Senior Director, North America Commercial Finance
Job Introduction
Thanks for checking out our vacancy, we’re delighted you want to learn more about Dechra!
Dechra is a growing, global specialist within the world of veterinary pharmaceuticals. Our expertise is in the development, manufacture, marketing and sales of high quality products exclusively for veterinarians worldwide.
Here at Dechra, our values are embedded within our culture and thrive within our family of almost 2000 colleagues globally. From manufacturing to marketing, (D)edication, (E)njoyment, (C)ourage, (H)onesty, (R)elationships and (A)mbition are at the heart of our everyday operations and the way we do business
The Opportunity
The Senior Director, NA Commercial Finance is a senior enterprise leader responsible for driving commercial insight, financial strategy, and performance management across the US and Canada organization. The role partners closely with the Executive Team and business leaders to shape strategic decision-making, optimize profitability, and enable sustainable growth.
The role drives organization-wide commercial analytics and outcomes, leads finance teams, and ensures financial rigor, insight, and foresight are embedded within strategic and operational decisions.
Role Responsibility
So, what will you be doing? This role has a broad and varied scope and the successful candidate will have responsibility for duties including:
Commercial Strategy & Decision Support
- Act as a strategic commercial partner to senior commercial and marketing executives, providing actionable insights on growth, pricing, investment, and cost optimization
- Translate business strategy into robust financial plans, forecasting, and scenario modelling
- Lead the implementation of the Revenue Growth agenda, ensuring clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and strong cross‑functional collaboration.
Financial Performance & Planning
- Lead enterprise-level budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes
- Own financial performance tracking, including vol/price/mix analysis, trade spend, ROI, channel inventory and value creation metrics
- Standardize and enhance reporting tools, processes, and systems to improve efficiency, accuracy, and alignment between corporate and commercial finance.
Business Partnering & Influence
- Partner with the SVP Sales, VP Marketing, Global RGM and senior leaders to shape multi‑year sales plans, assess profitability, and guide investment decisions.
- Strengthen partnerships between commercial finance, sales, marketing and corporate finance teams. Ensuring clarity of roles, effective communication, and aligned performance management.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Build and develop a high-performing commercial finance team strengthening capabilities, elevating leadership skills, and driving consistent ways of working across the function.
- Set clear expectations, priorities, and performance standards
- Build future-fit finance capabilities aligned to evolving business needs
The Ideal Candidate
Here at Dechra we pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and we embrace candidates from all walks of life. We’re particularly excited to hear from those who have/are:
- Bachelor’s degree; Master of Business Administration (MBA) or related graduate degree highly preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of experience in pharma, consumer packaged goods or consulting, with deep expertise in commercial finance.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills and strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and translate insights into clear recommendations.
- Proven success leading and developing high‑performing teams.
- Experience operating in fast‑paced, matrixed environments with multiple priorities and complex business dynamics.
- Exposure to major transformation, M&A, or digital initiatives preferred
About the Company
As a people first values-based culture, we provide free weekly wellness sessions focused on our employee's physical and mental wellbeing, and flexible work arrangements. We offer a generous employer 401k match and an other incentives for long-term financial wellness. Our full array of health, financial and voluntary benefit programs are what you would expect from a recognized Best Place to Work.