Director, Product Portfolio Management

Role Overview

• Develop tools and templates that connect product strategies, plans, and outcomes to the enterprise strategic plan (map products to strategy and OKRs)
• Collaborate with Product Owners to capture product related analytics to promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement
• Lead cross-functional teams in identifying, prioritizing, and implementing improvement opportunities across the product portfolio
• Drive implementation of governance processes to manage the product portfolio, including intake, prioritization, capacity allocation, funding alignment, and measurement
• Establish and continuously improve standard best practices for product management and product delivery, including outcome-based planning (OKRs), roadmap hygiene, and decision transparency
• Oversee Q&C product portfolio budgets (including build/change and run/operate), ensuring transparency across investments and alignment to outcomes
• Support development of product investment cases, funding requests, and governance artifacts (e.g., business cases, CARs where applicable), including assumptions, benefits, and total cost of ownership
• Pull the entire Q&C product portfolio together for measurement, analysis, and executive reporting (roadmaps, funding, outcomes, and product health)
• Support annual planning processes, tools, measurement, and reporting (G&O, Strategic Plan, etc) collaborating with product owners to establish clear KPIs and ROI targets for all products ensuring alignment with overall business objectives
• Tracks, documents and communicates quantifiable business results achieved from the products portfolio
• Ensure LRFP and BP are aligned to product plans and lifecycle needs (build, run, enhance, retire), enabling delivery of the strategic plan through sustained product investment
• Assemble concrete internal and external insights through effective product management processes, stakeholder and team insights, industry trends, and benchmarking processes
• Develop relationships with product owners and strategy execution leaders to understand business impact and success stories from the deployment and use of EQ products, sharing products highlights and relevant content to promote the products and their business impact in enabling the Q&C strategy.

Requirements

• A minimum of 12 years of related work experience
• Cross-sector experience: Consumer Products, Medical Devices and Diagnostics, Biotech, or Pharmaceuticals
• Product management experience (product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and lifecycle management)
• Strong business acumen to drive investment alignment with LRFP & BP
• Team building and leadership skills
• Strong tactical and strategic management skills
• Strategic thinking, visionary and foresight to conceptualize new solutions that address core business objectives
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization
• Strong work ethic with the ability to create passion around achieving objectives
• Drive strategic direction and deployment of goals and objectives into meaningful actions
• Strong negotiation, communication, and change management skills
• Specific experience in establishing metrics and scorecards to monitor progress against Strategic Plans
• Experience in leading multiple areas of Quality Systems
• Experience in partnering with finance and supply chain organizations & leaders

Benefits

• Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k))
• This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program.
• Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time
• 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time
• up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year