Project Portfolio Director in R&D

Project Portfolio Director in R&D

Do you want a role at the true core of our business, where you get to greatly impact and oversee innovation projects and programs in Coloplast? Is strong leadership one of your key values and can you see yourself serving a team of highly skilled project and program managers while setting a clear direction for your project portfolio?

Then join our leadership team for the Innovation Project Management department, where our aspirations match our high professionalism with the aim to make life easier for people with intimate health care needs.

Welcome to Coloplast and Innovation Project Management 

Based in our HQ in Humlebæk, you will be joining our R&D Innovation Project Management team, where you will be directing a project portfolio within the Chronic Care business and leading a team of 10 highly skilled innovation project and program managers. The position reports to the VP of Innovation Project Management, a function within RD.

Furthermore, you will become part of our leadership team with 2 other Project Portfolio Directors covering other business areas and a PMO function. You will have responsibility for maintaining and driving your project and program portfolio, ensuring the right mix of technology, early and late stage projects. You will work as a portfolio manager together with your key commercial stakeholders to build road maps, initiate and follow up on progress and guide decisions according to business and strategic priorities.  In our leadership team you will gain a solid, trusted network for professional input. 

Help to secure business objectives and lead our project manager team to reach their full potential

Your role will be broad. Across business, leadership and functional responsibilities, your task will be to create the foundation for the project managers to fulfil their potential by coaching, mentoring and setting a clear direction and drive the development of your leaders and team. In the capacity of Project Portfolio Manager, you will work with stakeholders to support portfolio progress and set the strategic direction for the portfolio design and follow up on execution and guide our steering groups on taking informed decisions.

Your areas of responsibilities will further cover:

•    Ensuring that project management processes including resource management, financial forecasting and reporting and PM ways of working are aligned with Coloplast’s guidelines, procedures and governance, driving perfect and high-quality project execution 
•    Ensuring focused steering group interactions by supporting and coaching your project managers
•    Change management of the continuous improvement initiatives for project, program and portfolio management, ensuring effective alignment with internal business partners to move our organisation forward.

Empathetic leader with extensive R&D project management experience

With a good business acumen, you can combine commercial aspects and technical insights and through that navigate a position where business results, network relations and processes are key. Thus, managing stakeholders on several different levels comes natural to you. 

You seek the opposing viewpoint and make an effort to bring new and relevant reflections to the table, challenge status quo and you have a feel for what the future might have in store for us. Also, you base your leadership principles on leading by intent, building on trust, professional know-how and an empathetic mindset. 

Furthermore, we imagine that you:
•    Have solid experience (+10 years) from a complex and diverse R&D environment working with project and program management, with a proven track record of successful leadership and deliveries
•    Have solid business acumen that allows you to set direction on priorities and work closely with commercial stakeholders to form your portfolio
•    Have extensive experience working with product development processes as well as a good understanding of manufacturing systems as our colleagues in Global Operation will be your key stakeholders
•    Have good experience with leading, coaching, mentoring and developing project managers or leaders
•    Have most likely worked within a regulated industry, preferably MedTech or similar
•    Speak and write English fluently

Interested? 

If your qualifications match the description and you are interested in taking your career onto the next level, please submit your application. If you have specific questions to the position, please write to VP of Innovation Project Management, Morten Wainach Ølgaard at DKMWD@coloplast.com. 
We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously, so do not hesitate to apply. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found.
 

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.

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