Director - Commercial Finance

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Waltham, MA

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About The Position

Proteomic Sciences is a Business unit within the Life Sciences group with a mission to Accelerate the field of proteomics to reveal the truth of human disease as researchers’ preferred next-generation proteomics platform partner enabling a complete solution enabling a seamless customer journey from discovery to clinical decision-making. The business offers an unmatched high-multiplex technique to identify actionable biomarkers, with a strong focus on the human plasma proteome serving customers across Pharmaceutical, Academic and large scale population research. Proteomic Sciences is a global business headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden and the with North America headquarters in Boston, MA. Lead a team in developing commercial success for our global sales and marketing teams. Based in Waltham, MA, this opportunity allows you to support senior leaders through impactful activities that have a significant influence on our diverse customers. Your leadership will be vital in advancing our proteomic sciences division, handling budgeting, forecasting, and providing essential financial oversight. This position acts as the key business partner for the Sales, Support, Marketing, and Product Management Organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or Finance field
• 10+ years of relevant working experience
• Significant experience leading commercial finance or FP&A teams with strong financial acuity
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to optimally communicate complex topics, navigate ambiguity, and influence through recommendations
• Ability to articulate and demonstrate knowledge of key profit drivers for the business; understand market forces and their impact on future business prospects
• Challenge assumptions and identify value creation opportunities
• Effective communication abilities and experience within a matrixed working environment
• Continuous Improvement: Identify process and control gaps and champion improvement initiatives through Practical Process Improvement (PPI)
• Exhibit leadership, initiative, and the Thermo Fisher Scientific 4-I values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement

Responsibilities

• Provide the financial leadership required to define, plan and successfully implement the commercial strategy
• Partner with the Commercial leaders to challenge and guide the best allocation of available resources, encouraging the adoption of a process improvement approach
• Be a trusted business partner by crafting commercial and impactful solutions and providing challenge and valuable insight
• Ability to translate financial and non-financial revenue and marketing metrics into meaningful operating plans to support commercial leaders in driving the business forward
• Review large and complex commercial proposals and assess commercial risk
• Drive the future of analytics and associated organizational change within the commercial and finance teams, through storytelling with data, automation, and dashboards
• Lead on change needed to best support the commercial organization (go to market, integrations, channel expansions)
• Lead, develop, and encourage your team to meet the business and finance objectives

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Annual incentive plan bonus
• Healthcare
• A range of employee benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees