Senior Director, Global Portfolio Management
Nova Biomedical
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Job summary
Nova Biomedical is seeking a Senior Director, Global Portfolio Management – Biopharma to lead the global product management organization for the Biopharma business. This senior strategic role defines and executes the global portfolio strategy across life science tools and workflow solutions used in cell line development and bioprocessing.
The leader will own long-range portfolio vision, multi-year roadmaps, and investment recommendations to drive commercial success.
Qualifications
- 12–15+ years of progressive experience in product/portfolio management, strategic marketing, or related leadership roles.
- Experience leading product managers or cross-functional teams in life sciences tools or bioprocessing environments.
- Proven ownership of a global product portfolio with strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, pricing, and commercial outcomes.
- Strong understanding of life science customer workflows and translating needs into product strategy.
- Experience collaborating with R&D, commercial, marketing, applications, operations, quality, regulatory, and finance teams.
- Ability to build business cases and connect strategy to revenue and margins.
- Strong executive communication skills for senior leadership.
- Experience operating in a global matrixed organization with regional teams.
- Customer-oriented with engagement with strategic accounts and key opinion leaders.
- Experience with bioprocessing, biologics, cell line development, and related workflows is preferred.
- MBA or advanced business experience valued.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the global Biopharma portfolio strategy across platforms.
- Develop a 3–5 year portfolio roadmap aligned to customer workflows and market opportunities.
- Translate market dynamics and customer insights into portfolio priorities.
- Create portfolio-level investment cases, market sizing, and financial models.
- Establish a disciplined portfolio review integrating revenue, margin, installed base, lifecycle, and innovation.
- Lead and develop a global team of product managers and portfolio leaders.
- Implement a high-performance product management operating model with clear accountability.
- Build standards, tools, dashboards, and decision frameworks for the portfolio.
- Strengthen Voice of Customer, market intelligence, and competitive intelligence.
- Evolve from product-line to integrated workflow and platform strategy.
- Identify opportunities to connect instruments, consumables, software, service, and data.
- Own the portfolio innovation roadmap and align with R&D priorities and business value.
- Prioritize product development investments with R&D and program management.
- Define product requirements, target profiles, and launch criteria for major initiatives.
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Applications, Service, and regional leaders for execution.
- Support strategic customer engagements and major commercial opportunities.
- Monitor portfolio performance against revenue, margin, market share, adoption, launches, and lifecycle metrics.
- Own lifecycle management from concept to retirement and optimize pricing with stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve mix, margins, and attachment rates across products.
- Support inorganic growth through gaps, adjacencies, partnerships, and potential acquisitions.
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Education
Job description
Advanced Instruments and Nova Biomedical are now united under one brand, Nova Biomedical, marking a major milestone in our journey to deliver greater value to our customers. By combining our strengths, we're accelerating innovation, supporting critical workflows, and delivering world-class service across the biopharmaceutical and clinical markets.
Nova Biomedical is seeking a Senior Director, Global Portfolio Management – Biopharma to lead the global product management organization for the Biopharma business. This senior strategic leadership role is responsible for defining and executing the global portfolio strategy across a broad portfolio of life science tools and workflow solutions used in cell line development, bioprocessing, osmometry, liquid handling verification, and emerging adjacent technologies.
This leader will own the long-range portfolio vision, multi-year product roadmap, innovation priorities, lifecycle management strategy, and portfolio investment recommendations for the Biopharma business. The ideal candidate is a commercially minded, technically credible product leader with strong life sciences or bioprocessing market experience, deep product management discipline, strong commercial acumen, and the leadership presence to align global teams around a common portfolio strategy.
- Define and own the global Biopharma portfolio strategy across existing and emerging platforms.
- Build and maintain a 3–5 year portfolio roadmap aligned to customer workflow needs, market growth opportunities, competitive positioning, and company strategy.
- Translate market dynamics, customer insights, scientific trends, and commercial data into clear portfolio priorities.
- Develop portfolio-level investment recommendations, including business cases, market sizing, financial models, and strategic tradeoffs.
- Establish a disciplined portfolio review process that integrates revenue performance, margin, installed base opportunity, lifecycle stage, competitive position, and innovation pipeline.
- Lead, coach, and develop a global team of product managers and portfolio leaders.
- Establish a high-performance product management operating model with clear accountability for strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, launch readiness, pricing, and commercial performance.
- Build common product management standards, tools, dashboards, and decision frameworks across the portfolio.
- Strengthen Voice of Customer, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, and customer workflow mapping capabilities.
- Lead the evolution from product-line management to integrated workflow and platform strategy.
- Identify opportunities to connect instruments, consumables, applications, software, service, and data into differentiated workflow solutions.
- Own the portfolio innovation roadmap and ensure alignment between customer needs, product strategy, R&D priorities, and business value.
- Partner with R&D and Program Management to prioritize new product development investments and sustaining engineering efforts.
