Danaher
Vice President, Portfolio Management
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Exec
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About the role
- Executive leadership experience managing interrelated projects, programs, and global teams in a complex matrix environment.
- Experience in a highly regulated industry, with demonstrated responsibility for new product development and commercialization; diagnostics or molecular diagnostics experience is strongly relevant.
- Demonstrated success driving innovation-based growth for a business of at least $1 billion.
Responsibilities
- Own executive portfolio governance for new product development and rationalized roadmaps across assays, reagents, instrument systems, and software, aligning priorities to market, customer, patient, and business needs.
- Drive strategic recommendations and portfolio-level action plans that align the assay portfolio, Rationalized Roadmap, Master Project List, and Project Priority List with business expectations.
- Own cross-functional coordination of budgeting, resourcing, and prioritization across new product development, market expansion, and market protection programs.
- Develop and deploy portfolio and program management metrics and key performance indicators for safety, quality, delivery, and productivity, using the Danaher Business System and other best-practice methodologies.
- We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
- The Vice President, Portfolio Management leads, inspires, and develops Cepheid's global Portfolio and Program Management Office within the Global R&D organization.
Nice to have
- The molecular diagnostics industry, including regulated assay, reagent, instrument system, or software product development.
- Mergers and acquisitions due diligence or integration of companies or technologies within a large, matrixed business.
- Swedish language proficiency.
- It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this role is $280,000 to $330,000.
- This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.
- This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
- No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.
Benefits
- At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate molecular diagnostic systems and tests.
- Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the world's most complex health challenges.
Company info
- At Cepheid, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives and we are united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
- This position reports to the Senior Vice President, Research & Development and is part of the Global R&D organization.
Equal opportunity
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