Advisor, R&D Portfolio Strategy & Management

EloVetNet; Indianapolis, Northern (IN, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elanco is seeking an Advisor, R&D Portfolio Management to drive the transformation of how R&D portfolios are managed, moving from static reporting to live, insight-guided evaluations. The role partners with R&D, IT, and Finance to bridge project execution with executive governance.

The position focuses on portfolio strategy, prioritization, and governance, delivering decision-ready insights to senior leadership and aligning resource allocation with corporate goals.

Qualifications

• Experience translating portfolio strategy into actionable project priorities.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams across R&D, IT, Finance.
• Strong data analysis, dashboards, and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Management Transformation: identify opportunities to enhance portfolio management processes, tools, and evaluation capabilities; support rollout of data improvements and live insights.
• Strategic Liaison: embed with SPMO and Strategic Portfolio Leads to translate strategy into actionable project priorities with updated valuation models.
• Portfolio Strategy: synthesize inputs from Corporate Strategy, Innovation Strategy, and R&D to advise on resource allocations to meet strategic goals.
• Prioritization & Resource Allocation Support: conduct portfolio-wide prioritization and trade-off analyses for dynamic resource allocation across the R&D pipeline.
• Performance Monitoring, Governance & Cross-Functional Collaboration: establish KPI dashboards and present decision-ready insights to the Portfolio Governance Committee.

Job description

Elanco Vaga externa

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As Advisor, R&D Portfolio Management, you will serve as a key catalyst of the transformation journey within Elanco’s Global R&D organization, playing a pivotal role in shaping Elanco’s pipeline and portfolio decisions. In this dual-function role, you will modernize how Elanco manages its R&D portfolio by enhancing systems and processes—transitioning static reporting toward live, insight-guided evaluations—while partnering across the innovation community to bridge project execution with executive governance.

Your Responsibilities

• Portfolio Management Transformation (50%): Continuously identify opportunities to enhance portfolio management processes, tools, and evaluation capabilities; champion the journey toward a single source of truth within the PPM ecosystem; guide the design and implementation of PPM data improvements in partnership with R&D and IT; and support the rollout of a PPM Intelligence solution that connects foundational data with real-time proactive insights and AI capabilities.
• Strategic Liaison (20%): Serve as an embedded strategic partner with the SPMO and Strategic Portfolio Leads, translating portfolio-level strategic intent into actionable project priorities while ensuring project milestone shifts, resource constraints, and risk changes are rapidly reflected in valuation and prioritization models to bridge project execution with executive governance.
• Portfolio Strategy (10%): Synthesize diverse inputs from Corporate Strategy, Innovation Strategy, and R&D into a holistic view of portfolio opportunities; ideate, develop, and implement evaluation frameworks to assess R&D pipelines and recommend optimal resource allocations aligned with corporate strategic goals.
• Prioritization & Resource Allocation Support (<10%): Perform portfolio-wide prioritization and trade‑off assessments to enable dynamic resource allocation across the R&D pipeline, delivering clear recommendations to senior leadership to optimize the portfolio mix against clinical, commercial, and market shifts.
• Performance Monitoring, Governance & Cross-Functional Collaboration (<10%): Establish and maintain R&D portfolio health KPIs and executive dashboards; synthesize decision-ready insights for the R&D Portfolio Governance Committee (PGC); and translate complex quantitative findings into compelling strategic recommendations while fostering seamless cross-functional alignment across R&D project teams, Finance, Commercial, and Corporate Strategy.