Director - Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, and Process Excellence

Role Description

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. 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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• A Process Expert: 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 risk assessment and mitigation, conflict management, meeting management, task management, stakeholder management, and project closure.
• Strong Financial and Business Financial acumen: Understanding of P&L, risk assessment, decision making, strategic/systems mindset, experience with return on investment models.
• 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: Bachelor’s 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.

Benefits

• Compensation: $185,000 - $245,000 year range with actual pay dependent on candidate overall skills for the role.
• Generous 401(K) plan with an impressive employer match.
• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance packages to fit your needs.
• Flexible work schedule and 11 paid holidays a year.
• Paid time off (PTO) policy that empowers you to take the time you need to recharge.
• Education assistance to support your learning journey.
• Values-driven culture with colleagues that rally around People, Accountability, Creativity, and Excellence.