Director, Innovation

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🌐 Mexico, Brazil – Remote

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👔 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

• Drive innovation across a significant landscape, concentration area, or horizontal capability • Translate strategic priorities into clear direction, focus, and measurable outcomes • Own and oversee a portfolio of innovation opportunities • Lead identification, shaping, prioritisation, and progression of opportunities • Maintain continuity of value propositions from early exploration through validation, transition, and adoption • Partner with business, digital, data, technology, and delivery leaders to align priorities and support implementation • Act as the primary senior interface between innovation and downstream execution teams • Guide portfolio prioritisation and investment trade-offs • Ensure opportunities are supported by robust evidence, clear assumptions, and well-defined value propositions • Contribute to governance, portfolio reviews, and investment decision-making • Shape innovation direction from people, process, and technology perspectives • Support long-term strategic planning and future innovation priorities • Identify patterns, dependencies, risks, and emerging opportunities • Oversee development and communication of the enterprise innovation story • Partner with commercial, strategy, and communications teams to position innovation capabilities and strategic initiatives • Represent the organization internally and externally in strategic discussions, industry engagement, client interactions, and thought leadership activities • Integrate internal and external perspectives to shape portfolio choices and business outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or a related field • 10+ years’ experience leading innovation, transformation, strategy, product discovery, or technology-enabled business initiatives • Experience leading large-scale or enterprise-level portfolios, strategic initiatives, or cross-functional innovation programs • Demonstrated success shaping and progressing high-impact innovation opportunities through structured discovery, validation, and transition activities • Experience influencing senior and executive stakeholders within matrixed organizations • Strong leadership experience across cross-functional business, digital, data, and technology environments • Experience representing innovation initiatives in senior governance forums, strategic planning discussions, or external industry settings • Advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred • Strong strategic leadership and innovation management capabilities • Deep understanding of innovation, experimentation, and evidence-based investment approaches • Ability to shape and prioritise high-value innovation opportunities in ambiguous and evolving environments • Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across senior business and technology leadership • Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how innovation supports growth, differentiation, and competitive positioning • Strong communication and storytelling capabilities • Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with practical portfolio prioritisation and progression • Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities • Understanding of emerging technologies, digital transformation, and innovation trends relevant to clinical research and healthcare • Excellent written and verbal communication skills across global and cross-functional teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement