Director, Innovation

• Drive innovation across a significant landscape, concentration area, or horizontal capability
• Own and oversee a portfolio of innovation opportunities
• Lead identification, shaping, prioritisation, and progression of high-value opportunities
• Maintain continuity of value propositions from exploration through validation, transition, and adoption
• Partner with business, digital, data, technology, and delivery leaders
• Act as the primary senior interface between innovation and downstream execution teams
• Guide portfolio prioritisation and investment trade-offs
• Ensure opportunities have robust evidence, clear assumptions, and well-defined value propositions
• Contribute to governance, portfolio reviews, and investment decision-making
• Shape innovation direction across people, process, and technology perspectives
• Support long-term strategic planning and future innovation priorities
• Identify patterns, dependencies, risks, and emerging opportunities
• Oversee development and communication of the enterprise innovation story
• Partner with commercial, strategy, and communications teams to position innovation capabilities and initiatives
• Represent the organization internally and externally in strategic discussions, industry engagement, client interactions, and thought leadership
• Integrate internal and external perspectives to shape portfolio choices and business outcomes

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years’ experience leading innovation, transformation, strategy, product discovery, or technology-enabled business initiatives
• Experience leading large-scale or enterprise-level portfolios, strategic initiatives, or cross-functional innovation programs
• Demonstrated success shaping and progressing high-impact innovation opportunities through structured discovery, validation, and transition activities
• Experience influencing senior and executive stakeholders within matrixed organizations
• Strong leadership experience across cross-functional business, digital, data, and technology environments
• Experience representing innovation initiatives in senior governance forums, strategic planning discussions, or external industry settings
• Strong strategic leadership and innovation management capabilities
• Deep understanding of innovation, experimentation, and evidence-based investment approaches
• Ability to shape and prioritise high-value innovation opportunities in ambiguous and evolving environments
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across senior business and technology leadership
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how innovation supports growth, differentiation, and competitive positioning
• Strong communication and storytelling capabilities for executive, client, and external audiences
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities
• Understanding of emerging technologies, digital transformation, and innovation trends relevant to clinical research and healthcare
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across global and cross-functional teams

• Fully remote work arrangement