Director, Portfolio Governance

About the role

The Director, Portfolio Governance is a strategic leadership role accountable for designing, enabling, and continuously improving the Development governance framework that drives high-quality, timely decision-making across the development portfolio. This role embeds decision excellence, clarity of decision rights, and disciplined execution across the governance forums.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve the governance framework to enable effective, scalable decision-making across the portfolio.
• Establish and enforce decision quality and readiness standards, including clear articulation of options, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
• Facilitate governance forums to ensure structured, decision-focused discussions and clear, actionable outcomes.
• Define and manage governance performance metrics (e.g., decision cycle time, right-first-time decisions, deferrals, forum utilization) to assess effectiveness.
• Translate governance metrics and feedback into actionable insights, driving a closed-loop continuous improvement model.
• Synthesize governance outputs into portfolio-level insights, identifying cross-program risks, recurring issues, and systemic bottlenecks.
• Establish and maintain centralized decision documentation and knowledge management practices to ensure transparency and traceability.
• Oversee governance intake, prioritization, and scheduling to ensure alignment to strategic importance, while advancing efficient, scalable processes and leveraging technology to streamline execution.
• Drive cross-forum integration to streamline escalation pathways, eliminate duplication, and improve decision flow.
• Partner closely with senior leaders, governance chairs, and stakeholders to align priorities and reinforce governance expectations.
• Implement governance quality and experience measurement, incorporating multi-directional feedback from teams, executives, and chairs to improve effectiveness.
• Coach and develop team members ensuring that the organizational strategy delivers the skills, capabilities and processes that enable portfolio delivery are present in his/her team.

Requirements

Absolutely required:

• Deep understanding of drug development lifecycle and portfolio management.
• Proven experience designing governance frameworks, operating models, or decision-making processes.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into insights and actions.
• Experience with process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma) preferred.

Preferred:

• Exceptional executive communication and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive change in matrixed environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrate experience leading and developing high-performance teams, including direct people management.
• Experience leveraging technology and digital solutions to enable scalable processes, improve efficiency and enhance decision-making (e.g. dashboards, workflow tools, analytics platforms).

Qualifications

Absolutely required:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 12+ years of experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, or consulting.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$183,100.00 - $305,200.00 annually

Schedule

Not specified.