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.
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. The successful candidate will be expected to:
• Lead through influence across commercial, operational, site and finance teams.
• Balance strategic perspective with hands-on analysis and follow-through.
• Operate with limited oversight and provide independent challenge.
• Investigate complex performance movements and explain the implications clearly.
• Build practical dashboards, automation and analytics that improve insight.
• Remain close to the detail while helping shape the long-term direction of the business.
Core Capabilities
Strategic Perspective: Connect analysis with business strategy, portfolio choices and investment priorities.
Delivery: Turn analysis into timely decisions, actions and sustained financial improvement.
Working Together: Build alignment across leadership, sites, commercial teams and Finance.
Adaptability: Navigate changing priorities while maintaining financial discipline.
Curiosity: Investigate drivers behind sales, margin, cost, cash and profitability movements.
Authenticity: Provide independent challenge, communicate transparently and build trust.
Experience & Expertise
• Senior finance business partnering experience supporting strategic and operational decisions in a complex business.
• Strong FP&A capability across budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, reporting and scenario analysis.
• Strong financial-accounting and data understanding, with the ability to investigate complex movements and explain their business implications.
• Experience analyzing sales, margin, profitability, cash flow, working capital, costs and balance-sheet performance.
• Experience supporting manufacturing or site leadership with cost analysis, investment decisions and operational insight.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate across functions, sites and geographies without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and presentation capability for finance and non-finance audiences.
• Pharmaceuticals, life sciences, biotechnology, specialty ingredients or multi-site manufacturing experience is advantageous.
• SAP, enterprise financial data, dashboards, automation or analytics experience is advantageous.
• Capital-project governance, investment appraisal, technology-transfer finance or grant support is advantageous.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a relevant discipline; CPA, CMA, ACA, ACCA, CGMA or equivalent qualification is advantageous.
Role Scope
Global financial partnership for Pharma Solutions and site finance leadership for Alabaster. Reporting to the North America Finance Director, the role partners with the Pharma Solutions Vice President, the Alabaster Site Head and their leadership teams. It coordinates financial insight across the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Korea. The role has no direct reports and is supported by SAP data, site accountants and the broader Finance organization.
Additional Information
This is an on-site position with associated travel based at our corporate headquarters in Princeton, NJ
Annual Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000
This range reflects the base salary the company reasonably expects to pay for this position. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level. Additional compensation, such as annual bonuses or other incentives, may be offered based on eligibility and company policies.
