Senior Director, Global Portfolio Management

Nova Biomedical Corporation • Waltham, MA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Nova Biomedical is seeking a Senior Director, Global Portfolio Management – Biopharma to lead the global product management organization for the Biopharma business. This senior strategic leadership role is responsible for defining and executing the global portfolio strategy across a broad portfolio of life science tools and workflow solutions used in cell line development, bioprocessing, osmometry, liquid handling verification, and emerging adjacent technologies. This leader will own the long-range portfolio vision, multi-year product roadmap, innovation priorities, lifecycle management strategy, and portfolio investment recommendations for the Biopharma business. The ideal candidate is a commercially minded, technically credible product leader with strong life sciences or bioprocessing market experience, deep product management discipline, strong commercial acumen, and the leadership presence to align global teams around a common portfolio strategy.

Requirements

• 12–15+ years of progressive experience in product management, portfolio management, strategic marketing, commercial leadership, or general management in life sciences tools, bioprocessing, analytical instrumentation, diagnostics, biotechnology, or adjacent scientific technology markets.
• Demonstrated experience leading product managers, portfolio leaders, or cross-functional product teams.
• Proven ownership of a complex global product portfolio with accountability for strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, pricing, launch, and commercial outcomes.
• Strong understanding of life science customer workflows and the ability to translate customer needs into differentiated product strategy.
• Experience working closely with R&D, Commercial, Marketing, Applications, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Finance teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build business cases, evaluate investment tradeoffs, and connect product strategy to revenue, margin, and market share outcomes.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical and business topics clearly to senior leadership.
• Experience operating in a global, matrixed organization with regional commercial teams and distributed stakeholders.
• Strong customer orientation with experience engaging strategic accounts, key opinion leaders, and technical decision makers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in bioprocessing, biologics manufacturing, cell line development, process analytics, upstream bioprocessing, formulation, quality control, or cell and gene therapy workflows preferred.
• Experience with instrument, consumable, and software portfolios preferred.
• Experience building workflow or platform strategies across multiple product lines preferred.
• Experience with global product launches and stage-gate product development preferred.
• Experience with portfolio rationalization, lifecycle management, and pricing strategy preferred.
• Experience supporting M&A diligence, partnership evaluation, OEM relationships, or acquisition integration preferred.
• Advanced degree in life sciences, engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, or related scientific field preferred; MBA or equivalent business experience strongly valued.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global Biopharma portfolio strategy across existing and emerging platforms.
• Build and maintain a 3–5 year portfolio roadmap aligned to customer workflow needs, market growth opportunities, competitive positioning, and company strategy.
• Translate market dynamics, customer insights, scientific trends, and commercial data into clear portfolio priorities.
• Develop portfolio-level investment recommendations, including business cases, market sizing, financial models, and strategic tradeoffs.
• Establish a disciplined portfolio review process that integrates revenue performance, margin, installed base opportunity, lifecycle stage, competitive position, and innovation pipeline.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of product managers and portfolio leaders.
• Establish a high-performance product management operating model with clear accountability for strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, launch readiness, pricing, and commercial performance.
• Build common product management standards, tools, dashboards, and decision frameworks across the portfolio.
• Strengthen Voice of Customer, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, and customer workflow mapping capabilities.
• Lead the evolution from product-line management to integrated workflow and platform strategy.
• Identify opportunities to connect instruments, consumables, applications, software, service, and data into differentiated workflow solutions.
• Own the portfolio innovation roadmap and ensure alignment between customer needs, product strategy, R&D priorities, and business value.
• Partner with R&D and Program Management to prioritize new product development investments and sustaining engineering efforts.
• Define product requirements, target product profiles, business cases, and launch success criteria for major development initiatives.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Applications, Service, and Regional Leaders to translate portfolio strategy into commercial execution.
• Support strategic customer engagements, executive account discussions, key opinion leader meetings, and major commercial opportunities.
• Monitor portfolio performance against revenue, margin, market share, adoption, launch, and lifecycle metrics.
• Own lifecycle management across the Biopharma portfolio, from concept through launch, scale, sustain, refresh, rationalization, and retirement.
• Drive pricing strategy in partnership with Commercial, Finance, Marketing, and Regional teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve product mix, margin, consumables attachment, service attachment, installed-base utilization, and portfolio profitability.
• Support inorganic growth strategy by identifying portfolio gaps, workflow adjacencies, acquisition targets, and partnership opportunities.
• Participate in due diligence for potential acquisitions, partnerships, OEM opportunities, and technology licensing.
• Ensure newly acquired technologies are incorporated into the broader portfolio roadmap, value proposition, commercial strategy, and lifecycle governance.

Benefits

• Flexible Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
• Competitive 401k company match
• Bonus Program
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Generous Tuition reimbursement
• Hybrid and flexible work arrangements
• Professional development, engagement and events
• Company marketplace for lunch and snacks in our Norwood, MA, Billerica, MA and Westbrook, ME offices
• Company subsidized cafeteria in our Waltham, MA office

What This Job Offers

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