- Define product requirements, target product profiles, business cases, and launch success criteria for major development initiatives.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Applications, Service, and Regional Leaders to translate portfolio strategy into commercial execution.
- Support strategic customer engagements, executive account discussions, key opinion leader meetings, and major commercial opportunities.
- Monitor portfolio performance against revenue, margin, market share, adoption, launch, and lifecycle metrics.
- Own lifecycle management across the Biopharma portfolio, from concept through launch, scale, sustain, refresh, rationalization, and retirement.
- Drive pricing strategy in partnership with Commercial, Finance, Marketing, and Regional teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve product mix, margin, consumables attachment, service attachment, installed-base utilization, and portfolio profitability.
- Support inorganic growth strategy by identifying portfolio gaps, workflow adjacencies, acquisition targets, and partnership opportunities.
- Participate in due diligence for potential acquisitions, partnerships, OEM opportunities, and technology licensing.
- Ensure newly acquired technologies are incorporated into the broader portfolio roadmap, value proposition, commercial strategy, and lifecycle governance.
- 12–15+ years of progressive experience in product management, portfolio management, strategic marketing, commercial leadership, or general management in life sciences tools, bioprocessing, analytical instrumentation, diagnostics, biotechnology, or adjacent scientific technology markets.
- Demonstrated experience leading product managers, portfolio leaders, or cross-functional product teams.
- Proven ownership of a complex global product portfolio with accountability for strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, pricing, launch, and commercial outcomes.
- Strong understanding of life science customer workflows and the ability to translate customer needs into differentiated product strategy.
- Experience working closely with R&D, Commercial, Marketing, Applications, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Finance teams.
- Demonstrated ability to build business cases, evaluate investment tradeoffs, and connect product strategy to revenue, margin, and market share outcomes.
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical and business topics clearly to senior leadership.
- Experience operating in a global, matrixed organization with regional commercial teams and distributed stakeholders.
- Strong customer orientation with experience engaging strategic accounts, key opinion leaders, and technical decision makers.
- Experience in bioprocessing, biologics manufacturing, cell line development, process analytics, upstream bioprocessing, formulation, quality control, or cell and gene therapy workflows preferred.
- Experience with instrument, consumable, and software portfolios preferred.
- Experience building workflow or platform strategies across multiple product lines preferred.
- Experience with global product launches and stage‑gate product development preferred.
- Experience with portfolio rationalization, lifecycle management, and pricing strategy preferred.Experience supporting M&A diligence, partnership evaluation, OEM relationships, or acquisition integration preferred.
- Advanced degree in life sciences, engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, or related scientific field preferred; MBA or equivalent business experience strongly valued.
- Willingness to travel as required (including air and ground transportation).
- Valid driver’s license and ability to safely operate a motor vehicle as needed for job responsibilities.
- Able to store, transport materials, samples, or demonstration equipment (up to ~25 pounds).
- Comfort with standing and engaging with customers for extended periods.
- Ability to adapt to varying work environments (e.g., customer sites, laboratories, offices).
- Flexible Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Competitive 401k company match
- Bonus Program, Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Generous Tuition reimbursement
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangements
- Professional development, engagement and events
- Company marketplace for lunch and snacks in our Norwood, MA, Billerica, MA and Westbrook, ME offices
- Company subsidized cafeteria in our Waltham, MA office
Waltham, MA
$200,000-$250,000/yr
Nova Biomedical believes in transparency and integrity throughout all we do, including compensation. The provided salary range for this role represents the expected base salary or hourly rate for this opening. Actual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience and may vary based on individual factors such as location, skills, and education.
At Nova Biomedical, we’re not just building instruments, we’re powering breakthroughs that improve lives. Our smart, science-driven solutions are trusted in over 100 countries to speed drug development and enhance patient care.
Our integration brings together more than 70 years of scientific excellence with Nova’s cutting‑edge innovation, forming a powerhouse of precision, purpose, and possibility. With FDA-registered, ISO-certified manufacturing, more than 125 FDA approvals, and industry‑trusted diagnostics, we’re setting new standards in quality and reliability. Nova Biomedical is proud to be a global leader in osmolality testing and biotechnology and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) instrumentation, dedicated to advancing patient care and scientific discovery with a legacy that continues to shape the future of life sciences.
With headquarters in Norwood and Waltham, Massachusetts, and a global team of nearly 2,000 employees, we’re building a collaborative, empowered culture grounded in shared values: Customer Centricity, Ingenuity, Ownership & Accountability, Collaboration, and Integrity.
Working at Nova Biomedical means joining a mission-driven organization where your contributions matter.
Whether you're in engineering, science, manufacturing, or support, you’ll be part of a team that values innovation, invests in your growth, and is committed to making a real-world impact on global health.
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Nova Biomedical takes pride in being an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. As a part of our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, Nova Biomedical will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.
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