Productivity Solutions Division (PSD) Strategic Portfolio & Project Management Director

Agilent Technologies provides instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise to life science, diagnostic, and applied market laboratories worldwide. The Director will lead the Productivity Solutions Division Project Management Center of Excellence, overseeing portfolio governance, investment prioritization, resource planning, and execution of strategic software transformation initiatives. The role manages project and portfolio managers, supports strategic planning, and ensures effective delivery across complex software and automation projects.

Responsibilities:

• People Manager accountable for the performance and development of the PSD PMCoE Organization
• Responsible for the individual performance, development and work assignments of the PSD PMCOE Portfolio and Project Managers. Develop Project Managers for future roles within Agilent
• Accountable for the Project Portfolio Management process to facilitate and lead Staff discussions on Investment, Resourcing and Prioritization decisions. Highlights and provides counsel to PSD Staff on Productivity Projects progress and overall PSD Portfolio Management status
• Actively engage stakeholders in project manager assignments, prioritization, and execution ensuring all projects are delivered with Agilent procedures, using best practices to meet agreed requirements of scope, time, cost and quality. Effectively communicates problems, issues, risks and solutions
• Coach, mentor, manage, educate and develop skill sets of program and project managers and teams
• Collaborate with functional managers on project delivery processes, project reporting, and resource allocation and planning
• Oversee the development of detailed project plans, work, and cost estimates, critical path assessment, budgets and schedules, including goals and risks
• Staff member of the ACG Strategy & Business Operations CoE, aligns best practices and consistent Project Portfolio management business processes across the ACG PMCoE organizations, support growth and development and participates in organization strategic planning at both ACG and PSD levels

Requirements:

• 10+ years' experience in project/program/portfolio management leading large scale, complex projects or portfolios with multiple stakeholder groups
• 5+ years' experience formally or informally leading people
• Experience leading a program management office for a large (fortune 500) multinational company
• Experience with people management including development and mentoring
• Experience with complex matrixed organizations and facilitation to address competing priorities and diverse opinions
• Significant experience with PLM methodologies (PMP, Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma)
• Experience with Software development projects and processes. Must have Agile experience
• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, information technology, engineering, or related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• This role manages a team of remote employees in US, India and EMEA. Location (remote or on-site and time zone) is flexible but successful candidate must be willing to match working hours to needs of PSD Division Staff
• 25% of the Time
• Day
• Master's degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Project Management Institute PMP certification preferred
• Six-sigma, Agile or Scrum Master certification preferred
• Experience in the analytical life sciences, laboratory, software, SaaS, or informatics industries preferred