Commercial Finance Partner

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Baxter Finance Vision:

Build a world class Finance organization that enables Baxter to execute and achieve its strategic and financial objectives.

At Baxter, around the world, our employees are united by our mission to save and sustain lives. Together, we create a culture that encourages colleagues to pursue rewarding careers - where everyone can do meaningful work as a part of a team they respect, in an environment that values each person’s contributions.

Clinical Nutrition & Pharmaceuticals:

Clinical Nutrition & Pharmaceuticals (CNP) is a verticalized business in Baxter EMEA. Our vision is to leverage and grow with the synergies of our clinical nutrition, pharmaceutical, pharmacy services and homecare businesses to offer innovative products and services that enhance patient outcomes and improve efficiencies throughout the care pathway.

We are looking for a Commercial Finance Partner to support our vision, offering an attractive career journey within the Baxter Finance organization.

As a Commercial Finance partner your role will be to offer actionable insights that influence the decision making and impact the strategic direction of the business in support of our vision.

You will need to be able to demonstrate:

• Business Acumen
• An Inquisitive and Growth Mindset
• An Owner Mindset – get to the root cause and bring solutions
• Strong Influencer skills – Communication, catalyst for action

Your key stakeholders will be

• CN&P WEU VP CNP
• Commercial Team (including Business Unit Heads, Marketing & Injectables Director)
• Pharma & Nutrition Global Business Unit (GBU Chicago)
• Commercial Excellence
• Finance teams (Accounting, FP&A, Supply Chain Finance)

Key Responsibilities:

• With a focus on Decision Support activities you will be responsible for preparing exploratory and predictive analytics, supporting tenders/deal decisions with profitability analysis and providing business analysis to support strategic decisions across the Clusters in Western Europe.
• Working together with Cluster Business Unit Heads, provide insightful analysis for price, product, customer, and market channels to identify forward thinking business recommendations that can be driven to execution.
• Prepare new business models for New Product Launches or Business development Opportunities working closely with Global Business Unit to ensure alignment with long-term Regional objectives and strategy.
• Collaborate with the Commercial Excellence and Regional Marketing Teams to understand sales force metrics, sales incentives, dashboards, KPI definitions and distributor trends to build proposals to accelerate business growth
• Evaluate the ROI of incremental and existing SG&A costs, identifying areas for improvement
• Challenge the optimization of the asset base including sales associated with lease capex, inventory management and management of associated risks
• Adhoc Business Project support and analysis
• Support the FP&A and Business teams with input for the Baxter F’cast, Budget and Long Range Plan cycles.
• Support Compliance related activities through input in external or internal audits as requested and participate in Local Cluster Compliance Committee as a senior Finance representive for the Cluster.
• Member of of the EMEA Commercial Finance Partner Team driving improvements, best practice and harmonization across our team as well as participating in European projects when required.

Education/Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field (country equivalent)
• Qualified Accountant – Chartered or Management Accountant
• Minimum of 6-10 years experience in broad financial roles with multi-national companies, ideally in Business Partnership capacity

Competencies:

• Solid business knowledge and commercial acumen
• Strategic thinking and “owner” mindset
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Strong communication, both verbal and written presentation skills
• Act with the highest level of compliance and integrity
• Accountability
• Exhibit Baxter’s Culture Levers: Speed, Simplicity, Courage, Collaboration
• Advanced MS Office Skills with emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint

Why do you want to work at Baxter?

• Competitive total compensation package
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance (Family Responsible Certificate efr)
• Flexible benefits (childcare vouchers, employee discounts, etc.)
• Commitment to growing and developing an inclusive and diverse workforce – Baxter Spain holds the DIE certificate "Equality in the Workplace" that is awarded by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality since 2016. You can read more about our values at www.baxter.es