Job Purpose

The Vice President of Research Operations provides strategic and operational leadership across the organization’s global research ecosystem. This role oversees multiple research functions -including partnerships, grants, compliance, and strategic research initiatives - ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide objectives and innovation priorities.

Operating as part of the executive leadership team and serving on the IOG Operating Council, the VP defines and drives the organization’s research operations strategy, ensuring that all programs are efficiently executed, ethically governed, and effectively funded. This leader is both a strategic builder and an operator, defaulting to collaboration and actively reducing organizational silos. This includes developing a sustainable research funding framework, fostering high-value academic and industry partnerships, and optimizing operational processes that enable world-class scientific outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

Define and lead the overall research operations strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise vision and long-term innovation goals.
Drive operational excellence across all research programs, fostering efficiency, scalability, and impact.
Develop multi-year strategic plans for research funding, partnership growth, and resource allocation.

Research Partnership & Grant Strategy

Oversee a global portfolio of research partnerships with universities, government agencies, industry consortia, and innovation bodies.
Lead enterprise-wide grant management and funding acquisition, ensuring diversification of research revenue streams.