Finance Director, Global Vaccines

Job Description

Position Description:

Finance Director, Global Vaccines

The Director is a member of the Finance team providing Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and strategic advisement to our Company's Human Health Marketing organization.

The Director is responsible for forecasting, budgeting, S&OP, life cycle management, financial evaluation, and business development activity for their business area. The director partners closely with cross functional teams, including commercial, research, manufacturing, legal, compliance and corporate teams to identify, evaluate and execute strategic opportunities.

The Director will develop a deep understanding of their business area and their strategic contribution to the broader Company enterprise. A successful candidate will have an intrinsic curiosity about the healthcare industry, a dedication to serving customers, a passion for learning, and an eagerness to collaborate in solving complex business challenges. The position requires an enterprise mindset, effective communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to navigate across a broad network of stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead FP&A activities, including financial functional support to external partnerships

• Provide strategic and financial insight on key business decisions and new initiatives; develop, evaluate, and present business cases to senior leaders

• Partner with commercial, manufacturing, research and finance colleagues across the enterprise to drive analytics that optimize capacity, pipeline and commercial investments

• Lead a team of two finance professionals and build talent within the team, providing guidance and feedback to support team members’ development goals

This position is aligned to the HPV and Early Stage Vaccines commercial franchise.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Required Experience and Skills:

• At least 5 years in a finance role providing direct support to internal business customers (e.g, Marketing, Manufacturing, Research).

• Minimum of 10 years in the pharmaceutical, technology, marketing, or sales industries

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• MBA, CPA or other Master’s/PhD in Business, Finance or Engineering

• Strong compliance focus, financial acumen / modelling skills, analytical skills, and knowledge of finance systems and planning and reporting processes

• Sound and balanced judgment, with the ability to assess and manage risk and quickly drive decisions

• Demonstrated ability to provide strategic guidance for evolving operating models

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to build diverse peer and client relationships and influence outcomes (both vertically and horizontally)

• Strong people management experience, building, managing and motivating teams in a challenging and complex environment

• Passion and intellectual curiosity with respect to healthcare industry

• Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry  

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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