Senior Director, Global Program Management

Portfolio Governance & Strategic Alignment

The Sr. Director of the Global Project Management Office (PMO) for Product Development & Innovation is responsible for orchestrating the execution, governance, and portfolio management of Fluidra's entire portfolio of product development and innovation projects across hardware, software, digital, and connected solutions worldwide. This role ensures that strategic investments in new product initiatives and innovation pipelines are prioritized, resourced, and delivered effectively to achieve business growth objectives, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards at global scale.

Innovation Pipeline Management & Strategic Prioritization

• Oversee the end-to-end product development pipeline from concept through launch, ensuring a healthy balance of short-term and long-term innovation investments.
• Collaborate and partner with Engineering, Software teams, Product Management, Marketing, Ops, and Commercial leaders to prioritize investments.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews, innovation governance forums, and executive decision-making processes.
• Drive resource allocation decisions aligned with strategic growth priorities.
• Ensure optimal balance of breakthrough innovation, platform development, and sustaining projects.
• Continuously evaluate portfolio health through value-based portfolio management, ensuring the organization focuses resources on the highest-value opportunities.
• Track and report on pipeline health metrics (number of projects by stage, time-to-market, conversion rates, and revenue), risks, resource utilization, and financial performance.

Accelerate Speed-to-Market

• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across the development lifecycle.
• Leverage AI-enabled portfolio analytics and predictive project management tools to improve prioritization, forecasting accuracy and decision-making.
• Improve project predictability, cycle times, and launch readiness.
• Implement leading practices in Agile, Stage-Gate, and hybrid development methodologies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the global innovation organization.

PMO Operations & Process Excellence

• Ensure consistent project lifecycle management from ideation and business case through commercialization and post-launch review.
• Drive adoption of project management best practices across regions and business units, including training and capability development.
• Oversee project management platforms and data quality to enable reliable decision-making.
• Drive enterprise-wide simplification of governance processes, reducing unnecessary complexity while increasing execution speed and organizational agility.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a global PMO team.
• Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, collaboration, execution excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Define career paths, competency frameworks, and succession plans within the PMO function.
• Arrtact and retain top-tier project management talent globally.

Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary interface between R&D, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Commercial teams for all innovation projects.
• Manage executive-level stakeholders, resolving escalations and ensuring sustained organizational commitment.
• Chair global project review boards and steering committees, facilitating decision-making and removing roadblocks.
• Champion a culture of transparency, proactive communication, and cross-functional ownership.

Enterprise Resource & Investment Management

• Own global resource capacity planning across Product Development and Innovation.
• Optimize allocation of critical engineering resources across strategic priorities.
• Partner with Finance to optimize innovation investments, balancing short-term delivery and long-term strategic growth.
• Ensure effective CAPEX/OPEX allocation across the innovation portfolio.