Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning

The Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning is a strategic partner to the EVP of Reference Labs, BioAnalytics, Water, LPD (Livestock Poultry Dairy) & IT, supporting a broad portfolio that includes four business lines as well as Information Technology and Information Security.

This role supports the EVP and their leadership team in driving key strategic, operational, and cultural initiatives that enable business growth and transformation. This highly collaborative role is responsible for driving enterprise goal tracking, maintaining alignment on key priorities, and enabling cross-functional initiatives. The Director acts as an integrator and influencer — ensuring clarity, focus, and momentum across the organization.

In This Role, You Will Be Responsible For

Portfolio Productivity and Effectiveness

• Partner with the EVP’s front office (administration, HR, and finance) to increase productivity by driving a cohesive approach to key business activities, including strategic planning, budget development, resource allocation, communications strategy, and stakeholder management
• Create and maintain systems and processes to ensure effective meeting preparation and facilitation, communication of outcomes, and follow through on decisions and actions.
• Develop and manage a disciplined agenda for extended leadership team meetings, townhalls, and offsites; to include topic selection, content management, and tracking and follow up for action items.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement 
  
  

Business Insights, Research and Analytics

• Provide portfolio, business, and sector insights by performing research, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, often in connection with key strategic questions, competitive intelligence gathering, and executive presentations
• Work cross-functionally with key stakeholders and SMEs, playing a key role in collecting, analysing, interpreting, and synthesizing a wide range of internal or external materials, datasets and financial information, to extract and provide valuable insights, recommendations to support decision-making, and shape key messages and relevant content development for leadership communications.
  
  

Enterprise Goal Planning and Performance Review

• Lead and oversee the annual portfolio goal setting process
• Manage and optimize execution, driving rigor around process and timeline, senior leadership alignment, cascaded distribution, and accountability for outcomes
• Manage and prepare annual and quarterly reviews and reporting
  
  

Strategic Initiative Program Management

• Drive key initiatives and programs; holding accountability for the planning and delivery of projects (short and long duration)
• Enable teams to operate effectively, removing barriers and facilitating decision-making, while ensuring business unit and functional leaders retain responsibility for their respective areas
  
  

Event Preparation and Communications

• Ensure that the EVP is briefed, and materials are prepared for a wide range of internal and external stakeholder activities such as board meetings and investor conferences.
• Lead the design, development and preparation of EVP communications, including key messages and presentation materials.
  
  

What You Will Need To Succeed

• Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
• General Business Experience: Wide and deep experience demonstrating expert functional competence (10 years), including roles requiring structured problem‑solving, analytical rigor, and cross‑functional business insight.
• Managerial Experience: Proven experience interpreting strategy and setting/delivering team objectives within medium to long‑term time horizons (5 years), with demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Strategic & Enterprise Exposure: Track record operating in complex, matrixed environments with meaningful responsibility for cross‑functional strategy execution, transformation, or enterprise‑level initiatives
• Proven experience in strategy, operations, or transformation roles within a global, matrixed organization
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives across multiple business units and functions
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including advanced modeling skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, including executive presentation skills
• High integrity, authenticity, and ability to handle sensitive information with discretion
• Collaborative, relationship-oriented, and adept at influencing without direct authority
• Location: It is required that this role be on-site at our corporate HQ in Westbrook, Maine. Please be driving distance to our corporate office. Alternatively, we will consider individuals who are willing to relocate to Maine for this role.
  
  

What You Can Expect From Us

• Base annual salary target: $180000 - 200000 (yes, we do have flexibility if needed)
• Opportunity for annual cash bonus as well as yearly equity award
• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
• 5% matching 401k
• Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!
  
  

Why IDEXX?

We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from diseases. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery.   At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.