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 10,000 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 at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s 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 http://www.convatecgroup.com
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 What’s Right.
At Convatec, we’re transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. We’re aiming for nothing short of excellence. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Senior Finance Business Partner AWC and you’ll do the same.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

You will be vital for delivering sustainable and profitable growth for the UK AWC business 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 Manager 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 hands-on business partner with a strategic lens to analyze and decipher business issues.

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) while reporting to the 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 long-term strategy for the business along with the General Manager for UK AWC.
Within Finance, you are the business advocate, focusing beyond the finance boundaries and leading on cross-functional 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.

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 along with full P&L ownership / responsibility
• Partner the General Managers in the development of long-term Strategic Plan and Annual Budgets
• Lead the development and delivery of strategy translation into short, medium and long-term financial and non-financial 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 the support from the 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 post-event 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