Finance Director (m/f/x)* EMEA

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Finance Director EMEA (m/f/x)* will report directly to the VP Finance International, Medical Surgical, and will be the finance business leader for financial planning and reporting processes. The role will interface with key business leaders, sales and customer operations, sales leaders, and key finance stakeholders (FP&A, portfolio finance, controllers) to provide financial and business partnerships.
As the Finance Director of EMEA Medical Surgical Business, you will make an impact by:

• Partnering with business leaders and other internal stakeholders to drive growth and margin expansion

• Owning, augmenting, tracking, and updating the financial forecasting cycles for the region, including strategic plan, annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, and latest estimates

• Working with sales leaders, sales operations, marketing to drive our growth goals while delivering financial targets; ensuring strong financial discipline, high forecast accuracy and predictability

• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to design, develop, and drive continuous improvement activities to enable us to serve customers more effectively

• Developing financial models to highlight revenue and profit growth opportunities and drive resource allocation decisions

• Improving efficiency of financial processes and tools through simplification, standardization and automation, leveraging technology and in collaboration with global FP&A and other stakeholders

• Leading the Medical Surgical EMEA finance team, providing direct supervision to assigned team members through coaching, training and development; allocating work assignments, reviewing progress in achieving objectives, assessing performance, providing feedback and managing employee compensation

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher

• Profound experience working in finance organizations with key understanding of business unit and commercial processes and reporting

• Solid experience of financial modeling for international organizations

• Solid finance experience within a healthcare industry

• Solid leadership experience managing senior level teams

• Fluent English skills

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• CPA, CMA or equivalent international certification

• Experience in the MedTech Industry

• Responsible for Income Statements

• Leadership and collaboration skills to engage with business stakeholders and drive alignment on financial assumptions

• Ability to lead through others and influence

• Pragmatic, results-oriented with a strong bias towards executing with speed, agility, and quality

• Experience in a global business setting and understanding of operational and cultural differences due to geography, size, and scope of the organization

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Skills of any European language

• Strong analytical skills. Ability to manage and understand complex data and derive simple and actionable recommendations

• Record of career progression with increasing levels of responsibility

• Outstanding integrity, initiative, creativity, and passion

Travel: May include up to 30% within the EMEA region

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.