Meridian Bioscience

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description The Director, Project Management is a senior leadership role responsible for enterprise-level governance, prioritization, and execution of new product development (NPD) and strategic initiatives across the global Diagnostics business. This role elevates project management from operational oversight to a strategic capability, ensuring disciplined execution, cross-functional alignment, and delivery against Meridian Bioscience’s growth and innovation objectives. - Own governance and execution oversight for the global Diagnostics project portfolio, including NPD, lifecycle, and strategic initiatives. - Establish portfolio-level visibility across timelines, resources, dependencies, and risk. - Drive prioritization recommendations and scenario planning to support leadership decision-making. - Ensure projects are aligned to business strategy, commercial priorities, and capacity constraints. - Define, implement, and continuously improve project management frameworks, tools, and standards across Diagnostics. - Lead and enforce a disciplined phase-gate / stage-gate governance process for new product development through commercialization. - Ensure consistent application of best practices across all projects, balancing rigor with speed and agility. - Act as escalation owner for complex, high-risk, or cross-portfolio issues. - Partner with functional leaders to ensure clear ownership, accountability, and decision-making across project teams. - Proactively identify and resolve execution risks, resource conflicts, and interdependencies. - Facilitate effective communication between project teams and executive leadership. - Enable timely trade-off discussions and course corrections to keep programs on track. - Lead, develop, and scale a team of project managers and senior project managers to support company project pipeline and initiatives. - Set performance expectations, career pathways, and succession planning for the project management function. - Coach and develop project managers to operate as strategic business partners, not just task managers. - Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement. - Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on execution feasibility, timelines, and risk. - Provide concise, actionable portfolio updates and recommendations to executive stakeholders. - Support strategic planning, annual operating plans, and long-range roadmap development. - Ensure project execution complies with applicable regulatory, quality, and design control requirements. - Partner with Quality and Regulatory Affairs to embed compliance into project planning and execution. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred - Project management certification (PMP) or equivalent required - 10-15+ years of experience in project management - 5+ years of people leadership experience managing project managers or program leaders - Demonstrated experience in IVD design and development within U.S.-based regulated environments, with strong knowledge of FDA design controls and experience project managing within a formal design control framework - Proven success operating at portfolio and enterprise levels, influencing senior leaders - Enterprise project and portfolio management - Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline - Executive communication and influence - Risk management and decision facilitation - Cross-functional leadership in regulated environments - Talent development and organizational scaling Requirements - Travel: <25% Benefits - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. (USA Only)

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Responsible for driving commercial growth, portfolio expansion, and market leadership. This is a high-impact role with ownership for product success, downstream execution, and demand acceleration. Key Duties - Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership - Own end-to-end product lifecycle management from concept through launch, growth, and end-of-life - Portfolio strategy aligned to growth priorities and customer needs - Product differentiation through pricing, positioning, and portfolio optimization - Conversion of market insights into actionable investment decisions - Strong partnership with R&D and operations to ensure scalable and compliant solutions - Lead pricing strategy, portfolio optimization, and profitability initiatives - Downstream Marketing & Commercial Execution - Lead downstream marketing with accountability for revenue and adoption - Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for new and existing products - Create sales enablement tools and customer-facing content to drive adoption - Align with sales leadership on targeting, messaging, and field readiness - Track KPIs to measure downstream marketing effectiveness - Digital Marketing & Demand Acceleration - Digital marketing as a growth engine - Demand generation, digital campaigns, content, and automation - Consistent and compelling product storytelling across channels - Data-driven optimization of digital performance - Leadership & Culture - Build, lead, and scale high-performing product and marketing teams - Set expectations, accountability, and execution standards - Develop future leaders and strengthen bench depth - Act as a visible cross-functional leader Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred - 10+ years of progressive experience in product management and downstream marketing within life sciences, diagnostics, biotech, or adjacent regulated markets - Proven people leader with experience managing teams in product management and/or downstream marketing - Demonstrated success owning product commercialization, go-to-market execution, and lifecycle performance - Strong experience using digital marketing and demand generation to drive measurable commercial outcome - Ability to simplify complex technical offerings into compelling, differentiated customer value - Data-driven mindset with a bias for action and accountability Preferred - Experience in IVD, diagnostics, OEM life sciences, or B2B scientific markets - Experience leading global or multi-region portfolios - Familiarity with CRM, marketing automation, and performance analytics platforms - Track record of launching new products that materially impacted growth Requirements - Travel: 25% Company Description Meridian Bioscience is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. We are looking for talented and passionate individuals that help drive our vision. Our innovative culture will allow interested candidates to discover and create, through collaboration, cutting edge solutions to tough problems.