Director, CCIA Portfolio Management

Danaher • Chaska, MN

2d • $200,000 - $250,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
As a global leader in clinical diagnostics, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has challenged convention to elevate the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving patient health for more than 90 years. Our diagnostic solutions are used in routine and complex clinical testing, and are used in hospitals, reference and research laboratories, and physician offices around the world. Every hour around the world, more than one million tests are run on Beckman Coulter Diagnostics systems, impacting 1.2 billion patients and more than three million clinicians per year. From uncovering the next clinical breakthrough, to rapid and reliable sample analysis, to more rigorous decision making—we are enabling clinicians to deliver the best possible care to their patients with improved efficiency, clinical confidence, adaptive collaboration, and accelerated intelligence.
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The Director, CCIA Portfolio Management, is responsible for leading the management of the CCIA portfolio plan, insights generation and reporting to optimize execution and guide strategic decisions within the Clinical Chemistry & Immunoassay Business Unit. This is a new role that is instrumental to realize our ambitions by providing the critical link between portfolio strategy and tactical execution. The position reports to the Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy & Alliance Management.
This position is part of the Clinical Chemistry & Immunoassay Business Unit located at our Immunoassay Center of Excellence. Qualified candidates not located near Chaska will be considered and the role may be filled as a remote role. At Beckman Coulter, our mission is to Relentlessly Reimagine Healthcare, One Diagnosis at a Time.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Establish a new standard of complex analytics of portfolio financial performance, market trends and customer feedback to inform roadmap decisions, strategic planning and execution to drive market share gain and customer experience
Translate complex portfolio health data into actionable insights and recommendations, assessing sequencing scenarios, identify trends, risks, and opportunities to inform decision making, deploy predictive models to inform future impacts and areas for optimization
Establish standards for data source, visualization and documentation, providing the critical link between portfolio strategy and tactical execution while designing and implementing an end-to-end product-level portfolio solution, resulting in comprehensive portfolio health reports that link to strategic outcomes
Partner with Product and Program Management teams to develop portfolio investment plans, oversee product investment reporting and management, ensuring transparency of portfolio investment, resource allocation, and performance against strategic objectives
Be a voice of continuous improvement in portfolio management processes, tools, and reporting, scaling frameworks to improve efficiency, accuracy, and value delivered to stakeholders
Shape our comprehensive AI technology program, rationalized for process improvements, new product enablement, and portfolio strategy
Work closely with Product, Program and Portfolio Management teams to identify and execute portfolio optimization initiatives to enhance profitability and support the long-term product portfolio strategy

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, mathematics, statistics, data analytics, or related field with 20+ years of experience OR Master’s degree with 18+ years of experience OR Ph.D. with 15+ years of experience
• Strong technical skills with experience creating value through portfolio management
• Hands-on experience with portfolio management tools and executive reporting
• Experience translating complex data involving finances, market and customer behavior into actionable insights to drive product and/or portfolio business decisions
• Exceptional organizational and project portfolio management skills, attention to detail

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in quantitative field or business management
• Lean Sigma experience
• Product management and/or Innovation experience
• Life science, IVD and/or health care industry experience

Responsibilities

• Establish a new standard of complex analytics of portfolio financial performance, market trends and customer feedback to inform roadmap decisions, strategic planning and execution to drive market share gain and customer experience
• Translate complex portfolio health data into actionable insights and recommendations, assessing sequencing scenarios, identify trends, risks, and opportunities to inform decision making, deploy predictive models to inform future impacts and areas for optimization
• Establish standards for data source, visualization and documentation, providing the critical link between portfolio strategy and tactical execution while designing and implementing an end-to-end product-level portfolio solution, resulting in comprehensive portfolio health reports that link to strategic outcomes
• Partner with Product and Program Management teams to develop portfolio investment plans, oversee product investment reporting and management, ensuring transparency of portfolio investment, resource allocation, and performance against strategic objectives
• Be a voice of continuous improvement in portfolio management processes, tools, and reporting, scaling frameworks to improve efficiency, accuracy, and value delivered to stakeholders
• Shape our comprehensive AI technology program, rationalized for process improvements, new product enablement, and portfolio strategy
• Work closely with Product, Program and Portfolio Management teams to identify and execute portfolio optimization initiatives to enhance profitability and support the long-term product portfolio strategy

Benefits

• Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
• We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

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