Innovation Portfolio Manager, LATAM (Chile & Colombia)

Align Technology; Colombia; On-site; COP 180,000,000 - 260,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Align Technology seeks a Manager, Business Innovation for Chile and Colombia to own a multi-market portfolio from problem definition through to in-market pilots and handover to business owners.

You will work with country leadership teams, craft rigorous business cases, and drive initiatives end-to-end in a fast-paced LATAM environment. Fluency in Spanish and English is required, with Bogotá-based office presence.

Qualifications

• 6 to 10 years of experience in operational or implementation consulting, business transformation, or project-driven environment with real delivery ownership.
• Proven track record of taking projects from problem definition to implementation, not just recommendation.
• Structured problem solving with ability to frame, size and focus ambiguous problems.
• Hypothesis-driven mindset with test design and decision criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management across countries, functions and seniority levels.
• Executive communication that simplifies complexity for leadership decisions.
• Spanish and English fluency; Bogotá based with office presence five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own the Chile and Colombia innovation portfolio end to end, from problem definition through pilot to operational handover.
• Identify and frame business problems and opportunities in both markets, translating them into testable hypotheses.
• Build strategic assessments and business cases with rigorous assumptions, clear economics and risk framing.
• Design, launch and run in-market pilots with scope, timeline, success metrics and measurement plan.
• Decide on evidence; recommend scaling, pivoting, pausing or killing initiatives based on data.
• Lead governance and bring stakeholders to the table at the right time.

Skills

6-10 years experience

Operational consulting

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Fluent English

Fluent Spanish

Education

Postgraduate education in strategy/innovation

Postgraduate project management certification

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Align Technology seeks a Manager, Business Innovation for Chile and Colombia to own a multi-market portfolio from problem definition through to in-market pilots and handover to business owners.

You will work with country leadership teams, craft rigorous business cases, and drive initiatives end-to-end in a fast-paced LATAM environment. Fluency in Spanish and English is required, with Bogotá-based office presence.