Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as a market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

We are looking for a Global Lead, R&D Portfolio and Funnel Management to define and govern the global R&D portfolio strategy, align product roadmaps, investment decisions and resource capacity to ensure the highest-value innovation initiatives are prioritized and executed effectively across the organization.

What you will do

Strategic Portfolio and Scenario Planning

• Develop and continuously refine the global medium and long-term R&D portfolio strategy with investment simulations

• Establish a medium-to-long-term product roadmap aligned with business needs, ensuring prioritized opportunities across functions and seamless alignment between strategy and execution

• Ensure portfolio composition reflects the optimal balance of innovation and sustaining engineering

• Portfolio and scenario planning - creating, evaluating, and comparing multiple projects or investment options to recommend the best path forward.

Global Capacity and Funnel Governance

• Develop and maintain global capacity planning frameworks across R&D domains

• Facilitate cross domain resource alignment between Project Management Office (PMO) organizations

• Ensure funnel overview with transparency, identify bottlenecks, forecast future constraints, and propose mitigation strategies.

• Include risk, timeline and value in the overview, track progress and changes

• Ensure that roadmap overviews are always up to date with R&D and MKT

• Preparing and leading funnel decision meetings.

Global PMO and Governance Alignment

• Align methodologies, reporting standards and governance structures across domains

• Drive continuous improvement of project tracking and reporting systems with domain PMOs.
  

What you bring

Experience

• Master's degree in Engineering, Technology Management, Business Administration or equivalent

• 10+ years of experience in Strategic Portfolio Management

• Experience in resource planning and capacity governance

• Portfolio Management certification is desirable

• Knowledge of regulatory framework in Medical Device industry would be advantageous.

Personal competencies

• Experience in global project and program management

• Experience leading leaders or senior specialists in matrix structures

• Ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder governance structures.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.