Thermo Fisher Scientific
Director - Commercial Finance - Join a $40B Industry Leader - Fortune 200!
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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.
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
Education and Experience
- 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
- Approximately 10-20% travel
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
- Less than 25% domestic/international travel required
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $160,100.00–$213,400.00.This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Office
168 Third Avenue, Waltham, MA, United States
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