# Senior Director, Portfolio Management – GIS

## About the Role

This senior leadership role sits within Olympus’s Gastrointestinal Solutions (GIS) business, a division of approximately $6 billion. It is responsible for leading strategy and financial planning across multiple global business units, bringing Innovation, New Product Development (NPD), Sustaining, and M&A investments into a single portfolio framework.

The position connects corporate strategy, divisional leadership, and global finance. Its core purpose is to turn strategic priorities into quantified, risk-adjusted investment plans that improve capital efficiency, sharpen prioritization, and support both near-term performance and long-term innovation.

The role works closely with the Division Head, the VP of Strategic Portfolio Management & Planning, Corporate Portfolio Management & Planning, Global Finance, and other leadership teams. It also supports executive-level communication and decision-making for senior leaders, investors, and governance bodies.

## Key Responsibilities

– Lead the annual strategy and investment planning cycle for the division, aligning Innovation, NPD, Sustaining, and M&A investments with medium- and long-term growth and profitability goals.
– Own and maintain the divisional strategic and financial planning process in line with corporate standards, including submissions, forecasts, and business plans aligned to the annual SFBP calendar.
– Strengthen portfolio governance by improving visibility into investment allocation and outcomes, and by developing change-management logic, metrics, and supporting data.
– Partner with the Division Head on strategic investment decisions, helping evaluate trade-offs, prioritize funding, and direct limited R&D, engineering, and capital resources to the highest-return opportunities.
– Use ROI, NPV, risk-adjusted measures, and scenario analysis to manage the investment pipeline and balance short-term sales targets with long-term innovation.
– Serve as the bridge between the division and Corporate Portfolio Management & Planning, ensuring process consistency, aligned financial assumptions, and standardized reporting.
– Collaborate with the SIS portfolio management lead on topics that require alignment across divisions.
– Leverage shared functions such as strategy, market insight, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and presentation development to support executable proposals and portfolio analysis.
– Produce dashboards, ROI analysis, and resource utilization reports that show portfolio progress against strategic objectives and compare actuals with plan.
– Support M&A and business development activity by evaluating acquisition and divestiture opportunities and incorporating them into divisional investment and resource plans.
– Maintain high standards for business-case quality, assumption integrity, and risk management across all investment proposals.
– Prepare executive materials and communicate portfolio strategy, financial impact, and scenario analysis to senior leadership, executive officers, GEC, the Board of Directors, investors, and other stakeholders.
– Lead portfolio governance, analysis, and recommendations while recognizing that final investment approval rests with the Division Head and corporate governance bodies.

## Required Skills

– 12+ years of experience in strategy planning or portfolio management within MedTech, healthcare, or life sciences.
– Experience managing complex, multi-year global investment portfolios.
– Strong expertise in financial modeling, strategic planning, and capital allocation.
– Proven ability to communicate persuasively and present with credibility to global senior leadership.
– Experience working in a matrixed multinational environment.
– Professional working ability in both English and Japanese.

## Preferred Skills

– MBA or an advanced degree in business, finance, engineering, or a related field.

## Role Details

– Employment type: Full-time employee.
– Probation period: 3 months, with no change in conditions.
– Location: Global Headquarters, 2951 Ishikawa-cho, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo.
– Additional work locations may include home, the Shinjuku satellite office, the Utsugi site, and external shared offices.
– Working hours: 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a 45-minute lunch break and an 8-hour standard workday.
– Flextime is available with no core hours, except where management-level hiring makes it inapplicable.
– Shorter working hours, telework, and overtime may apply depending on business needs.
– Holidays: 129 annual holidays according to the company calendar.
– Paid leave: 20 days of annual paid leave.
– No smoking on company premises.

## Benefits

– Commuting allowance.
– Remote work allowance.
– Social insurance coverage, including employment, health, pension, nursing care, and workers’ compensation insurance.
– Defined benefit pension plan.
– Defined contribution pension plan.

## Useful Links

– Inclusion: https://www.olympus.co.jp/csr/social/inclusion/japan/?page=csr
– Health Management: https://www.olympus.co.jp/csr/social/health-management/?page=csr
– Benefits: https://www.olympus.co.jp/recruit/workstyle/benefit/

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to shape portfolio strategy for a large global MedTech business with direct exposure to divisional and corporate leadership. It combines long-range investment planning, financial analysis, and governance across Innovation, NPD, Sustaining, and M&A. The position also provides visibility into executive decision-making and requires close collaboration across global functions and business units. If you have deep portfolio management experience and enjoy turning complex trade-offs into clear investment priorities, this is a highly influential role.