Director, TechLab Portfolio & Governance Leader

Job Description

The Portfolio and Governance Lead will provide support to the strategic direction of our Tech R&D projects within our company's animal health division. This role involves overseeing a diverse project portfolio that generates revenue in the hundreds million while ensuring alignment with organizational strategics priorities. The role will assist and participate in the decision-making processes related to research and development investments, actively participating in strategic meetings to prioritize initiatives and implement effective governance practices.

This position requires a deep understanding of our structure and opportunities and the ability to navigate industry uncertainties, identifying opportunities for information gathering for better decision making, and standardizing hypotheses, and will play a critical role in providing insights that influence the allocation of R&D funding and support the successful launch of products, thereby driving the overall success of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversight of project development governance. 

• Manage Executive Steering Committee meetings, planning sessions etc. 

• Overall responsibility to define tracking and monitoring methods over project milestones. 

• Consolidating bottom up projects reporting into high level dashboards

• Responsible for formulating the projects / portfolio high level plan and roadmap, in consultation with management and other parties concerned 

• Defining portfolio visibility and communication methods 

• Set KPI mechanism, define KPI’s, cascade Top Down and consolidate Bottom Up 

• Overall responsibility to set and drive PM knowledgebase, documentation and training 

• Coordinate and manage the implementation of required supporting technologies / applications / managing systems for high-level systems.

• Continuous improvement of methods and organization  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or related areas of study

• 7+ years of experience in Project/Portfolio management in tech related industry and/or job field.

• Experience managing project/portfolio on a global scale.

• Working knowledge of several project management methodologies including waterfall and agile that function on a variety of internal / external projects

• Experience in system, changes, processes implementation

• Experience in establish and foundation of infrastructure and methods in large scale organizations

• Ability to motivate and influence people who are not directly managed

• Communication and interpersonal skills

• Portfolio Management Expertise & Risk Management Analytics

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with English fluency

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