Director, Commercial Finance - Clinical Trials Division

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

Raleigh, NC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Alliance/Partner Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Biology, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Business Administration, Business Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Strategy, Clinical Research, Clinical Trial, Communication Skills, Corporate Policies, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Science, Data Visualization Tools, Decision Support, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Finance, Financial Modeling, Financial Strategy, Forecasting, Healthcare, International Business, Leadership, Maintain Compliance, Market Share, Mentoring, Negotiation Skills, Operations Processes, Power BI, Pricing, Problem Solving Skills, Product Pricing, Profit & Loss, Revenue Growth, Sales Forecasting, Sales Pipeline, Scalable System Development, Strategic Planning
LOCATION
Raleigh, NC
POSTED
19 days ago

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

The Director, Commercial Finance - Clinical Trials Division is a strategic finance leader responsible for driving commercial performance, pricing strategy, business analytics, and revenue optimization across a multi-billion-dollar global business. This role partners closely with Commercial, Finance, and Business Unit leadership to deliver actionable insights, improve profitability, and enable data-driven decision-making.

Key responsibilities include leading pricing and deal strategy, commercial forecasting, business intelligence reporting, and transformation initiatives. The role also oversees advanced analytics capabilities, supports strategic planning processes, and drives operational excellence across commercial finance activities.

This leader will play a critical role in driving profitable growth for the Clinical Trials Division by partnering closely with Commercial leadership to defend and expand key customer relationships, improve market share, and optimize commercial outcomes. The role is also responsible for ensuring compliance with commercial and corporate policies, while strengthening pricing governance and contract discipline.

Additionally, the Director will lead the development of scalable analytics and reporting solutions, accelerate AI-enabled decision support and automation, enhance forecasting accuracy, and enable growth through strong cross-functional business partnership and strategic insight generation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with Commercial VP to enable Sales & Revenue Growth - sales forecast, pipeline and other commercial analytics
  • Strategic Pricing & Deal Optimization - MSA negotiations, deal modelling, pricing new offerings, ad hoc pricing requests
  • Pricing operations and Governance - rebate/discount calculation, update rate cards, contract compliance, annual price roll
  • Advanced Analytics, Data Science & Transformation - data science projects, commercial business analytics
  • People leadership - Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of managers and analysts

Key Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Analytics, or related field (MBA preferred)
  • 10+ years of experience in commercial finance, pricing, analytics, or strategic finance leadership
  • Strong expertise in pricing strategy, forecasting, financial modeling, and business analytics
  • Experience with Power BI, ERP/CRM platforms, and data visualization tools
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders
  • Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving capabilities

Preferred Skills

  • Experience in life sciences, clinical research, healthcare, or pharmaceutical services
  • Exposure to AI-enabled analytics and commercial transformation initiatives
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights

About the Company

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

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.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
All
WEBSITE
https://corporate.thermofisher.com/en/home.html