Program Director, Strategic Growth & Commercial Integration

Genesee Scientific Corporation • Poway, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Program Director to lead Genesee's internal execution of a high-priority strategic program. The initiative will materially expand Genesee's portfolio and spans commercial launch, private-label conversion, pricing, inventory, product data and systems readiness, customer service, marketing, sales enablement, and channel growth.

Reporting to the CEO and fully dedicated to this initiative, the Program Director will own Genesee's integrated plan and value-realization cadence, coordinate internal workstream leaders, identify resource needs, resolve obstacles, and maintain launch readiness. This person will serve as Genesee's primary interface with the external strategic partner's program management team, aligning dependencies, inputs, decisions, and joint working sessions while the partner leads its own workstreams and joint-session logistics. This is a hands-on operating role requiring sound business judgment and direct engagement in execution details.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, supply chain, engineering, life sciences, or a related field
• 8+ years of progressive experience, including direct leadership of a complex, enterprise-wide commercial or operational program and the judgment to move between executive decisions and execution details
• Demonstrated ownership of a material product launch, supplier enablement or integration, customer or product conversion, channel expansion, or comparable initiative from planning through stabilization
• Experience managing a financial business case and using revenue, margin, savings, working-capital, customer-retention, and operating metrics to guide decisions
• Proven ability to influence executives, functional leaders, and external partners; resolve conflicting priorities; and drive accountability without direct reporting authority
• Experience working across Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, and Customer Service in a product-oriented B2B environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience in life science tools, laboratory products, medical products, industrial distribution, or another complex B2B distribution environment with large SKU portfolios and related systems requirements
• Operating, transformation-consulting, integration-management, corporate-strategy, or private-equity portfolio-operations experience, preferably in a growth-stage or lower-middle-market company with lean functional teams
• PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or comparable training is beneficial but is not a substitute for demonstrated operating leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own Genesee's integrated program plan across internal workstreams, including milestones, critical path, dependencies, decision rights, launch-readiness gates, and accountable owners
• Coordinate Genesee workstream leaders across Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Sales Operations, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Operations, Finance, IT, Customer Service, and other functions
• Establish program governance, meeting cadences, decision forums, risk reviews, and concise executive reporting; maintain an integrated risk, issue, action, and decision log
• Identify the capacity, skills, hiring, and external support required for execution; recommend resource allocations and escalate gaps that could constrain results
• Drive Genesee's readiness for the branded-product launch and private-label conversion across product onboarding, pricing, contracts, rebates, product data, systems, inventory, warehouse capacity, sales enablement, marketing, and customer communications
• Coordinate customer and channel-growth initiatives with Sales and Marketing, including target-account prioritization, pipeline visibility, launch sequencing, customer-retention messaging, and barrier removal
• Own the program's financial scorecard and maintain visibility into revenue, gross margin, cost savings, customer retention, working capital, implementation costs, and agreed value-creation milestones
• Work with functional leaders to resolve execution problems, recommend decisions, and adjust plans as commercial results, customer feedback, or operating conditions change
• Serve as Genesee's primary program interface with the external strategic partner's program manager, aligning timelines, dependencies, required inputs, decisions, and Genesee readiness for joint sessions
• Coordinate Genesee's participation in joint working sessions while the external partner manages session logistics and leads its own functional workstreams
• Facilitate productive internal meetings and executive steering updates with clear decisions, actions, owners, deadlines, financial implications, and recovery plans
• Influence executives and workstream leaders without relying on direct authority, maintaining accountability for commitments and outcomes

Benefits

• Training and professional growth initiatives, including comprehensive onboarding programs for new team members
• Competitive compensation packages
• 401 (k) retirement savings plans
• Medical, dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability and employee assistance programs
• Paid time off including vacation, sick and 12 holidays

What This Job Offers

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