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Mission

The FP&A Director for the CDMO business is responsible for leading strategic financial planning, performance management, and decision support across ESTEVE’s global CDMO operations.

This role acts as a key finance business partner to the CDMO leadership team, supporting growth, operational excellence, investment decisions, and long-range value creation across a complex international manufacturing network.

The position plays a critical role in helping ESTEVE scale its CDMO platform globally while maintaining strong profitability, capital discipline, and customer-centric execution.

 

Role

  • Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes for the CDMO business.
  • Oversee monthly financial performance review, including analysis of actuals vs. budget/forecast and key variances.
  • Provide financial support to commercial team in the preparation and evaluation of customer quotations, ensuring profitability, cost transparency and alignment with CDMO pricing and margin objectives.
  • Drive financial analysis and provide strategic insights to support investment, sourcing and cost optimization decisions.
  • Develop, implement and continuously improve cost control tools, methodologies and reporting standards globally.
  • Identify operational and financial performance levers and define relevant KPIs.
  • Build and track business cases for investments and strategic projects.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to management on performance improvement, risk mitigation and growth opportunities.
  • Ensure an end-to-end view of operations, including risks, results and improvement initiatives.
  • Define functional objectives and establish policies and procedures to support a robust financial infrastructure.
  • Lead, mentor and develop the CDMO FP&A Team

 

Required Studies

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance or Engineering (required).
  • MBA or Master’s degree in Finance (preferred).

 

Other specialized knowledge

  • Strong Excel skills (spreadsheets, pivot tables, formulas).
  • Strong knowledge of SAP and Business Intelligence tools
  • Strong understanding of manufacturing economics and cost structures

 

Languages

  • Fluent English required (Spanish highly valued)

 

 Professional experience

  • 10+ years of progressive finance experience
  • Significant FP&A leadership experience with CDMO/Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals & Industrial multinational environments
  • Strong exposure to manufacturing finance and operations partnering (cost controlling)
  • Experience in international matrix organizations
  • Exposure to transformation, scaling environments

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