Associate Director, R&D Portfolio Operations and Insights

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Associate Director, R&D Portfolio Operations & Insights

Position Summary

The Associate Director of R&D Portfolio Operations & Insights will lead the design, standardization, and continuous improvement of portfolio management processes across the R&D organization.

This role is responsible for enabling integrated planning, improving predictability, and driving portfolio transparency through scalable PMO frameworks, data infrastructure, analytics, and reporting.

This individual will serve as a strategic operations partner to R&D, Finance, and PMO Leadership, ensuring there is a single-source of truth to enable portfolio insights and decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement standardized PMO processes, tools, and governance frameworks across R&D.
Establish integrated planning processes that connect strategy, resource planning, timelines, and execution milestones.
Drive adoption of best practices for stage-gate governance, risk management, and cross-functional alignment.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational rigor, predictability, and accountability.

Develop and maintain enterprise-level portfolio planning models that enable scenario planning and trade-off analysis.
Partner with R&D, Engineering, Regulatory, Finance to align roadmap assumptions and resource forecasts.
Implement forecasting and tracking mechanisms to improve milestone predictability and delivery confidence.
Monitor portfolio performance and proactively surface risks, dependencies, and capacity constraints.

Own and evolve the R&D portfolio management database, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and usability.
Define data standards, KPIs, and portfolio health metrics.
Lead vision for automated dashboards and trending analyses to provide real-time insights to leadership.
Enable scalable reporting capabilities through tools and systems optimization.

Create portfolio views to support investment decisions, resource allocation, and strategic trade-offs.
Work with PMO portfolio leads to develop executive-ready reporting packages (monthly/quarterly) highlighting progress, risks, and trends.
Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Serve as a thought partner to PMO and R&D leadership on operational effectiveness.
Provide key inputs into cross-functional portfolio review forums and governance meetings.
Influence without authority across scientific, clinical, regulatory, and commercial product management teams.
Lead and mentor portfolio operations team members as the function scales.

Bachelor's degree in Biology or equivalent. MS or PhD in Biological Sciences preferred.
Minimum of 10 years of program management experience in biotech space and educational background in molecular biology or genetics testing.
Certification or formal training in Program or Project Management and experience using resource management tools is a big plus.

Strong knowledge of creative workflows, project management tools and processes.
Experience compiling GANTT charts and project plans.
Experience with product development.
Familiar with design control is a plus.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and build productive relationships.
Excellent communication within the project teams as well as with diverse stakeholders, including top level management.
Excellent organization and time management/multi-tasking skills (comfortable in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment, operating at both strategic and tactical levels).

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

Remote USA

$141,400-$176,800 USD

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