Senior Specialist, 2025 Finance MBA Rotation Program

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Position Description:

Senior Specialist, Finance MBA Rotation Program

Our Company is committed to developing future leaders through its Finance MBA Rotation Program. Through a two-year rotation, the program provides emerging talent with the opportunity to gain a breadth of experience and to build and enhance leadership skills required to succeed as future enterprise leaders. The program is primarily located at our NJ and PA locations, with potential for other domestic locations or international opportunities where mutually desirable.  Additionally, senior management exposure, mentoring, networking and other learning and development experiences are incorporated throughout the program.             

Program Overview & Responsibilities 

Our Company's Finance plays an integral role in supporting the men and women who develop, produce and commercialize our products every day. Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.  

Roles within the MBA Rotation Program may include, but are not limited to, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing operating results; operational risk management and process improvement consulting; managing capital structure, currency and other financial risks; analyzing business strategies and capital investments; or other roles across our Company's finance and global support functions, including procurement and global supplier management.    

Upon completion of the two-year program, participants will apply for their post-rotation role where selection is based on performance, business need and mutual interest, where possible. 

As part of the MBA Rotation Program, you will gain the opportunity to innovate in a changing world through: 

• EXPERIMENTING – We challenge the way we work every day as our Senior Leaders are committed to continually evaluating new ways of working through ideation and experimentation. Individuals will be part of a culture where every experiment is accepted and taken as a lesson learned. 

• EMPOWERING – You will learn how to evaluate business operations and processes to effectively complete day to day responsibilities and challenge the current ways of working.   Individuals are empowered to develop their skill set through a breadth of experience across corporate and client facing roles.  

• NETWORKING – We will empower you to grow your personal experience through a plethora of opportunities. Individuals will have opportunities to attend lunch and learn presentations with senior leaders, to participate in formal trainings and mentor programs and to get involved with various activities with other colleagues across the organization.  

• SHARING – We work to break down silos and share our knowledge to better connect people and data. Individuals will be challenged to critically problem solve, act as trusted advisors, and utilize data & analytic applications to provide business insights.  
   

• LEARNING – Our rotation program takes pride in formal training, on the job learning, formal performance evaluations through real time feedback and independent learning to create a learning culture that is a continuous journey, not a destination.  

This is a full-time position starting in July 2025. 

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Candidates must have an MBA in Finance by May of 2025.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional work experience.

• Demonstration of integrity within a professional work environment 

• Passion for our Company’s mission of saving and improving lives    

• Dedication to teamwork  

• Demonstrated leadership ability                                     

• Passion and commitment to learning                                                     

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills                                                       

• Ability to self-motivate and take responsibility for personal growth and development                   

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact effectively with client and business process owners  

• Excellent written and oral communication skills to effectively and creatively communicate across various stakeholders using compelling story-telling capability 

• Ability to have a global mindset and work across boundaries  

Eligibility to work in the US on a permanent basis. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.                                                         

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders).  Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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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, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or 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.

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