Commercial Finance Lead (Medical Devices)

This position is limited to BBBEE candidates due to BEE requirements.

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng

Position Overview

A global medical devices and diagnostics concern has an opportunity for Commercial Finance Lead for the Diagnostics Africa business.

The Commercial Finance Lead will be responsible to direct and the commercial finance strategy formulation in sync with the overall company's strategy, take necessary pricing actions to enhance profitability, ensuring integrity and accuracy in all pricing matters.

The successful candidate will be required to lead the annual Price increase process for the organization, develop reports to track & monitor the pricing projects and associated activities on various product lines and market segments and run system audits to ensure compliance to contractual obligations by customers.

One will set up and develop dashboards on an ongoing basis by combining raw data from commercial, finance, legal, marketing, supply chain and service to survey the efficiency and performance of customers.

The optimization of business processes is also required.

Key Accountabilities And Experience Required

Deal structuring, pricing management and tender management.
Business partnering and business process optimization.
Staff leadership and management.
A completed Degree in a relevant Finance or Logistics related field.
At minimum of 7 years' experience in a global Pharmaceutical or Medical Device Manufacturing commercial environment, performing Finance/Supply Chain, Planning or Commercial Tender related functions.
A minimum of 3 years of experience in managing people.
Project Management experience is required.
At least 7 years related experience in Pricing Setups, Advanced Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and SAP.

Desired Skills