Senior Director, R&D PMO – Innovation Excellence

🕒 August 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Neogen Corporation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🌾 Agriculture

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Biotechnology • Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Neogen Corporation is a biotechnology company that offers a comprehensive range of solutions and services aimed at ensuring food safety throughout the food chain. They cater specifically to the food processing, animal protein, and agriculture industries, helping to protect the global food supply while promoting efficient production practices. In addition to their primary focus on food safety, Neogen also serves the companion and performance animal sectors, as well as engaging in life sciences and toxicology fields.

📋 Description

• Lead and continuously improve Neogen's R&D PMO operating model, including portfolio governance, decision rights, reporting cadences, escalation paths, standard work, and program management capabilities • Create and maintain a reliable enterprise view of the strategic portfolio, including initiative ownership, outcomes, milestones, dependencies, risks, capacity needs, investments, and value realization • Partner with executive and cross-functional leaders to translate strategy into an executable portfolio • Facilitate prioritization, stage-gate, investment, continuation, acceleration, and risk-management decisions • Embed repeatable needs-driven innovation practices across R&D and product-development work, including customer observation, problem definition, need screening, concept development, prototyping, evidence planning, and implementation readiness • Provide executive oversight for complex, high-risk, and cross-enterprise programs • Align R&D, Product Management, Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, IT/Digital, Legal, and other functions around shared outcomes • Build a high-performing PMO and innovation excellence team through talent development, coaching, communities of practice, performance management, and reusable tools, playbooks, and learning processes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, operations, or a related discipline • Advanced degree, MBA, master's degree, or doctorate preferred • Typically 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in portfolio management, program management, product development, innovation, operations, transformation, or related fields • 7+ years leading complex cross-functional programs and/or a PMO • Demonstrated success building, transforming, or leading an enterprise or business-unit PMO and improving portfolio decisions, delivery performance, resource productivity, and benefits realization • Deep practitioner experience with needs-driven innovation methods, including observation, need finding, need screening, concept development, prototyping, and implementation planning • Formal Biodesign training preferred • Strong knowledge of portfolio management, stage-gate governance, integrated planning, capacity and resource management, risk management, business-case analysis, and executive-level reporting • PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or comparable certifications preferred • Experience in regulated product environments and guiding products, diagnostics, instruments, consumables, software/digital solutions, services, or integrated platforms through development and commercialization • Experience in food safety, animal safety, life sciences, diagnostics, medical technology, laboratory workflows, industrial biotechnology, or related industries preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• A strategic leadership opportunity to shape Neogen's enterprise approach to innovation, portfolio management, and program execution • The ability to influence high-impact initiatives that support customer value, sustainable growth, operational readiness, quality, and long-term business performance • Collaboration with senior leaders and global cross-functional teams in a complex, purpose-driven, regulated environment • The opportunity to build enduring organizational capabilities through practical PMO disciplines, innovation methods, and leadership development • A standard benefits package