What You'll Be Contributing: - Manage the innovation portfolio, providing visibility into project status, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, budgets, and overall portfolio health.
- Support innovation initiatives through the different phases of the Innovation Execution process, ensuring key deliverables, reviews, decisions, and documentation are completed.
- Define and track KPIs and portfolio health indicators, and develop scorecards and models to support project and investment decisions.
- Develop business cases, value propositions, market analyses, and commercial feasibility assessments for prospective innovation projects and partnerships.
- Assess market potential, competitive positioning, commercial viability, and market-readiness requirements to support investment and go/no-go decisions.
- Coordinate phase-gate preparation and executive review materials, bringing together business, technical, financial, commercial, and risk considerations.
- Provide project and program coordination across the portfolio, including schedules, action tracking, status reporting, and cross-functional follow-up.
- Track project spending against approved budgets and forecasts and identify variances or gaps requiring follow-up.
- Maintain reliable portfolio documentation and coordinate project handoffs to downstream teams.
- Partner with the Institutional Grants & Partnerships Manager to align business cases and commercial assumptions with external funding strategies.
- Monitor relevant market and competitive trends and share insights that may influence portfolio priorities and commercialization opportunities.
- Identify portfolio risks, gaps, competing priorities, and incomplete requirements, ensuring appropriate visibility and follow-up.
What Sets You Apart: - University degree in Business, Commerce, Engineering, Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Typically 5+ years of relevant experience in program or portfolio management, business analysis, commercialization, product management, or a related field, ideally within an R&D or innovation environment.
- Demonstrated experience developing business cases, market analyses, and feasibility assessments to support investment or go/no-go decisions.
- Working knowledge of project and portfolio management practices, including schedules, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies, and status reporting.
- Experience tracking project budgets, forecasts, and purchasing or procurement activities.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate technical, financial, and market information into clear business cases and decision-making materials.
- Strong Microsoft 365 skills, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint; experience with project or portfolio management tools is an asset.
- Strong organizational and stakeholder coordination skills, with excellent attention to detail, judgement, and follow-through.
- English required; French proficiency is considered an asset.
What's In it For You: - Comprehensive health benefits that ensure you and your family are covered for a wide range of medical needs.
- Health Spending Account (HSA).
- Employer-matched RRSP Program.
- Paid Floater Days.
- Our head office will soon relocate to a new, state-of-the-art facility in LaSalle, near the Lachine Canal. Designed to set new standards in sustainability, it reflects our commitment to responsible growth and innovation.
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