Associate Vice President, Enterprise Product Development

Job Description

The Associate Vice President, Enterprise Product Development will lead the transformation and optimization of the R&D operating model across Agilent’s business group. This role is responsible for driving engineering excellence, integrating modern development tools and digital capabilities, establishing Centers of Excellence (CoEs), and enabling high-performance, scalable R&D processes. The AVP will act as a strategic partner and operational leader, ensuring that product lifecycle practices, engineering methodologies, and development tools are unified, efficient, and future-ready.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of product development across the enterprise, enabling world-class engineering capabilities and innovation velocity. You will play a pivotal role in building a unified, modern, high-performance R&D ecosystem that accelerates product development and scales the company’s technology advantage.

Key Responsibilities

Product Lifecycle Optimization

• Accelerate the Product Lifecycle (PLC) across the organization by driving a single enterprise-wide best-practice system with standardized frameworks and governance.
• Lead training, coaching, and change management to ensure adoption across all business groups.
• Use KPIs and analytics to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
   

Engineering for Excellence

• Define and maintain enterprise-level engineering standards, tools, test methods, and design frameworks.
• Lead the Engineering Leadership Forum to drive alignment and best-practice sharing.
• Partner with product and technology leaders to strengthen technical rigor and innovation culture.
   

Digital Tool Chain Management

• Manage and modernize the end-to-end digital development tool chain and ensure enterprise interoperability.
• Evaluate, deploy, and integrate common tools that enhance productivity and process efficiency.
• Provide training and best-practice guidance to ensure consistent, effective tool usage.
   

Shared Capability Development

• Build and lead Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide shared engineering capabilities and support modular, reusable design.
• Establish common design hubs to enable scalable, high-quality engineering support.
• Promote reuse, modularity, and platform consistency across business groups.
   

R&D Partnerships & Ecosystem Management

• Lead operational partnerships with external design firms and internal development collaborators.
• Define engagement models and governance for strategic engineering and design partners.
• Ensure seamless integration of partner deliverables into PLC processes and R&D workflows.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree (Engineering or related technical field preferred), or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of increasing managerial responsibility, including leadership of directors, managers, and senior technical contributors.
• Broad knowledge of R&D operations, engineering practices, product development processes, and digital tool ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience integrating and leading multiple complex functions such as engineering, systems development, PLC management, tooling, or shared service organizations.
• Proven ability to develop and oversee program, organizational, and transformational strategies.
• Strong track record of implementing enterprise-scale process frameworks, engineering standards, or development toolchains.
• Experience building organizational capability through coaching, training, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration, influencing senior leaders, and driving alignment across diverse business groups.
• Experience managing external partnerships and integrating third-party development resources into internal processes.
   

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and systems-level problem solving
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership presence
• Ability to drive change in a distributed,