Sr Vp Technical Services And Innovation

Position: SR VP TECHNICAL SERVICES AND INNOVATION
Location: Maryland Heights

Summary:

The Senior Vice President, Technical Services and Innovation (SVP, Technical Services and Innovation) is a critical executive leadership role within the Vivos organization. This position provides end-to-end technical and scientific leadership across Research & Development, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Regulatory partnership, and Technical Project Management. The SVP is accountable for building and executing a robust innovation and commercialization pipeline across branded and private label products, ensuring speed-to-market, quality, compliance, and cost competitiveness.

This role leads complex, cross-functional technical programs from concept through commercialization, applying best-in-class project and portfolio management practices while ensuring rigorous stage-gate governance. The SVP partners closely with Vivos’s portfolio companies, including their Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Regulatory, and Engineering teams, as well as external partners to deliver differentiated products that meet customer, retailer, and regulatory expectations. In addition, this role establishes enterprise-wide technical standards, metrics, and processes that strengthen Vivos’s competitive advantage and culture of  addition, this role will play a key leadership role in the development, launch, and scaling of new technical and laboratory service capabilities within Vivos, including external-facing innovation and testing platforms.

As these capabilities mature, the role is expected to assume broader business leadership responsibilities, including end-to-end accountability for select technical services and laboratory businesses.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Strategy & Leadership Provide executive leadership for R&D, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and technical project management functions.

Establish and execute a multi-year technical and innovation roadmap aligned with Vivos’s mission, vision, and business strategy.

Lead identification, assessment, and advancement of innovation opportunities across formulations, materials, processes, and platforms.

Cultivate a culture of scientific rigor, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Lead the development of scalable technical and laboratory platforms that can support both internal product development and external customer services.

Translate scientific capabilities into differentiated, market-facing technical offerings that create new revenue streams and competitive advantage.

Lead the design and build-out of new technical and laboratory capabilities, including facilities, equipment, systems, and operating models, as required to support future growth initiatives.

Program, Project & Portfolio Leadership Own and govern the technical innovation portfolio, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, resourced, prioritized, and managed through the stage-gate process.

Serve as executive sponsor for the most complex, high-impact, cross-functional development and commercialization programs.

Ensure project plans achieve committed timelines, budgets, performance targets, and quality standards.

Establish and monitor portfolio and project KPIs, health metrics, financial performance, and post-launch outcomes.

Identify, assess, mitigate, and escalate technical, regulatory, and execution risks, with particular focus on critical path activities.

Expand portfolio governance to include technical service offerings, laboratory capacity planning, and utilization optimization.

Ensure portfolio decisions appropriately balance innovation investment, speed-to-market, risk, and financial return.

Balance product development and technical services portfolios to optimize customer value, capacity utilization, and financial returns.

Stage-Gate, Governance & Process Excellence Champion enterprise-wide adoption of standardized project management, stage-gate governance, and technical development processes.

Ensure strong cross-functional engagement, accountability, and timely decision-making throughout project life cycles.

Maintain executive-level visibility to active and upcoming projects, milestones, risks, and resource demands.

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