Senior Finance Business Partner AWC OC

About Us

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 10000 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 atrisk skin to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatecs 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

We devise develop and manufacture innovative products and services that support people with deeply personal and challenging medical conditions helping to improve care for them and giving them greater confidence freedom and mobility.

We are guided by our five core values that shape the way we work every day: Improve Care Deliver Results Grow Together Own It and Do Whats Right.

At Convatec were transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. Were aiming for nothing short of excellence. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Senior Finance Business Partner AWC & OC and youll do the same.

About the Role:

This is a key role within the European Finance team acting as a key business partner to the General Manager for UK Advanced Wound Care (AWC) and UK Ostomy Care (OC) while reporting to Sr Director (Finance Business Partner) for AWC Europe.

You are the primary interface into Finance for the business teams providing insights identifying new opportunities and driving business performance as you support the longterm strategy for the business along with the General Managers for UK AWC and UK OC.

Within Finance you are the business advocate focusing beyond the finance boundaries and leading on crossfunctional collaboration. Key is the overt ownership of relationships with multiple stakeholders consistently building executive confidence by showing yourself to be an expert in the relevant market.

Accountabilities:

You will be vital for delivering sustainable and profitable growth for the UK AWC and OC businesses within Convatec. This would include supporting the leadership team on various growth efficiency and transformation initiatives. Key to delivery within this role will be working directly with the General Managers and other senior leaders setting out and delivering the country strategy and managing country performance over multiple measures through robust balanced scorecard reporting.

In this role you will be supported by colleagues in our FP&A Centre of Excellence and Global Business Services based based in three GBS centers (Lisbon Bogota and Malaysia). We expect you to be a handson business partner with a strategic lens to analyze and decipher business issues.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Deliver sustainable and profitable growth for the business unit Sales / EBIT / and Cash optimization along with the GM for UK AWC and UK OC along with full P&L ownership / responsibility
• Develop clear frameworks on patient modelling lead indicators and competitive benchmarking for the Ostomy Care business.
• Partner the General Managers in development of longterm Strategic Plan and Annual Budgets
• Lead the development and delivery of strategy translation into short medium and longterm financial and nonfinancial targets and KPIs (EBIT revenue growth cash flow)
• Identify potential performance gaps and drive course correction through a balanced scorecard approach for the business
• Partner the supply chain team on developing a robust S&OP framework with support from commercial colleagues
• Drive strategic allocation of resources across channels and ways to improve commercial productivity
• Provide support on developing and tracking Investment initiatives and Product/Market launches. This includes development of business cases and the postevent evaluation of investments
• Identify and utilize market and competitor insights from Sales Force Excellence teams within the BU decision making processes
• Develop frameworks/ models to ensure efficient and effective management of sales and marketing activity including Advertising & Promotions Salesforce Effectiveness and Backorders/Issues
• 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

Principal Contacts:

• UK General Manager for AWC and OC
• UK Commercial Leadership team and European AWC and OC Finance team
• FP&A COE Lead European Finance Controller Tower Leads of Global Business Services

About You:

As a selfstarter 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 goto Finance leader within Europe for the Business Unit.

• You need to have an MBA/CPA or similar qualification with around 1012 years of postqualification experience including the leadership of the Finance function (Finance Director) of a multicountry commercial entity managing a $50100m P&L within the EU markets.
• Commercial acumen / understanding of market drivers and dynamics in Europe
• Demonstrated experience in leading and developing a team of Finance professionals.
• Ideally should have demonstrated experience of driving business turnarounds developed growth strategies and partnered Sales / Commercial Teams in driving return on marketing investments.
• This experience should be ideally in a Pharma / MedTech consumer environment in one of the key European markets
• Should have good interpersonal skills analytical ability and have the gravitas of managing senior business stakeholders.
• Working Knowledge of SAP / Hyperion / Power BI would be an added advantage
• Fluent in English. Knowledge of other European languages would be an added advantage but not essential

Our products make a big difference every day. So will your contribution. The work you do will mean more because itll make things better for your team our business or our customers lives. Itll inspire you to deliver to your very best.

And well be right behind you when you do.

This is a challenge more worthwhile.

This is work thatll move you.

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