Senior Director, Portfolio Owner - Waters Corporation

Overview

The Senior Director, Portfolio Owner role will play a pivotal role in our strategic initiative to expand into high-growth adjacencies, with a specific focus on biologics characterization. This area is central to our mission of providing best-in-class analytical insights for a range of large molecules and novel modalities. By joining our team, you will be at the forefront of developing deep domain expertise that will solidify our position as the partner of choice for customers in biologic development and production processes. 

Why You Should Apply:

• Impactful Work:Be a key player in a new Biologics Business Unit, contributing to pioneering science and innovative solutions that address high unmet needs in the biologics market.
• Strategic Influence:Drive significant growth in a high-priority segment, directly influencing the success and direction of the business unit.
• Professional Growth:Develop and lead a high-performing team, optimize organizational structures, and build strong institutional knowledge, positioning yourself as a leader in the industry.
• Collaborative Environment:Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product portfolio, marketing, and field teams, to capture the voice of the customer and meet their needs effectively.
• Industry Leadership:Join a company that is committed to being at the forefront of the biologics market, providing you with the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and industry-leading experts.

The Lab Analytics Portfolio Owner, in the Biologics (Bio) Business Unit, will be responsible for understanding and prioritizing customer problems to solve. The successful candidate will develop the value propositions, business cases, product roadmaps, pricing and launch plans for innovative products and applications. The role scope will include the marketing, product development, portfolio management and lifecycle management of a product portfolio.   

The Portfolio Owner will execute organic and inorganic growth strategy, including identifying market opportunities and customer needs and managing the development pipeline. They will enable execution of solution development, recommendations of capital allocation, development of business cases, and coach leaders and teams to develop and deliver solutions that address unmet customer needs.   

The Portfolio Owner will be responsible for commercializing and managing solutions through the lifecycle, including product management, portfolio management, device form factors and stationary phase development.  

This leader will attract and develop world-class talent and build leaders to strengthen the succession pipeline for long-term growth. 

Responsibilities

• Innovates and develops range of products to meet market needs and anticipate future opportunities.  

• Develops the value propositions, business cases, product roadmaps, pricing and launch plans 

• Executes development, launch and life cycle management activities 

• Drives launch and commercialization activities  

• Searches for and evaluates inorganic growth opportunities related to future products / adjacencies 

• Measures and manages key business performance indicators against forecasted objectives including vitality index of new products and portfolio value. 

• Drives transformation in aligned portfolio with organizational alignment and agile development of solutions. 

• Attracts, retains, and develops high performing team. 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of growth strategy experience, such as identifying market opportunities, making investment decisions, and delivering on strategy execution 
• Ability to define and execute a product and portfolio strategy with an understanding of end-user needs 
• Strong financial acumen and experience in managing a P&L
• Product commercialization experience ​ 
• Demonstrated ability to align and motivate a team to work through a sustained period of transition, reorganization, etc. 
• Business/technical undergraduate degree , MBA preferred

The general base pay for this position ranges from $187,500/year to $250,000/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.