Director, Project Management

Meridian Bioscience Inc. is a fully integrated life science company dedicated to developing innovative diagnostic products. The Director, Project Management is responsible for enterprise-level governance and execution of new product development and strategic initiatives across the global Diagnostics business, ensuring alignment with growth and innovation objectives.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• advanced degree preferred