
- ✓Significant pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consulting, commercial, field operations, strategic, and/or analytical experience (8+ years preferred)
- ✓Demonstrated experience partnering with senior business or field leaders
- ✓Experience translating strategy into operational plans and driving execution
- ✓Strong project/program management and cross-functional leadership capabilities
- ✓Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a complex matrixed organizat
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The Position
From the beginning, Genentech has been a team of highly dedicated, passionate individuals. We are a place where people are united around a single purpose and an ambitious vision. Together, we aspire to deliver ever better health outcomes for patients while lowering overall healthcare costs. Our goal is to compel the customer to act on behalf of their patients while showing great commitment to the rare disease community, whose support is key. Utilizing innovative methods to identify patients who may benefit from treatment, we must take a highly strategic approach to patient access while assisting patients and their caregivers to navigate the healthcare system.
Strategic Partnership with Field Leadership
- •Serve as the primary Operations partner to an assigned Regional VP or National Team VP and their leadership team.
- •Develop a deep understanding of the team's business priorities, customers, opportunities, challenges, and performance.
- •Translate enterprise and CE priorities into clear implications and action plans for the assigned Region or National Team.
- •Provide strategic and operational counsel to leadership and proactively identify issues requiring attention, decisions, or escalation.
- •Help leadership prioritize competing needs and maintain focus on the highest-impact business opportunities.
Operating Rhythm & Business Planning
- •Own the operating rhythm and priority agenda for the assigned leadership team.
- •Lead development and coordination of annual, quarterly, and other operating plans.
- •Translate priorities into clear roadmaps with owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of progress.
- •Coordinate leadership agendas, decision materials, action tracking, and follow-through.
- •Support Regional or National Team input into ABP, resource planning, RBO, and other CE and enterprise planning processes.
Operational Integration & Execution
- •Serve as a front door for operational requests from the assigned leadership team and route needs to the appropriate CE Operations or enterprise partner.
- •Connect Field Leadership and HEDs to the broader support network without requiring them to independently navigate multiple teams.
- •Coordinate across Enterprise Operations, RBO, Squad Field Partners, ABP, DDA, L&SD, and other functions to enable execution.
- •Anticipate execution barriers, dependencies, and operational risks and mobilize partners to resolve them.
- •Ensure appropriate communication and coordination between enterprise initiatives and Regional/National execution.
Insights & Decision Support
- •Synthesize field insights, performance signals, customer information, and emerging business needs into clear leadership implications.
- •Develop business reviews and decision materials that enable productive leadership conversations.
- •Identify patterns and recurring needs that may have implications beyond the assigned Region or National Team.
- •Surface cross-field opportunities, risks, and common needs to the Head of CE Field Operations so they can be addressed across the organization where appropriate.
- •Provide recommendations related to priorities, resources, capacity, and operational tradeoffs.
Resource & Capacity Planning
- •Maintain an integrated understanding of the assigned team's resource and capacity requirements.
- •Support Regional or National Team roster, resource, and capacity planning.
- •Identify capacity constraints and emerging needs and develop recommendations in partnership with Field Leadership.
- •Connect local resource needs to broader CE and enterprise planning processes.
Key deliverables
- •Annual and quarterly operating plans
- •Regional or National Team priority roadmap
- •Leadership agendas, decision materials, and action logs
- •Business reviews and synthesized field insights
- •RBO, ABP, and enterprise planning inputs
- •Resource, roster, and capacity plans
- •Consolidated requests, risks, and capacity recommendations
- •Clear escalation of cross-field opportunities and common operational needs
Mindset & capabilities
- •Trusted partner who builds credibility with senior Field Leaders
- •Strategic thinker with strong operational discipline
- •Able to translate ambiguity and complexity into clear plans and actions
- •Strong business acumen and understanding of field execution
- •Highly effective at influencing without formal authority
- •Skilled at connecting people, priorities, and resources across organizational boundaries
- •Strong analytical and synthesis capabilities
- •Proactive and anticipatory rather than reactive
- •Comfortable navigating a complex, matrixed environment
- •Strong judgment and ability to distinguish between issues that should be solved locally and those requiring enterprise solutions
- •Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on business impact
- •Growth mindset and commitment to continuous improvement
