Director, Finance (Manufacturing) - Join a $40B Industry Leader

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams are important to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives.

How you will make an impact:

The Clinical Diagnostics Division (CDD) seeks to be our customers’ most trusted partner, by providing innovative diagnostic solutions that improve patient outcomes. 

The division is seeking an expert multifaceted Business Unit Finance Director for our Clinical Diagnostics Reagents (CDR) BU. The business is global and has US-based team spanning seven direct and indirect reports to provide FP&A, factory operations, commercial and controllership ownership for the business. This global role includes full P&L management and directly supports the VP/GM of the business unit. This role is ideal for a leader seeking an impactful high visibility role getting results and business transformation passionate about driving profitability and customer satisfaction. 

Discover Impactful Work: 

• Actively drive BU performance towards goals via strong business partnership and practical data-backed insight 

• Drive AOP / QBR / Strategic planning, in a matrixed financial environment, ensuring financial decisions support company STRAP / AOP and current market environments 

• Ensure strong financial controls, compliance, and timely and accurate financial reporting including an emphasis on manufacturing profitability 

• Build and develop an impactful finance team passionate about results and partnership 

• Provide input to commercial finance activities including deal quoting and reviews 

• Provide valuable decision support, via comprehensive business analysis and models tied to meaningful financial and operational metrics that lead to accurate decision-making 

• Ability to translate financial and non-financial revenue and marketing metrics into meaningful operating plans to support commercial leaders in driving the business 

• Identify and drive financial improvement operational in key operational areas including manufacturing absorption 

• Optimally communicate financial results to broader organization and senior leadership, draw insight from analysis and develop compelling, synthesized recommendations 

• Development of commercial proposals highlighting commercial risk and potential 

 
Keys to Success: 

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10 + years of finance experience in progressive finance in complex global organizations
•  7+ years of management experience
•  CPA, CMA, MBA desired by not mandatory.

Experience:

• Strong preference for life sciences or diagnostics proven experience, especially with contract manufacturing environment 

• Strong finance acumen

• Prior experience in a global company and matrixed organization 

• Proficient at understanding and proactively presenting the financial implications of business decisions and multifaceted 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities 

• Demonstrated experience applying curiosity to uncover insights and differentiated outcomes where others could not 

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