Operations FP&A Director

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