Senior Finance Director, Laboratory Chemicals Division

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of Thermo Fisher Scientific
, you’ll do meaningful work with global impact. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer
. You’ll join a team that takes science a step beyond—helping solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from protecting the environment and ensuring food safety to advancing the search for cancer cures.

The Senior Finance Director, Laboratory Chemicals Division is the strategic finance leader for a $600M+ global business within the Laboratory Products Group. As a key member of the divisional leadership team, this role partners closely with the President, Business Unit GMs, and leaders across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Quality, HR, and IT.

This leader will play a critical role in shaping business strategy and driving profitable growth, margin expansion, cash flow, and operational performance
. With ownership of the Division’s finance function, this individual will lead planning, forecasting, performance management, pricing, capital allocation, investment analysis, and financial controls.

We’re looking for a strategic, commercially minded finance leader who combines financial expertise, operational rigor, and an ownership mindset
. The successful candidate will understand the drivers behind the numbers, anticipate risks and opportunities, influence senior leaders, and translate insights into action.

• Serve as the lead finance partner to the Division President and leadership team
  , sharing accountability for overall business and financial performance.
• Shape strategy through insights on growth opportunities, portfolio decisions, pricing, productivity, and resource allocation
  .
• Lead long-range planning and strategic initiatives that accelerate revenue growth, margin expansion, and ROI.
• Translate market, customer, and operational trends into clear recommendations and actions.

• Lead the annual operating plan, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning for the $600M+ Division.
• Drive rigorous forecasting with clear visibility into business and site-level performance, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
• Deliver actionable insights across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital, and cash flow
  .
• Build a deep understanding of manufacturing costs and operational drivers to improve predictability and performance.
• Establish meaningful KPIs and business review processes that strengthen accountability and decision-making.
• Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities and enable leaders to take action before they impact results.

• Partner with Commercial and Marketing on pricing strategy, profitability, sales analytics, and revenue growth management
  .
• Build strong commercial insight through active engagement with customers, markets, and commercial teams.
• Evaluate growth investments, go-to-market initiatives, customer programs, and commercial productivity.
• Support portfolio decisions through analysis of mix, margin, lifecycle, and customer and regional trends
  .

• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Sourcing, and Manufacturing to improve productivity, inventory, margins, and cost competitiveness
  .
• Develop first-hand knowledge of site operations and turn operational performance into financial insights and actions.
• Provide financial leadership across manufacturing efficiency, costing, procurement, freight, and supply chain optimization
  .
• Lead margin improvement and productivity initiatives with accountability for measurable results.
• Guide capital investments in capacity, automation, network optimization,…