Director, Portfolio Governance

Director, Portfolio Governance is a strategic leadership role accountable for designing, enabling, and continuously improving the Development governance framework that drives high-quality, timely decision-making across the development portfolio. This role embeds decision excellence, clarity of decision rights, and disciplined execution across the governance forums. The leader ensures decisions are made at the right level, with the right information, at the right time, enabling portfolio trade‑off decisions, reducing cycle time, and improving decision quality and durability.

This role is a hands‑on contributor and people manager responsible for building relationships at all levels of the organization in order to solicit and act on stakeholder input regarding the governance framework. This role will navigate the fast‑paced and agile environment of Regeneron in a collaborative and innovative manner.

Note: this role is an onsite opportunity and is not eligible remote.

A typical day in this role looks like:

• Own and continuously evolve the governance framework to enable effective, scalable decision‑making across the portfolio.
• Establish and enforce decision quality and readiness standards, including clear articulation of options, trade‑offs, risks, and recommendations.
• Where required, facilitate governance forums to ensure structured, decision-focused discussions and clear, actionable outcomes.
• Define and manage governance performance metrics (e.g., decision cycle time, right-first-time decisions, deferrals, forum utilization) to assess effectiveness.
• Translate governance metrics and feedback into actionable insights, driving a closed‑loop continuous improvement model.
• Synthesize governance outputs into portfolio-level insights, identifying cross-program risks, recurring issues, and systemic bottlenecks.
• Establish and maintain centralized decision documentation and knowledge management practices to ensure transparency and traceability.
• Oversee governance intake, prioritization, and scheduling to ensure alignment to strategic importance, while advancing efficient, scalable processes and leveraging technology to streamline execution.
• Drive cross‑forum integration to streamline escalation pathways, eliminate duplication, and improve decision flow.
• Partner closely with senior leaders, governance chairs, and stakeholders to align priorities and reinforce governance expectations.
• Implement governance quality and experience measurement, incorporating multi‑directional feedback from teams, executives, and chairs to improve effectiveness.
• Coach and develop team members ensuring that the organizational strategy delivers the skills, capabilities and processes that enable portfolio delivery are present in his/her team.

This role may be for you if you have:

• Deep understanding of drug development lifecycle and portfolio management.
• Proven experience designing governance frameworks, operating models, or decision‑making processes.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into insights and actions.
• Experience with process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma) preferred.
• Exceptional executive communication and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive change in matrixed environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross‑functional leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high‑performance teams, including direct people management.
• Experience leveraging technology and digital solutions to enable scalable processes, improve efficiency, and enhance decision‑making (e.g., dashboards, workflow tools, analytics platforms).
• Ability to travel (<10%).

Requirements

Minimum: Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, or consulting.

Benefits

Benefits in the U.S. include health and wellness programs (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance), fitness centers, 401(k) company match, family support benefits, equity awards, annual bonuses, paid time off, and paid leaves (military and parental leave). For additional information, refer to the Regeneron rewards page. Benefits in other countries vary by location.

Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, nationality, national or ethnic origin, civil status, age, citizenship status, membership of the Traveler community, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, familial status, marital or registered civil partnership status, pregnancy or parental status, gender identity, gender reassignment, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. The Company will also provide reasonable accommodation to the known disabilities or chronic illnesses of an otherwise qualified applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of the Company’s business.

Salary

$183,100.00 - $305,200.00 annually