Sr. Director, Commercial FP&A

Solenis is a leading global producer of specialty chemicals focused on delivering sustainable solutions for water-intensive industries, including consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets. Owned by Platinum Equity, the company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, and cleaners and disinfectants, as well as state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments.  

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 69 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over 16,100 professionals in 130 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2024 US Best Managed Company, recognized fouryears in a row. For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com. 

Solenis is seeking an experienced leader for the newly created position of Senior Director, Commercial FP&A.  This position will lead a team of 7 directors/associate directors and their teams in support of Solenis’ Commercial objectives, including but not limited to pricing execution, volume growth, mix enhancement, margin expansion and Operating Profit management.  This position is highly visible in the organization and has excellent growth potential for motivated candidates. 

The ideal candidate has a history of leading Financial Planning and Analysis (or similar) teams, and utilizes a data driven approach to help the Business execute on its financial objectives.   The position owns the operating plan, forecast, and strategic planning processes for the area of focus, and must possess critical thinking skills to understand and influence the contents, assumptions, and rationale behind financial projections.  Additionally, the incumbent will lead the Commercial organization in terms of defining, tracking, and improving performance on key growth metrics.  The candidate will also be responsible for development and maintenance of materials for the C-Suite and Board of Directors.

This includes communicating results, bridging actuals versus plan/forecast/prior year, price/volume/mix analysis, and identifying gaps in performance.  This position will strategically partner with Business Leaders and will work closely with the Sr. Director of Operations FP&A, the Controller, and other key Finance leaders.  It is critical that the incumbent is capable of building strong relationships and trust with Finance and non-Finance leaders within the organization.  Finally, this position requires knowledge of financial systems and consolidation systems to drive speed, automation, and condense detailed forecasts/budgets/actuals into actionable outputs. 

Responsibilities Include the Following

• Ownership of monthly reporting process for sales through Direct Operating Profit, including segmentation of product lines, markets, corporate accounts, etc.
• Analytics to support internal growth initiatives, monthly insights, and performance management
• Drive the annual planning, forecast, and strategic planning processes for the Commercial Organization
• Partner with Operations FP&A to fully connect supply / demand
• Support potential Mergers and Acquisitions
• Process Improvement, Ad Hoc analysis, and Business Decision Support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business Administration, or another relevant field
• 10+ years of professional work experience ideally including P&L management, business partnership, and planning/analysis of actual results
• Strong communication skills, able to distill messages to critical action items
• Business Partner mentality, helping internal customers achieve their critical objectives
• Strong decision-making skills, using data driven insights
• Capable of leading an international team of directors, managers, and analysts
• Develop, mentor, and train employees
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time (both domestic and international)

#LI-Hybrid

We