Senior Finance Business Partner Global AWC

Rhian_Convatec; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2023 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit Convatec Group.

At Convatec, we’re transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. We’re aiming for nothing short of excellence. Join us as a Senior Finance Business Partner Global AWC, and you’ll do the same.

The Senior Finance Business Partner is a key role within the Advanced Wound Care (AWC) finance team that will act as key business partner to President AWC and the AWC LT (with specific focus on Global Marketing, Strategy, M&A and Commercial Productivity) while reporting to the VP Finance for Advanced Wound Care globally.

You are the primary interface into Finance for the Business, providing insights, identifying opportunities and challenges, supporting long-term strategic planning, evaluating inorganic opportunities, new product innovation business cases and driving commercial productivity for the business.

YOUR ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Partnering with President AWC and VP Finance AWC to deliver sustainable and profitable growth for the Advanced Wound Care (AWC) business unit globally. This would include but not limited to development of strategic plan, drive operating reviews with regional business teams, and work on growth / efficiency transformation initiatives.
2. Working with VP Global Marketing and VP R&D to develop / review of business cases for new product innovations / inorganic opportunities which underpin the future growth for Convatec.
3. Driving Commercial productivity through partnering with VP Sales Force Excellence and Commercial leaders to set clear KPI’s, drive cost consciousness behaviors, identify gap closure opportunities and drive commercial outcomes for the Business Unit.
4. Working directly with senior Business leaders on various projects, strategic thinking of the business direction, and managing BU performance over multiple measures through robust balanced scorecard reporting.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Partner in development and supporting delivery of long-term Strategic Plan and Annual Budgets.
2. Lead the development and delivery of strategy translation into short, medium and long-term financial and non-financial targets and KPIs (EBIT, revenue growth, cash flow).
3. Identify potential performance gaps and drive course correction working with various markets through a balanced scorecard approach for the business.
4. Provide support on developing and tracking Investment initiatives and Product/Market launches. This includes development of business cases, and the post-event evaluation of investments.
5. Drive strategic allocation of resources across countries and identify ways to improve commercial productivity.
6. Drive and explore various organic / inorganic opportunities to drive business growth working closely with VP M&A and VP Global Marketing.
7. Develop and implement Return on Marketing Investment models on Global Marketing and SFE investments working with the FP&A Centre of Excellence.
8. Provide direction and support to GBS and FP&A teams on various activities like month end close, financial analytics etc.
9. Partner with the Investor Relations team to provide narrative and storytelling about BU performance for use in investor communications.
10. As a senior representative in the finance function with deep knowledge of the business unit, support our finance function to grow together by sharing knowledge, with a particular focus on building commercial acumen within our FP&A team.

YOUR PROFILE

As a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit, you apply your strategic thinking skills and growth mindset to drive business turnaround and transformation, consistently challenging the status quo. You foster a mindset of continuous improvement, translating strategies into actions and act as the 'go-to' Finance Partner for the Business Unit.

1. You have an MBA/CPA or similar qualification with around 8-10 years of post-qualification experience on developing long Strategic Plans and driving performance management.
2. Demonstrated experience of working with Marketing and R&D leaders on New Product Launches and evaluation of inorganic opportunities.
3. Ideally you should have demonstrated experience of driving business turnarounds, developed growth strategies and partnered Sales / Commercial Teams in driving return on marketing investments.
4. Work experience should be ideally in a Consumer, Pharma / MedTech, manufacturing environment in one of the large FTSE businesses.
5. You should demonstrate good interpersonal skills, analytical ability and have the gravitas of managing senior business stakeholders.
6. Working Knowledge of SAP / Hyperion / Power BI would be an added advantage.
7. Fluent in English. Knowledge of other European languages would be an added advantage but not essential.

OUR PROMISE

1. the opportunity to work independently in a dynamic and innovative environment.
2. professional onboarding/training.
3. representative work equipment and the possibility to work remotely in a hybrid model.
4. exceptional benefits.

Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be worth it.

This is stepping up to a challenge.

This is work that’ll move you.