Senior Director, R&D PMO, Innovation Excellence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee and enhance Neogen's R&D PMO operating model, which includes portfolio governance, decision-making rights, reporting schedules, escalation pathways, standardized processes, and program management capabilities.

• Develop and sustain a comprehensive view of the strategic portfolio, encompassing initiative ownership, outcomes, milestones, dependencies, risks, capacity requirements, investments, and value realization.

• Collaborate with executive and cross-functional leaders to convert strategy into an actionable portfolio.

• Facilitate decisions regarding prioritization, stage-gate processes, investment, continuation, acceleration, and risk management.

• Integrate needs-driven innovation practices throughout R&D and product development efforts.

• Provide executive oversight for intricate, high-risk, and cross-enterprise programs.

• Align R&D, Product Management, Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, IT/Digital, Legal, and other departments around common outcomes.

• Cultivate a high-performing PMO and innovation excellence team through talent development, coaching, communities of practice, performance management, reusable tools, playbooks, and educational processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, operations, or a related field.

• Advanced degree such as an MBA, master's, or doctorate is preferred.

• Typically requires 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in portfolio management, program management, product development, innovation, operations, transformation, or related domains.

• At least 7 years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs and/or a PMO.

• Proven track record of building, transforming, or leading an enterprise or business-unit PMO.

• Experience in enhancing portfolio decisions, delivery performance, resource productivity, and benefits realization.

• Extensive practical experience with needs-driven innovation methodologies, including observation, need finding, need screening, concept development, prototyping, and implementation planning.

• Formal Biodesign training is preferred.

• Strong understanding of portfolio management, stage-gate governance, integrated planning, capacity and resource management, risk management, business-case analysis, and executive-level reporting.

• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or similar certifications are preferred.

• Experience in regulated product environments and guiding products, diagnostics, instruments, consumables, software/digital solutions, services, or integrated platforms through development and commercialization.

• Experience in food safety, animal safety, life sciences, diagnostics, medical technology, laboratory workflows, industrial biotechnology, or related industries is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• A standard benefits package.

• A strategic leadership opportunity to influence Neogen's enterprise approach to innovation, portfolio management, and program execution.

• The chance to impact high-stakes initiatives that enhance customer value, promote sustainable growth, ensure operational readiness, and improve quality and long-term business performance.

• Collaboration with senior leaders and global cross-functional teams.

• An opportunity to establish lasting organizational capabilities through PMO disciplines, innovation methods, and leadership development.