Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

When you are at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 80,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

How Will You Make an Impact?

The Sr. Manager of Growth Protection Separation (GPS) Finance is responsible for driving organic growth, profitability and accountability across the GPS businesses. This role has overall stewardship of a $0.6B+ business in partnership with the General Manager/Vice President. This role involves identifying and driving the levers of growth, coordinating factory capacity and driving accountability on price/mix. 

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Any or all of the following will be included in the scope of this position depending on the individual selected and the balance of work needed.

• Partner to the VP/General Manager in the management of the business, including evaluating and approving:
  • Business opportunities, including Commercial quotes and Strategic Partnerships
  • New product development cases
  • Pricing strategies and product positioning
  • Headcount and other investment proposals
  • Improve evaluation techniques to prioritize R&D budget across the division.
• Partner with the Operations Finance teams to plan factory capacity and inventory in-sync with product mix and growth targets. Work with Manufacturing operations and provide input to SIOP to run capacity based on Commercial forecasts.
• Partner with Commercial teams from Americas, EMEA and APAC to deliver the organic growth targets for the various business segments
• Provide insights on drivers of growth and risk/opportunities based on, backlog, pipeline, market data and factory capacity trending.
• Review and construct analysis to measure the margin-mix and price performance of CTT business. Make meaningful recommendations to drive profitability via favorable mix and incremental price. Drive accountability for margin expansion via price-mix.

Preferred characteristics:

• The successful candidate is collaborative, highly ethical  
• Excellent proactive communication capabilities, identifying and addressing issues
• Track record of developing high levels of credibility and forging solid and positive professional relationships with subordinates, peers and upper management and can operate optimally in a matrix reporting structure
• Experience in commercial elements of a product based business with demonstrated experience collaborating with business leaders
• Strong understanding of the interdependencies of customer fulfilment, inventory, and manufacturing volumes. 
• Ability to coach and collaborate with various functional staff
• Possess strong leadership and team building skills
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Self-motivated with high bias for action and accountability
• High level of energy; can bring a passion to excel.  Able to energize and influence a wide spectrum of people, including senior financial and operations professionals. 
• Ability to balance priorities in a global business environment
• Drives a culture of accountability

Job Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting is required; an MBA or CPA is preferred
• Minimum 5 (five) years of related professional experience
• An ideal candidate will possess excellent academic credentials and a strong proficiency in financial analysis   
• Experience in the Life Sciences industry is desired
• Experience in a global manufacturing organization is desired  
• Master of Excel (i.e., financial models and analysis), Cognos reporting tool (or equivalent), PowerPoint, and Hyperion is preferred

Benefits:

• “We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, 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.”

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

• “Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation