Associate Director – Innovation

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🌐 Mexico, Brazil – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🏥 Healthcare

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with a stated mission to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The company provides a broad portfolio of laboratory instruments, analytical technologies, diagnostics, consumables, software and services that support life‑sciences research, analytical testing, clinical diagnostics and the development and manufacture of therapies. Its operations and offerings (as described on its site and in its news) include advanced imaging and electron microscopes, chromatography and mass‑spectrometry systems, genetic and clinical testing, lab automation and AI tools, bioprocessing and contract development/manufacturing services (brands cited include Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Gibco, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD). Thermo Fisher reports annual revenue over $45 billion and emphasizes corporate social responsibility, environmental and community programs alongside its scientific products and services.

📋 Description

• Shape and advance an assigned innovation landscape or focus area • Translate strategic priorities into discovery themes, opportunity spaces, and learning objectives • Own and prioritize a portfolio of discovery and validation activities • Lead identification, framing, prioritization, experimentation, and validation of potential opportunities • Guide portfolio trade-offs and recommend whether opportunities should be explored, validated, paused, pivoted, or stopped • Maintain opportunity framing and value propositions from exploration through concept validation • Oversee discovery quality, opportunity shaping, experimentation, concept testing, and evidence synthesis • Define validation outcomes and decision criteria • Partner with business, digital, data, science, technology, and subject-matter stakeholders • Contribute to governance and portfolio reviews and represent the team in leadership forums • Escalate decisions, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints • Lead, develop, and coach team members • Set direction across multiple opportunities and team members • Allocate resources and leadership attention across the portfolio • Build team capability in discovery methods, experimentation, evidence quality, stakeholder management, and decision discipline • Support succession, development, and workforce planning

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, technology, engineering, or a related field • 8–10 years of comparable experience leading innovation, strategy, discovery, research, or consulting roles within a complex global organization • Experience owning and prioritizing a portfolio of discovery, experimentation, or concept-validation activities • Ability to translate strategic priorities into focused opportunity spaces, learning agendas, and evidence-based recommendations • Experience leading teams and developing capability across multiple levels • Strong analytical, strategic, and systems-thinking capabilities • Executive-level stakeholder engagement, influencing, and decision-support skills • Experience progressing opportunities from early exploration through structured concept validation and decision readiness • Appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience may be considered as an equivalency • Clinical research or pharmaceutical industry experience preferred • Familiarity with experimentation, hypothesis-driven innovation, customer or user research, concept testing, and evidence-based portfolio decisions • Experience working across multiple markets, business units, or geographies • Awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, evolving customer needs, and new business models • Ability to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people • Ability to work upright and stationary for typical working hours • Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology proficiently • Ability to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities • Must be legally authorized to work in the country of residence without sponsorship • Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • As-needed domestic and international travel (0–20%) • Relocation assistance is not provided

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