Director, Core Portfolio Management

Director, Portfolio Management

By joining Bio-Techne, you'll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range : $153,300.00 - $251,850.00

About The Role

The Director, Portfolio Management within the Advanced Cell Systems (ACS) Business Unit will drive long-term value creation across RUO Proteins, Small Molecules, and other ACS product categories. This role is accountable for shaping and executing a portfolio strategy to support Growing and Leveraging the Core. This leader will be instrumental in optimizing portfolio performance through data in alignment with business goals, customer needs, and operational systems. The ideal candidate is strategic and process-oriented, with a collaborative and coaching approach, who will work across team boundaries.

Key Responsibilities :

• Strategic Product Life Cycle Management
• Define and execute a structured lifecycle management strategy, incorporating product maturity models and end-of-life strategies to maximize long-term portfolio value.
• Drive analysis and recommendations to inform product evolution and differentiation, including discontinuations vs. next-generation planning based on new applications or market areas.
• Champion the use of data to proactively identify value inflection points such as competitive landscape changes, emerging customer needs, technology shifts, etc.
• Portfolio Governance and Optimization
• Design and implement scalable portfolio models, including robust product hierarchies, standardized data structures, and value-based portfolio segmentation aligned to high growth end markets.
• Partner with product management, commercial, and finance leaders to establish dynamic pricing strategies that enable continuous value optimization, not just annual cycles.
• Oversee strategic pricing controls, including discount governance and profitability frameworks to ensure pricing consistency, transparency, and margin integrity across SKUs.
• Integrated Business Planning and Operational Alignment
• Represent the portfolio within SIOP, ensuring accurate demand planning inputs, including : customer contractual obligations (e.g., MSAs), end-of-life planning and transition timelines, multi-lot strategies for demand / supply / quality alignment, and drive alignment between product plans and operations to support customer commitments and financial targets.
• NPI Phase-Gate Process
• Co-lead the NPI phase-gate process in close partnership with R&D, Program Management, Marketing, Operations, and Quality teams to ensure a unified, cross-functional approach to new product development and launch.
• Identify and improve time-to-market through streamlined launch processes.
• Continuously improve phase-gate effectiveness by incorporating best practices.
• Serve as a key integrator between end market strategy PM teams and NPI execution.

Qualifications :

This position is eligible to receive a target annual cash bonus and long-term incentive package of stock grants based on individual and company performance, in accordance with company policy.

Why Join Bio-Techne :

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.