Head of Commercial Finance & Commercial Excellence, Wound & Tissue Repair (WTR), International

Would you like to play a key role in strengthening commercial performance across a diverse international business, combining financial insight, commercial excellence, and cross-regional collaboration?

Commercial Finance & Commercial Excellence partners closely with regional commercial leaders, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and local market teams to improve forecasting, reporting, performance visibility, and commercial execution. In this role, you will take a leading position in supporting our WTR business area across key international markets, including China, Canada, Greece, India, South Africa, and Brazil.

As Head of Commercial Finance & Commercial Excellence, you will help shape stronger decision-making, improve consistency across markets, and enable scalable commercial processes that support sustainable growth.

Your Role
You will take on a highly business-facing role, acting as a trusted partner to the WTR international organisation while strengthening financial planning, commercial insights, and performance management. This role offers a unique opportunity to work hands-on with the business to:

• Support commercial performance and growth across international WTR markets
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and performance tracking across geographies
• Strengthen commercial excellence through better tools, processes, and governance
• Translate financial and commercial data into clear, actionable business insights

You will proactively engage with stakeholders across the organisation, identify opportunities, and continuously improve how we plan, report, and execute across markets.

“This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of commercial finance and business excellence in a truly international environment. You will partner closely with regional leaders and local market teams to create visibility, improve decision-making, and support sustainable growth across WTR”, says Chris Harte, Vice President, WTR Region International.

The team
You will join the WTR international organization, working closely with regional commercial leaders, Finance, Sales, and Marketing across multiple markets. In addition, Finance and Commercial Excellence colleagues in selected countries report dotted-line to this role, creating a strong network of close collaboration, professional sparring, and shared learning across the region.
A small team of commercial excellence managers report directly to the role.

Key responsibilities
• Act as commercial finance and commercial excellence lead for WTR international markets
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and performance tracking across countries
• Analyze financial and commercial results and translate them into actionable insights for leadership
• Develop and maintain standardized dashboards, KPIs, and reporting to improve visibility and decision-making
• Support cross-regional collaboration, process improvement, and commercial excellence initiatives across markets

You can look forward to travel around approx. 30-40 days annually.

What you bring
We are looking for a proactive and commercially minded leader who thrives in an international environment and is motivated by creating impact through insight, collaboration, and structure.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or similar
• 5–10+ years of experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or related roles
• Strong financial modelling, analytical, and data visualization skills, including Excel and BI tools
• Experience working across international markets or global organisations is an advantage

Personal profile:
• Proactive and collaborative, with the ability to work across countries, cultures, and time zones
• Strong business curiosity and a drive to improve performance and processes
• Clear communicator who can engage both local teams and global leadership

Why this role?
This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to Coloplast’s purpose by helping strengthen the commercial performance of our international WTR business in a truly global environment. You will be part of an ambitious organisation where insight, ownership, and teamwork make a real difference. By partnering closely with colleagues across HQ and markets, you will help build the structures, visibility, and commercial excellence capabilities that enable sustainable growth and better outcomes for the business and the people we serve.

Interested?
For further information about the position, please contact VP, Region International WTR Chris Harte at charte@kerecis.com

We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously, so do not hesitate to apply. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found.

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.

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