Director - Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, and Process Excellence

Entegris • Aurora, IL

13d • $185,000 - $245,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Entegris is seeking a Director, Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, Process Excellence, to join our MS Business Operations team. The preferred location for this position will be onsite at a Materials Solutions divisional hub in one of the following locations : Aurora, IL; Burnet, TX; Danbury, CT; Taiwan. Remote with travel will be considered for the right candidate.
As the Director of Innovation Portfolio Strategy & Process Excellence, you will serve as a strategic leader focused on evaluating the effectiveness of innovation investments across the division. Partnering closely with R&D, product development, and business unit leaders, you will develop and apply robust models to assess the ROI, risk, and long-term value of initiatives. Your core mission is to ensure that the division is investing its dollars most effectively by providing data-driven insights that guide resource allocation, portfolio prioritization, and strategic decision-making.
You will lead division‑level Innovation portfolio management by setting strategic direction, establishing a scalable and rigorous management process, and ensuring clear communication, strong organizational discipline, and effective decision‑making across the portfolio. You will lead efforts that enable profitable growth for the division by aligning industry and customer roadmaps to business strategy and opportunities. From there, you will monitor the ongoing health of the portfolio to ensure the division is on target to meet our long-term goals. This role requires a unique blend of corporate insight, business and financial acumen, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure efforts are aligned with business growth and value creation.
You will be responsible for refining our development process to make certain it is effective and efficient for all not only our development team, but all of our team members across the organization. Through strong cross-functional collaboration and change management, this role will lead the rollout of development process improvements to drive effective adoption and meaningful organizational value.
This role answers the question: As a division, are we investing our innovation dollars most effectively? As a division, are we focused on the right areas for strategic growth where we can have long term competitive differentiation? How can we develop products that have long term commercial strength?

Requirements

• A Strategic Thinker- Someone who can develop and execute a strategy from start to finish
• A Learning Mindset - Someone who is skilled or developing skills in AI tools (Copilot, Agent development) that improve efficiency
• A Leader - Ability to establish clear direction and set priorities. A strong listener with the ability to energize others. An effective communicator with capability to influence across functional and regional areas. Someone who is humble, results-oriented, and eager to learn and contribute
• A Process Expert with expert-level knowledge of stage gate NPI processes and the ability to conduct cross functional gate reviews
• A Project Manager- Strong project management skills, including but not limited to, risk assessment and mitigation, conflict management, meeting management, task management, stakeholder management & project closure
• Strong Financial and Business Financial acumen – Understanding of P&L, Risk assessment, decision making, strategic/systems mindset, experience with return on investment models
• Customer Focus - Strong customer orientation and understanding of the application, passion for building relationships, effective at influencing the customer with experience of direct customer communication
• Experience managing/developing new product development programs for semiconductor fabrication consumables is required
• Technical proficiency in Copilot, Excel and PowerPoint ; SAP BPC and/or OneStream a plus; Proficient, to advanced knowledge of PowerBI is a plus; or managing dashboard development/automation
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives or projects with cross-functional team members; Comfortable dealing with a high degree of ambiguity and working through issues.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related degree/discipline is required; advanced degree preferred; industry proven Financial acumen
• Minimum 10 years’ experience

Nice To Haves

• advanced degree preferred
• industry proven Financial acumen
• SAP BPC and/or OneStream a plus
• Proficient, to advanced knowledge of PowerBI is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing development of the Innovation stage gate process at the divisional level, ensuring it is efficient and effective
• Lead change management efforts and facilitate necessary training of the Innovation process(es).
• Lead Division-level portfolio management that ties together industry and customer roadmaps with business strategy.
• Develop and evaluate models (cost of ownership, business cases, forecasts, etc) to make strategic recommendations on growth initiatives.
• Build strong, collaborative working relationships with key functional partners to ensure appropriate prioritization, support, and resources to successfully execute business strategy.
• Define sustainable key performance indicators (KPIs) to track success in all areas, such as portfolio management and profit center reviews.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of functional areas such as R&D, Engineering, Finance, Fab Technologies, Manufacturing, Legal and Supply Chain to accomplish business objectives.

Benefits

• Generous 401(K) plan with an impressive employer match
• Excellent health, dental and vision insurance packages to fit your needs
• Flexible work schedule and 11 paid holidays a year
• Paid time off (PTO) policy that empowers you to take the time you need to recharge
• Education assistance to support your learning journey

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director