Senior Manager, Finance Workforce Planning

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove; US-MN-Arden Hills

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

 

About the role:

At Boston Scientific, we are deeply committed to transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. As our Senior Manager, Workforce Finance Planning, you will lead the financial strategy, planning, and forecasting processes that support a global, integrated workforce planning function.

 

You will partner closely with the HR Workforce Planning Lead, Finance leaders, and stakeholders to align financial planning with workforce planning processes. Together, you will ensure that headcount, labor costs, and personnel-related expenses are forecasted accurately and efficiently, enabling informed decision-making and scalable growth.

 

This highly visible role will shape the future of workforce-related financial planning across Boston Scientific by advancing an enterprise-wide, holistic approach to headcount financial modeling, cost optimization, and long-range workforce investment planning.

 

The Senior Manager, Finance Workforce Planning is a key resource for the build and deployment of a global, integrated, and evolving financial planning capability aligned to workforce strategy. This role enables Finance, HR, and business leaders to deliver accurate forecasts of headcount and personnel expenses in the most efficient and effective ways to invest in talent while meeting business and financial objectives.

 

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Advancing an enterprise-wide workforce financial planning discipline by building and executing a multi-year strategy for headcount and labor cost forecasting in close partnership with the HR Workforce Planning Lead
• Leading the development of standardized financial models for workforce planning, that incorporate business inputs such as revenue forecasts, operational demand, supply chain trends, and leadership assumptions and result in headcount, compensation, benefits, and other personnel-related expenses
• Defining roles and responsibilities across Finance, HR, and business teams to support a high-performing, integrated workforce and financial planning function
• Driving alignment between financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and HR workforce planning cycles
• Leading the integration of financial, headcount, and resource planning tools, processes, and technologies, with keen understanding of upstream and downstream dependencies
• Partnering closely with HR, People Analytics, and Workforce Planning teams to ensure consistent data, assumptions, and insights across financial and workforce plans
• Supporting enterprise decision-making by translating workforce plans into clear financial implications and trade-offs
• Responsible for change management efforts across finance and in partnership with HR in support of new workforce planning processes
• Coordinate efforts and impacts of workforce planning with the EPM ecosystem, including participating in overall ecosystem governance and change control

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related business field
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in a finance leadership role supporting workforce planning, FP&A, or enterprise planning in a global organization — or a Master’s degree with minimum of 5 years' experience
• Demonstrated ability to design, lead, and scale enterprise-level financial planning programs in a large, global environment
• Proven ability to lead te