Senior Director-Innovation & Insights

Ergon, Inc. is seeking a strategic and hands-on Senior Director, Innovation & Insights. The Senior Director - Innovation & Insights leads Ergon's enterprise innovation capability: a disciplined, data-led, and collaborative system that turns segment knowledge, technical capability, and market insight into measurable organic growth. Operating as a service and facilitation function, the role leads a small corporate Center of Excellence that helps segments innovate together while retaining ownership of execution and results. The role also owns enterprise foresight and long-term opportunity assessment.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Innovation Leadership: Build and lead enterprise innovation strategy aligned to organic-growth priorities.
• Enterprise Innovation Leadership: Establish a business-centered innovation narrative tied to measurable growth.
• Enterprise Innovation Leadership: Lead through collaboration and influence rather than centralized control.
• Enterprise Innovation System, Pipeline & Metrics: Build visibility into innovation pipeline, timing, value, and risk.
• Enterprise Innovation System, Pipeline & Metrics: Develop common stage-gate and prioritization processes.
• Enterprise Innovation System, Pipeline & Metrics: Define innovation scorecard and reporting cadence for ELT and Board.
• Cross-Segment Collaboration & Execution: Identify opportunities to leverage knowledge and assets across segments.
• Cross-Segment Collaboration & Execution: Convene cross-functional teams around high-potential opportunities.
• Cross-Segment Collaboration & Execution: Support transition of long-term initiatives into business-unit execution.
• Foresight & Insights: Monitor economic, energy-transition, and demographic trends.
• Foresight & Insights: Identify adjacent markets and long-term opportunities.
• Foresight & Insights: Translate insights into innovation pipeline and strategy implications.
• Long-Term Platforms, Funding & Intellectual Property: Steward long-term cross-business platform work.
• Long-Term Platforms, Funding & Intellectual Property: Partner with Finance on innovation funding model.
• Long-Term Platforms, Funding & Intellectual Property: Support enterprise intellectual-property strategy.
• Center of Excellence Leadership & Team Development: Lead a lean