Associate Director – Innovation

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🌐 Brazil, Mexico – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Shape and advance an assigned innovation landscape or portfolio segment • Translate strategic priorities into discovery themes, opportunity spaces, and learning objectives • Own discovery and validation activities, ensuring coherence, focus, and alignment with business priorities • Identify, frame, prioritize, and validate potential opportunities • Guide portfolio trade-off decisions and recommend whether to explore, validate, pause, pivot, or stop opportunities • Identify patterns, unmet needs, emerging opportunities, risks, and interdependencies across focus areas • Maintain opportunity framing and value propositions from exploration through concept validation • Ensure opportunities have clear problem statements, robust assumptions, relevant evidence, and defined value propositions • Oversee discovery, 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 • Represent the team in leadership forums and escalate decisions, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints • Integrate cross-functional and cross-market perspectives into innovation decisions • 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, opportunity framing, 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 • Advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred • 8–10 years’ experience in innovation, strategy, discovery, research, or consulting roles within a complex global organization, or comparable experience • 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 • May require as-needed travel (0–20%) domestically and internationally • Must be legally authorized to work in your country of residence without sponsorship • Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Standard Monday–Friday work schedule • As-needed domestic and international travel (0–20%) • Relocation assistance is NOT provided