
Director, Innovation Program Management
- Indianapolis, IN
- $118,300-185,900 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Strategic Leadership:
- Own and manage Delta Faucet Company’s Advanced Development Stage-Gate process.
- Define and implement the program management strategy for the Innovation Lab.
- Serve as a thought partner to innovation, engineering, design, and marketing leaders.
- Program Execution:
- Lead a portfolio of innovation programs, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery.
- Establish and maintain program governance, reporting, and risk management frameworks.
- Drive agile and iterative development practices to accelerate learning and reduce time to market.
- Team Development:
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of supply chain analysts to support program execution.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Engagement:
- Act as the primary liaison between the Innovation Lab and key internal/external stakeholders.
- Communicate program status, risks, and opportunities to executive leadership.
- Innovation Enablement:
- Champion new tools, processes, and metrics that enhance innovation delivery.
- Support early-stage experimentation, prototyping, and pilot programs.
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years related/meaningful work experience
- Excellent facilitation, organizational and follow-through skills; able to prioritize, drive accountability and lead many simultaneous tasks and priorities
- Proven experience in building and leading diverse teams
- High detail orientation with the ability to see the big picture
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills
- Subject matter expertise for EPMO, prioritization tools, project management tool and process improvement methodologies
- Culture: Recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal opportunities to work on projects cross-company.
- Social Impact: Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups; Paid volunteer day annually; Employees share their time, skills and talent with charities and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the globe.