Natera
Associate Director, Portfolio Operations and Insights
US Remote · Director
Sponsorship not specified$156k-$200kDetected 1 day ago
Data VisualizationProject ManagementFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisSAPFP&AMolecular BiologyLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationTime ManagementVariance Analysis
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About the role
- The Associate Director of R&D Portfolio Operations & Insights will drive 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 - including robust financial modeling, budget governance, and investment performance tracking.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement standardized PMO processes, tools, and governance frameworks across R&D.
- 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.
- Define and maintain a standardized process for project budget creation, baseline-setting, and adjustment ensuring consistency in how budgets are structured and tracked across the portfolio
- Implement mechanisms to measure and report budget adherence at the project level, including variance analysis, earned value metrics, and escalation thresholds for material deviations
- Partners with Finance to align on capitalization and expense treatment, ensure accurate project cost coding and support close and accrual processes
- Support business case development by providing standardized templates NPV/ IRR modeling, and scenario analysis
- Own and evolve the R&D portfolio management database, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and usability.
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Requirements
- Experience as FP&A or Finance Manager supporting Engineering or Product organizations desirable.
- Proficiency in financial modeling, budget management, and portfolio financial analysis
- experience with NPV, cost-to-market, and forecast accuracy methodologies.
- 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.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and build productive relationships.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Biology or equivalent.
- MS or PhD in Biological Sciences preferred.
- Certification or formal training in Program or Project Management and experience using resource management tools is a big plus.
- Comfort working with large datasets and financial systems
- experience with portfolio management platforms (e.g., Planisware, Smartsheet, Oracle, SAP) and BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
Skills
- 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 communication within the project teams as well as with diverse stakeholders, including top level management.
- Annual performance incentive bonus
- Long-term equity awards
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- Additional wellness and work-life benefits
Compensation
- $155,700 - $200,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
- Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits.
- Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more.
- Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.
Company info
- Working alongside the elite of the industry, you'll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
- We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Equal opportunity
- Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
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