Senior Director, R&D Shared Services

INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES CORP; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 192,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Integra LifeSciences is seeking a Senior Director, R&D Shared Services to lead Packaging Development, Analytical Laboratories, Biocompatibility and Preclinical Sciences, and to align strategy with portfolio priorities across NPD and lifecycle management.

As a member of the R&D Leadership Team, you will attract and develop talent, drive operational excellence, and deliver measurable business impact while ensuring regulatory and quality requirements are met.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in medical devices, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary technical and scientific organizations.
• Strong understanding of product development, packaging, analytical testing, biocompatibility, preclinical research, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to build high-performing teams, develop leaders, and drive organizational transformation.
• Strong strategic, operational, and business leadership skills, with the ability to influence across functions and executive leadership levels.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy, operating model, and roadmap for R&D Shared Services.
• Lead enterprise capabilities across Packaging Development, Analytic Laboratories, Biocompatibility, and Preclinical Sciences, including strategic oversight of Packaging Development through the Director of Packaging.
• Align organizational capabilities, capacity, technologies, and investments with portfolio priorities and business objectives.
• Drive operational excellence, scalability, continuous improvement, and measurable business performance.
• Establish meaningful metrics to monitor service delivery, organizational effectiveness, and business impact.
• Enable successful execution of Innovation, NPD, and LCM portfolios through strong technical, scientific, and operational leadership.
• Ensure technical, scientific, quality, regulatory, and clinical requirements are effectively integrated throughout the product lifecycle.
• Align functional strategies, scientific platforms, laboratory capabilities, and technical roadmaps with current and future portfolio needs.
• Strengthen capabilities, infrastructure, technologies, and external partnerships to improve execution, quality, and speed.
• Provide leadership for product development, regulatory submissions, lifecycle management, and commercialization activities.
• Attract, develop, engage, and retain top scientific, engineering, technical, and functional leadership talent across all four organizations.
• Build strong leadership teams, succession pipelines, and workforce strategies that support long-term business and portfolio needs.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Optimize the deployment of people, laboratories, technologies, and external resources to maximize organizational performance.
• Partner across R&D, Program Management, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Human Resources to enable portfolio success.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Operational excellence

People development

Education

Advanced degree in Engineering or Life Sciences

PhD preferred

Job description

Changing lives. Building Careers. Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what’s possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.

Changing What’s Possible At Integra LifeSciences, we are dedicated to restoring patients’ lives through innovative solutions in regenerative tissue technologies, neurosurgery, and surgical reconstruction. Our employees are united by a shared purpose: to improve outcomes for healthcare professionals and the patients they serve.

The Senior Director, R&D Shared Services leads critical scientific, engineering, and technical capabilities that enable innovation, product development, lifecycle management, regulatory and quality excellence, and sustainable business growth.

Position Summary The Senior Director, R&D Shared Services is responsible for the strategy, performance, and continued development of Integra LifeSciences’ Packaging Development, Analytical Laboratories, Biocompatibility, and Preclinical Sciences organizations. As a member of the R&D Leadership Team, this role provides the technical, scientific, and operational capabilities that enable successful execution of Innovation, New Product Development (NPD), and Lifecycle Management (LCM) portfolios. The Senior Director builds a high-performing organization with the talent, expertise, infrastructure, and operating discipline required to accelerate innovation, support regulatory and quality excellence, and drive sustainable business growth.

Principal Responsibilities

Enterprise Leadership

Define and execute the strategy, operating model, and roadmap for R&D Shared Services. Lead enterprise capabilities across Packaging Development, Analytical Laboratories, Biocompatibility, and Preclinical Sciences, including strategic oversight of Packaging Development through the Director of Packaging. Align organizational capabilities, capacity, technologies, and investments with portfolio priorities and business objectives. Drive operational excellence, scalability, continuous improvement, and measurable business performance. Establish meaningful metrics to monitor service delivery, organizational effectiveness, and business impact.

Portfolio & Technical Enablement

Enable successful execution of Innovation, NPD, and LCM portfolios through strong technical, scientific, and operational leadership. Ensure technical, scientific, quality, regulatory, and clinical requirements are effectively integrated throughout the product lifecycle. Align functional strategies, scientific platforms, laboratory capabilities, and technical roadmaps with current and future portfolio needs. Strengthen capabilities, infrastructure, technologies, and external partnerships to improve execution, quality, and speed. Provide leadership for product development, regulatory submissions, lifecycle management, and commercialization activities.

Talent & Organizational Development

Attract, develop, engage, and retain top scientific, engineering, technical, and functional leadership talent across all four organizations. Build strong leadership teams, succession pipelines, and workforce strategies that support long‑term business and portfolio needs. Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence. Optimize the deployment of people, laboratories, technologies, and external resources to maximize organizational performance. Partner across R&D, Program Management, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Human Resources to enable portfolio success.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, or a related field; PhD preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in medical devices, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary technical and scientific organizations.
• Strong understanding of product development, packaging, analytical testing, biocompatibility, preclinical research, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to build high-performing teams, develop leaders, and drive organizational transformation.
• Strong strategic, operational, and business leadership skills, with the ability to influence across functions and executive leadership levels.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate is a strategic and people-focused leader with a track record of building world-class technical organizations and developing exceptional talent. This leader balances scientific rigor, operational excellence, and business impact while creating an environment where innovation and high performance thrive.

Why Join Integra

This role offers the opportunity to shape enterprise R&D capabilities that directly enable innovation, product development, regulatory success, and portfolio growth across Integra’s global technology organization.

Salary Pay Range

$192,050.00 - $263,350.00 USD

Salary

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

Additional Description for Pay Transparency

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance, and savings plan (401(k)). Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following Total Rewards | Integra LifeSciences Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. This site is governed solely by applicable U.S. laws and governmental regulations. If you'd like more information on your rights under the law, please see the following notices: EEO Is the Law | EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans Integra LifeSciences is committed to provide qualified applicants and employees who are disabled veterans or individuals with disabilities with needed reasonable accommodations in accordance with the ADA. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please email us at [e-mail].

Unsolicited Agency Submission

Integra LifeSciences does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs/resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. A formal written agreement is required before engaging any agency, and it must be executed and authorized by the Vice President, Talent Acquisition. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions (the initial sharing of a candidate’s name, resume, or background) are position-specific and may only occur within the scope of that approved agreement. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Integra - Employer Branding

Whatever your specialty, you’ll find an ideal setting for building a rewarding career. Along the way, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing your work matters, that it’s making patients’ lives better, making a positive and lasting difference. You’ll find that the pace is exhilarating – because the need is so urgent. You’ll be challenged – and supported – by the most dynamic and inspiring people in your profession. And you’ll grow a career that is more impactful and fulfilling then you thought possible. More than 4,200 Integra employees already know we’re a great place to build a career. Here’s your chance to discover that for yourself.