Senior Director, Strategic Portfolio Management

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Intuitive is the leader in robotic assisted surgery and robotic assisted bronchoscopy, designing and manufacturing complex systems for use with da Vinci and ION procedures. These systems are tightly integrated with digital capabilities, which enhance clinical outcomes for patients, drive hospital efficiency and optimize costs to serve.

With four main business units, Intuitive is highly customer focused, delivering a varied range of new technologies, systems and instruments / accessories into the market on a regular basis. Supporting this, the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) sits independently of the Business Units and other functions, providing specialist project, program and portfolio management expertise for the successful delivery of these New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI) projects.

The PMO is now creating a new Strategic Portfolio Management organization with a Senior Director of Strategic Portfolio Management to lead it, responsible for the analysis and optimization of the portfolio of NPDI projects, at both the Business Unit and Enterprise levels, and for creating the right conditions for governance and decision making. As Intuitive’s innovation portfolio has grown significantly, there is an opportunity to formalize portfolio management as a discipline to ensure that we maximize return on investment and optimize resource utilization across the enterprise. 

Essential Job Duties

General:

• The Senior Director of Strategic Portfolio Management will have the opportunity to stand up this new organization, providing clear vision, leadership, and experience to establish this new capability
• Creates an environment in which deep strategic analysis and clarity of thought is valued, along with the desire to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of our portfolios, critical new product delivery processes and supporting systems.
• Attracts and retains the best talent to create high performing teams, building engagement and the desire to excel and deliver results, often against demanding timelines.

Portfolio Management:

• Owns the standard approach for managing the enterprise and business unit’s portfolio along with the metrics and analytics supporting executive portfolio decisions and project execution.
• Builds strong working relationships with the peer group of Senior Directors in the PMO, BU leadership and Commercial / Executive leaders across the enterprise. Implements portfolio management best practices, analysis and other decision support tools, to achieve long term business objectives.
• Leads the enterprise portfolio management process, aligned with the annual operating plan, driving bi-annual reviews to drive priorities, investments, resource utilization, and necessary trade-offs.

Strategic Analysis:

• Leads small team of Strategic Analysts to provide financial analysis, value creation, risk analysis, and resource modelling, creating insights to be used by the Business Units, Commercial Leadership team and at an enterprise level.
• Works closely with other functions like Finance and Product Management to understand the strategy, key issues and to identify the right insights that will guide good decision making.
• Partners with Corporate Strategy and Finance