Senior Director, R&D Process Excellence

4 weeks ago


Oklahoma City, United States Vontier Full time

We are seeking a strategic and results‑driven leader to maximize the impact of R&D across the enterprise by optimizing processes, aligning initiatives with business strategy, and implementing robust performance measurement frameworks. This role will focus on increasing R&D maturity—particularly within software organizations—by developing governance structures and methodologies to measure and improve ROI while reducing quality issues. This position also serves as a rotational or pathway role toward Functional R&D Leadership, offering significant leadership growth opportunities. Responsibilities: Maximize R&D impact through process optimization, strategic alignment, and performance measurement. Increase maturity in R&D for software organization, create a methodology and governance structure for measuring and improving ROI, reduce quality issues. Maximizing enterprise R&D to deliver results. Develop performance metrics that can be applied across the business for quality, delivery and return on investment. Evaluate and improve R&D processes, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities to work collaboratively. Optimize and deploy toolkits (Scaled Agile) that can be applied into manufacturing and software businesses. Optimize and integrate Lean tools within the Scaled Agile Framework to accelerate adoption of continuous improvement practices across the enterprise. Support business units to prioritize projects via portfolio management, considering an enterprise lens. Align projects with strategy. Report insights to senior leadership. Build and develop a funnel of force multipliers. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field. MBA preferred. 5‑7 years’ experience in R&D Roles with deep understanding of customer and product lifecycle. Proven experience interacting with C‑Suite Executives. Exceptional at leading and effecting change through influence; adept at change management. Strong attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills. In‑depth knowledge of at least one of Vontier’s BUs customers, products, and strategy is a plus. Vontier Corporation and all Vontier Companies are equal‑opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law. The "EEO is the Law" poster is available at: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should call 1-833-399-0822 or e-mail applyassistance@vontier.com to request accommodation. #J-18808-Ljbffr



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