The Manager, CMO/CDMO Finance Business Partner supports Finance across Contract Manufacturing and Contract Development & Manufacturing activities, providing financial planning, performance management, cost accounting, contract analysis, and decision support.
Working closely with CMO/CDMO leadership and cross-functional partners across External Supply, Planning, Procurement, TechOps, R&D, Accounting and Finance, the role helps translate operational plans and contractual arrangements into clear financial insights and business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance management across the CMO/CDMO portfolio, including risks, opportunities and management reporting.
- Partner with Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Operations to ensure forecasts reflect production volumes, capacity, inventory, tech transfer timelines, launches and lifecycle assumptions.
- Read and interpret relevant commercial and manufacturing agreements, translating key contractual terms into financial implications, risks and required actions.
- Maintain visibility over pricing mechanisms, supplier commitments, milestones, payment terms, claims, settlements, accruals and true-ups.
- Support virtual plant and external manufacturing cost accounting, including standard costing, inventory valuation, PPV, manufacturing variances and COGS impacts.
- Analyze external manufacturing cost flows, including inventory ownership, tolling versus buy-sell arrangements, intercompany activity and legal-entity implications.
- Develop financial models and business cases supporting supplier selection, sourcing decisions, tech transfers, capacity changes, contract modifications and lifecycle transitions.
- Track and validate savings, cost avoidance, cash flow benefits and value realization from CMO/CDMO initiatives.
- Partner across CMO/CDMO, External Supply Integration, Procurement, TechOps, R&D, Planning, Accounting, Legal and Finance to provide an integrated Finance perspective.
- Improve reporting, analytics, controls and processes, increasing transparency, scalability and reducing dependency on manual or individual knowledge.
What You Bring
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related discipline.
- Relevant experience in Finance Business Partnering, manufacturing finance, supply chain, procurement, cost accounting or related areas.
- Strong financial analysis, forecasting, modeling and business-case capabilities.
- Exposure to product costing, inventory, manufacturing economics and external supply strongly preferred.
- Ability to understand and interpret commercial contracts and supplier agreements from a Finance perspective.
- Experience working across complex, cross-functional and matrix organizations.
- Strong Excel skills; familiarity with SAP, planning, reporting or analytics tools preferred.
Leadership Behaviors
- Business curiosity: seeks to understand operational, contractual and commercial drivers rather than stopping at the numbers.
- Collaborative influence: builds trusted relationships across Finance and non-Finance teams and works effectively through a matrix.
- Ownership and judgment: takes accountability, identifies risks early, and converts complexity into practical actions and decisions.
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