Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals.
Location/Division Specific Information
The Finance Director serves as a key member of the leadership team for the Viral Vector Services & Advanced Therapies business within the Pharma Services Group. As a leading CDMO partner supporting gene and advanced therapies, we provide end-to-end capabilities spanning process and analytical development through clinical and commercial manufacturing. Our experienced teams have successfully supported more than 100 client programs, delivering first-in-human clinical materials and accelerating innovative therapies from the laboratory to patients worldwide.
How will you make an impact?
As Finance Director, you will provide strategic financial leadership for the Viral Vector Services sites in the United States and Belgium, as well as the mRNA manufacturing site in Italy. This highly visible role carries full responsibility for the financial performance of the business, including ownership of the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow across the supported sites.
Partnering closely with site leaders and global business stakeholders, you will develop and execute financial strategies that drive profitable growth, operational excellence, and long-term value creation. You will lead a high-performing finance team responsible for forecasting, planning, performance management, and financial controls while ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer commitments.
Through data-driven insights and strong business partnership, you will influence key decisions related to investments, capacity, productivity, and resource allocation. Your leadership will help optimize operational performance, enhance financial outcomes, and support the continued growth of our global Advanced Therapies network.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Analysis and Reporting:
Planning and Forecasting:
Business Partnership & Leadership:
How will you get here?
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications
Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA strongly desired.
Minimum of 10 years of dynamic finance experience with management roles, including finance leadership and operations finance expertise.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Consistent record of outstanding results and team development
Outstanding leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
Ability to navigate in a matrix environment and across functional and global structures
Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
Strong executive presence
Experience in driving transformation within operational organizations is desired
Proficient in systems and data analytics
Strong personal and business values aligned with the organization's principles
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000+ extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $160,100.00-$240,000.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of nearly $11 billion, we have approximately 37,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications.
All of our employees share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. Our ability to grow year after year is driven by our ability to attract, develop and retain world-class people who will thrive in our environment and share in our desire to improve mankind by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
If you share in our values and if you're looking for an employer who is strongly committed to developing talent and rewarding achievement, come grow with us at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.