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At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont.

What You’ll Do

• Lead transformation initiatives that improve how innovation is planned, executed, and scaled across R&D and innovation organizations.
• Drive adoption of digital, data, analytics, AI-enabled, and process capabilities that enhance innovation effectiveness and business outcomes.
• Partner with business, technical, and functional leaders to implement new operating models, governance approaches, innovation processes, and ways of working.
• Influence and align stakeholders across a complex global organization to accelerate organizational readiness, capability development, and sustainable adoption.
• Design and execute transformation strategies including stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, leadership alignment, and adoption planning.
• Build and enable change champion networks and leadership communities that reinforce new behaviors and sustain momentum.
• Establish metrics and feedback mechanisms to measure adoption, capability maturity, value realization, and transformation impact.
• Identify organizational barriers and develop practical solutions that improve engagement, accelerate implementation, and increase business value.
• Coach leaders and project teams to successfully lead transformation efforts while building lasting organizational capability.
• Capture, scale, and institutionalize best practices that improve innovation productivity and operational excellence across the enterprise.

What We’re Looking ForRequired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, with experience in innovation, R&D, or technology-driven environments.
• 5+ years of experience leading digital, innovation, or business transformation initiatives, with demonstrated success driving enterprise-wide or cross-functional change within large, matrixed organizations.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse stakeholder groups without direct authority, leveraging strong communication, facilitation, consulting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of organizational change, transformation, and adoption methodologies, with experience developing and executing strategies that drive measurable capability growth, adoption, and business performance improvements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data, metrics, and insights to guide decisions, measure impact, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting R&D, engineering, product development, innovation, or other technology-intensive organizations, with an understanding of how technical work is translated into business value.
• Experience implementing AI, advanced analytics, digital, portfolio management, or knowledge management capabilities to improve innovation effectiveness, productivity, or decision-making.
• Demonstrated success connecting transformation initiatives to measurable business outcomes, including growth, innovation productivity, speed-to-market, operational performance, or capability development.

DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

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DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.