Director Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, and Process Excellence

Entegris is seeking a Director Innovation Portfolio Strategy Process Excellence to join our MS Business Operations team. The preferred location for this position will be onsite at a Materials Solutions divisional hub in one of the following locations : Aurora IL; Burnet TX; Danbury CT; Taiwan. Remote with travel will be considered for the right candidate.

As the Director of Innovation Portfolio Strategy & Process Excellence you will serve as a strategic leader focused on evaluating the effectiveness of innovation investments across the division. Partnering closely with R&D product development and business unit leaders you will develop and apply robust models to assess the ROI risk and long-term value of initiatives. Your core mission is to ensure that the division is investing its dollars most effectively by providing data-driven insights that guide resource allocation portfolio prioritization and strategic decision-making.

You will lead divisionlevel Innovation portfolio management by setting strategic direction establishing a scalable and rigorous management process and ensuring clear communication strong organizational discipline and effective decisionmaking across the portfolio. You will lead efforts that enable profitable growth for the division by aligning industry and customer roadmaps to business strategy and opportunities. From there you will monitor the ongoing health of the portfolio to ensure the division is on target to meet our long-term goals. This role requires a unique blend of corporate insight business and financial acumen strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration to ensure efforts are aligned with business growth and value creation.

You will be responsible for refining our development process to make certain it is effective and efficient for all not only our development team but all of our team members across the organization. Through strong cross-functional collaboration and change management this role will lead the rollout of development process improvements to drive effective adoption and meaningful organizational value.

This role answers the question: As a division are we investing our innovation dollars most effectively As a division are we focused on the right areas for strategic growth where we can have long term competitive differentiation How can we develop products that have long term commercial strength

What Youll Do:

• Own the ongoing development of the Innovation stage gate process at the divisional level ensuring it is efficient and effective
• Lead change management efforts and facilitate necessary training of the Innovation process(es).
• Lead Division-level portfolio management that ties together industry and customer roadmaps with business strategy.
• Develop and evaluate models (cost of ownership business cases forecasts etc) to make strategic recommendations on growth initiatives.
• Build strong collaborative working relationships with key functional partners to ensure appropriate prioritization support and resources to successfully execute business strategy.
• Define sustainable key performance indicators (KPIs) to track success in all areas such as portfolio management and profit center reviews.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of functional areas such as R&D Engineering Finance Fab Technologies Manufacturing Legal and Supply Chain to accomplish business objectives.

What We Seek

• A Strategic Thinker- Someone who can develop and execute a strategy from start to finish
• A Learning Mindset - Someone who is skilled or developing skills in AI tools (Copilot Agent development) that improve efficiency
• A Leader - Ability to establish clear direction and set priorities. A strong listener with the ability to energize others. An effective communicator with capability to influence across functional and regional areas. Someone who is humble results-oriented and eager to learn and contribute
• A Process Expert with expert-level knowledge of stage gate NPI processes and the ability to conduct cross functional gate reviews
• A Project Manager- Strong project management skills including but not limited to risk assessment and mitigation conflict management meeting management task management stakeholder management & project closure
• Strong Financial and Business Financial acumen Understanding of P&L Risk assessment decision making strategic/systems mindset experience with return on investmentmodels
• Customer Focus - Strong customer orientation and understanding of the application passion for building relationships effective at influencing the customer with experience of direct customer communication
• Experience managing/developing new product development programs for semiconductor fabrication consumables is required
• Technical proficiency in Copilot Excel and PowerPoint ; SAP BPC and/or OneStream a plus; Proficient to advanced knowledge of PowerBI is a plus; or managing dashboard development/automation
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives or projects with cross-functional team members; Comfortable dealing with a high degree of ambiguity and working through issues.
• Education - Bachelors Degree in Chemistry Chemical Engineering Materials Science or related degree/discipline is required; advanced degree preferred; industry proven Financial acumen
• Experience - Minimum 10 years experience
• Ability to travel 10-25% of the time; this will be more if new hire is based remotely

Why Work at Entegris

Lead. Inspire. Innovate. Define Your Future.Not everyone who works for a global company shares the same backgroundexperiences and perspectives. We leverage the differences of our employees tobringnew ideas to the table. Every employee throughout the company isencouraged to share input on projects and initiatives. Our decision-makingprocess is truly a collaborative effort as we realize there are leaders at everylevel of the organization. We put our values at the core of how we operate as anorganization not just when its convenient but in a lasting and meaningfulway. We want the time and energy you spend here to have a positive impact onyour life inside and outside of the office.

WhatWeOffer

Ourtotalrewardspackagegoesaboveandbeyondjustapaycheck.Whetheryoure looking to build your career improve your health or protect your wealth we offer generous benefits to help you achieve your goals.

• Compensation: $185000 - $245000 year range with actual pay dependent on candidate overall skills for the role

• Generous401(K)planwithanimpressiveemployermatch

• Excellenthealthdentalandvisioninsurancepackagestofityourneeds

• Flexibleworkscheduleand11paidholidaysayear

• Paidtimeoff(PTO)policythatempowersyoutotakethetimeyouneedtorecharge

• Educationassistancetosupportyourlearningjourney

• Values-drivenculturewithcolleaguesthatrallyaroundPeopleAccountabilityCreativityandExcellence

Entegris does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role ifyou willneed Entegris immigration sponsorship (e.g. H1B TN STEM OPT etc.) now or in the future.

At Entegris we are committed to providing equal opportunitytoall employees and applicants. Our policy is to recruit hire train and reward employees for their individual abilities achievements and experience without regard to race color religion sexual orientation age national origin disability marital or military status.

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