Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning

The Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning is a strategic partner to the EVP of Reference Labs, Bio Analytics, Water, LPD (Livestock Poultry Dairy) & IT, supporting a broad portfolio that includes four business lines as well as Information Technology and Information Security.

This role supports the EVP and their leadership team in driving key strategic, operational, and cultural initiatives that enable business growth and transformation. This highly collaborative role is responsible for driving enterprise goal tracking, maintaining alignment on key priorities, and enabling cross-functional initiatives. The Director acts as an integrator and influencer — ensuring clarity, focus, and momentum across the organization.

• Partner with the EVP’s front office (administration, HR, and finance) to increase productivity by driving a cohesive approach to key business activities,including strategic planning, budget development, resource allocation,communications strategy,and stakeholder management
• Createandmaintainsystems and processes to ensure effective meeting preparation and facilitation, communication of outcomes, and follow through on decisions and actions.
• Develop and manage a disciplined agenda for extended leadership team meetings, townhalls, and offsites; to include topic selection, content management, and tracking and follow up foractionitems.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

• Provide portfolio,business,and sector insights by performing research, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, often in connection with key strategic questions, competitive intelligence gathering, andexecutivepresentations
• Work cross-functionally with key stakeholders and SMEs, playing a key role in collecting, analysing, interpreting, and synthesizing a wide range of internal or external materials, datasets and financial information, to extract and provide valuable insights, recommendations to support decision-making, and shape key messages and relevant content development forleadershipcommunications.

• Lead and oversee the annualportfoliogoal setting process
• Manage andoptimizeexecution,driving rigor around process and timeline, senior leadership alignment, cascaded distribution, and accountability for outcomes
• Manage and prepare annual and quarterly reviews and reporting

• Drive key initiatives and programs; holding accountability for the planning and delivery of projects (shortandlong duration)
• Enable teams tooperateeffectively, removing barriers andfacilitatingdecision-making, while ensuring business unit and functional leadersretainresponsibility for their respective areas

• Ensure that theEVPis briefed, and materials are prepared for a wide range of internal and external stakeholder activities such as board meetingsandinvestor conferences.
• Lead the design,development and preparation ofEVPcommunications, including key messages and presentation materials.

• Master’sdegree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
• General Business Experience
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  Wide and deep experience demonstrating expert functional competence (10+ years), including roles requiring structured problem‑solving, analytical rigor, and cross‑functional business insight.
• Managerial
  
  Experience:
  
  Proven experience interpreting strategy and setting/delivering team objectives within medium to long‑term time horizons (5+ years), with demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Strategic & Enterprise Exposure: Track record operating in complex, matrixed environments with meaningful responsibility for cross‑functional strategy execution, transformation, or enterprise‑level initiatives
• Proven experience in strategy, operations, or transformation roles within a global, matrixed organization
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives across multiple business units and functions
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including…