Director, Innovation in Brazil at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Innovation based in Brazil.

This is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for driving innovation across a significant business landscape and shaping a portfolio of high-impact opportunities.
You will translate strategic priorities into focused innovation initiatives with clear value propositions, evidence, and measurable outcomes.
The role works across business, digital, data, technology, and operational functions in a global, matrixed environment.
You will guide opportunities from early discovery and experimentation through validation, investment decisions, and transition toward implementation.
A key focus will be balancing emerging opportunities with the scaling of validated concepts while maintaining strategic alignment.
You will also help shape the organization’s innovation narrative for executives, clients, partners, and external audiences.
This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise transformation and accelerate meaningful operational, commercial, and customer outcomes.

• Lead innovation across a significant business landscape, capability, or strategic area, translating organizational priorities into clear direction, focus, and measurable outcomes.

• Own and oversee a portfolio of innovation opportunities, ensuring prioritization, coherence, and alignment with strategic and commercial objectives.

• Identify, shape, prioritize, and progress high-value opportunities through structured discovery, experimentation, validation, and transition activities.

• Maintain clear value propositions and strategic intent throughout the innovation lifecycle, ensuring continuity as opportunities move toward implementation.

• Partner with senior leaders across business, digital, data, technology, product, and operations to align priorities and enable effective progression of initiatives.

• Serve as a senior bridge between innovation teams and downstream execution functions, ensuring validated propositions transition effectively without losing their strategic purpose.

• Guide portfolio prioritization and investment trade-offs, balancing exploration of emerging opportunities with scaling of validated concepts.

• Ensure innovation opportunities are supported by robust evidence, clearly defined assumptions, and compelling value propositions to inform investment decisions.

• Contribute to governance, portfolio reviews, strategic planning, and investment decision-making activities.

• Identify dependencies, risks, market patterns, and emerging opportunities that can influence broader portfolio and enterprise innovation strategies.

• Shape and communicate a compelling innovation narrative across executive, internal, client, partner, and external industry audiences.

• Partner with commercial, strategy, and communications stakeholders to position innovation capabilities, initiatives, and thought leadership effectively.

• Represent the innovation function in strategic discussions, industry engagements, client interactions, governance forums, and thought leadership activities.

• Apply deep innovation expertise and external perspectives to shape portfolio choices, business outcomes, and long-term capability development.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; an advanced degree such as an MBA or MS is preferred.

• 10+ years of experience leading innovation, transformation, strategy, product discovery, technology-enabled business initiatives, or related strategic programs.

• Proven experience leading large-scale or enterprise-level portfolios, strategic initiatives, or cross-functional innovation programs.

• Demonstrated success in shaping and progressing high-impact opportunities through structured discovery, experimentation, validation, and transition.

• Strong strategic leadership and innovation management capabilities, with a deep understanding of experimentation and evidence-based investment approaches.

• Ability to prioritize high-value opportunities and make sound decisions in ambiguous, evolving, and complex environments.

• Experience influencing senior and executive stakeholders within matrixed organizations and across business and technology functions.

• Strong leadership experience spanning business, digital, data, technology, product, and operational environments.

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how innovation can support growth, differentiation, customer value, and competitive positioning.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing, negotiation, and communication skills.

• Exceptional storytelling capabilities, with the ability to communicate innovation strategies, opportunities, and outcomes to executive, client, and external audiences.

• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to balance long-term strategic thinking and practical portfolio execution.

• Understanding of emerging technologies, digital transformation, and innovation trends relevant to healthcare and clinical research environments.

• Experience representing innovation initiatives in governance forums, strategic planning discussions, or external industry settings.

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills and comfort collaborating across global, cross-functional teams.

• Fully remote work model in Brazil.

• Full-time employment.

• Opportunity to operate in a global, cross-functional environment.

• Exposure to large-scale innovation, digital transformation, healthcare, and technology initiatives.

• Senior-level visibility and the opportunity to influence strategic and enterprise-wide decisions.

• Collaboration with business, product, digital, data, technology, and operational leadership.

• Opportunity to shape innovation portfolios, investment priorities, and long-term transformation strategies.

• Participation in external industry engagement and thought leadership initiatives.

• Accessibility and reasonable accommodation support throughout the recruitment and employment process.