A global leader in life sciences is seeking a Principal Finance Business Partner in Wexford. This role involves providing strategic insights into the service and sales business while ensuring strong collaboration with senior management. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with excellent analytical skills and experience in the Life Sciences industry. You will play a key role in driving business goals and ensuring effective communication across teams. This position offers opportunities for innovation and strategic influence. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Overview Waters is seeking a Principal Finance Business Partner to join the team in Wilmslow or Wexford on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract . The Principal Finance Business Partner should have the ability to influence day‑to‑day decisions, shaping strategy and the direction of the business. You must be able to use financial data and expert knowledge to facilitate change by working closely with or providing a service to the service and influence system sales teams. You will provide strategic insights into the service and sales business. These insights will be based on operational performance, industry dynamics, macroeconomic trends, and the competitive landscape. The individual must build strong relationships with the General Manager for Europe North and key service and sales managers. They should apply interpretation skills beyond traditional finance functions and use them to address a wide range of commercial topics. Ultimately, these topics need to be effectively communicated to senior management teams. The ability to listen, interpret, influence, negotiate, and inspire is all vital to the role. Purpose: You will be expected to commit to Water's vision that decisions and actions are guided by two simple words – 'Deliver Benefit'. We should positively impact our customers, employees, shareholders, and society at every opportunity. Responsibilities Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams. Work with EMEA business partners to develop better forecasting tools. Driving and leading ad hoc commercial and operational projects to ensure successful delivery against an agreed timeline. Provide regular updates on Key performance indicators. Provide support to build business cases, including ROI calculations. Drive analysis of key trends on a proactive basis and understand business drivers behind the trends that are visible in the results. Support the delivery of a credible Annual Operating Plan by providing a review of data and making recommendations based on this analysis. Work with business leaders to ensure resources are utilised efficiently to meet business goals. Work with Financial analysts to build reporting dashboards that provide real‑time information. Qualifications A qualified accountant or holds a master’s degree in finance/Accounting. Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills Expert knowledge in Office 365, including Excel, Powerpoint and Power BI (would be an advantage). SAP with business warehouse experience would be useful. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and additional European languages would be beneficial. Project management expertise or experience would be an advantage Extensive experience working in a commercial environment, preferably in the Life sciences industry. A self‑starting mind‑set, able to look ahead, innovate and continually improve agility and adaptability, is comfortable that change is a constant and can adapt actions and thinking to suit different conditions or situations. Comfortable working autonomously. C ollaboration & teamwork – possess the ability to listen, share information and work effectively with team members to accomplish goals. C ommunication – able to express ideas clearly, effectively and with meaning. Enables effective communication across the function or team. Ability to influence and challenge others by communicating clear facts convincingly and respectfully. C reative thinker/Innovator – Can look for alternative approaches. Always willing to look at something differently, constantly asking what if? Including the ability to apply creative and unconventional solutions to complex problems. Enterprise‑minded – The ability to see the big picture whilst helping implement procedural change. Also uses expert knowledge to make sound judgments and to act on them where appropriate. Solutions‑driven mindset – ability to analyse a problem and construct solutions to resolve said problem. Company Description Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high‑volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high‑quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of :16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Director Clinical Product Solutions - Waters Corporation Overview Waters is a leader in life sciences tools, starting with liquid chromatography technologies in the 1960s. Since then, Waters has pioneered analytical techniques across markets including Clinical Diagnostics, Food & Environmental, Pharmaceuticals, and Materials. In Clinical Diagnostics, Waters has leading LC‑MS technologies used for therapeutic drug monitoring, newborn screening, and endocrinology. With the growth in precision medicine, LC‑MS in clinical diagnostics is an exciting time. Clinicians demand real‑time insights into disease states, requiring comprehensive protein, metabolite, and lipid profiling. LC‑MS assays provide the analytical specificity, sensitivity, and multiplex capacity needed. Our vision is for Waters to lead the continued broad‑based adoption of LC‑MS, accelerated by innovation in ionization methods, ease of use, and new applications in omics and pathology. Reporting to the Senior Director, Clinical Product Solutions, this position joins a passionate, agile team to develop innovative solutions that address high unmet needs and establish Waters as the leader in clinical LC‑MS diagnostics markets. Responsibilities Acts as product and business owner for LC‑MS/MS informatics solutions specifically for clinical diagnostics. Leads VoC and competitive benchmark efforts to identify unmet needs and develop value propositions for new product solutions in key therapeutic areas of responsibility. Leads the development of business cases for new product solutions or product enhancements. Develops comprehensive target product profiles through qualitative and quantitative market and customer requirement assessment. Manages VOC SME customer relationships and continuous customer feedback activities throughout the product development cycle to ensure closed‑loop feedback between customers and new product/solution implementation. Partners with Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality departments for successful clinical studies, regulatory submissions, and clearance to enable market launch of new solutions. Defines and implements new product launch strategies; partners with field marketing, sales, and service management teams to establish and implement commercial launch plans to maximize sales impact in the first two years. Partners closely with Global Marketing, R&D, and Commercial teams on content generation to fulfill marketing strategy campaigns. Qualifications Minimum BSc in a scientific field or equivalent. MBA is highly desirable. Experience in LC/MS product management is required. IVD experience is desirable. Experience in a product management, business development, sales, or other customer‑facing role in the clinical diagnostic market is highly desired. Experience developing ‘Go‑to‑Market’ product strategies. Ability to influence cross‑functional teams without formal authority. Key Skills LC/MS and IVD/Medical Device project management. Continuous process improvement. Deep understanding of Waters’ clinical products. Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Exceptional organization and problem‑solving skills. Exceptional interpersonal skills. Company Description Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world’s leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory‑dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality. Working at Waters enables employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well‑being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today to solve the challenges of tomorrow. EEO Statement Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Waters is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. Location Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland #J-18808-Ljbffr
