Global Finance Business Partner, Pharma Solutions

Location: Plainsboro

Turn Global Performance Data into Sharper Commercial, Operational and Investment Decisions Pharma Solutions brings together Croda capabilities across pharmaceutical excipients, vaccine adjuvants, lipid delivery systems and formulation expertise. As the business coordinates products, customers and manufacturing across multiple geographies, leaders need a consistent global view of performance, profitability, cash and investment choices.

The Global Finance Business Partner is the senior finance lead for Pharma Solutions and the finance leader for the Alabaster site. The role provides independent insight, constructive challenge and decision support, connecting site performance with the global business view.

This is a visible global finance leadership role with the opportunity to improve the quality and speed of decisions through clear visibility of sales, margin, product and site profitability, cash flow, working capital, forecasts, and capital returns.

Why Join Pharma Solutions Now?

Pharma Solutions is building a more integrated global operating model across dedicated and shared manufacturing sites. Finance has an opportunity to shape how the business evaluates growth, portfolio choices, capacity, technology transfers, capital investment and commercial agreements. This role sits at the center of those decisions and partners directly with the Pharma Solutions Vice President and Alabaster Site Head.

This role offers the opportunity to establish the global financial insight, performance rhythm and decision support needed for the next phase of Pharma Solutions growth.

What Success Looks Like Global Financial Leadership & Decision Support
· Become the trusted finance partner to Pharma Solutions leadership, bringing independent insight and constructive challenge.
· Connect financial performance, business priorities and long-term plans into clear recommendations.
· Support business strategy and five-year plans through analysis, scenarios and decision materials.

Performance, Profitability & Cash
· Own and enhance global reporting for sales, margin and profitability.
· Lead monthly performance reviews that explain results, identify risks and opportunities, and establish actions.
· Improve visibility of product, portfolio, site and global profitability.
· Proactively review balance sheet, cash flow and working capital performance.

Planning, Forecasting & Commercial Finance
· Coordinate budgets, forecasts and long-range plans with clear understanding of assumptions and movements.
· Support sales management and forecasting processes.
· Advise on complex commercial contracts and associated finance and accounting implications.
· Analyze capacity, portfolio optimization and investment trade-offs across sites.

Investment Governance & Insight Innovation
· Strengthen governance for capital projects, including investments of $1 million or more, technology transfers and grant applications.
· Integrate Alabaster performance, costs and investment decisions into the global view.
· Improve historic and forward-looking insight through dashboards, automation, analytics and appropriate AI-enabled tools.

First-Year Build Agenda
· Establish a consistent monthly global performance-review rhythm covering sales, margin, profitability, cash flow, working capital and key drivers.
· Create a clear global profitability view across products, portfolios and sites.
· Align Alabaster site finance with Pharma Solutions global reporting, planning and leadership routines.
· Implement practical dashboard, automation and analytics improvements that strengthen forward-looking decision support.

Operating Style This is a senior individual-contributor leadership role focused on building insight and improving decisions rather than managing a large organization.…