Head, Commercial Finance & Business Performance at Sygen Pharmaceuticals Limited

Sygen Pharmaceutical Limited (Sygen Pharma) is an innovative branded generics life sciences organisation that was established in March 2019. Sygen Pharma subsequently acquired the assets of Nigerian German Chemicals Plc (NGC); a company that had operated in Nigeria for almost 60 years and has a range of legacy brands with strong residual equity in its product portfolio.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Commercial Finance & Business Performance

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

About the Role 

• The Head, Commercial Finance & Business Performance is the strategic finance partner to the CEO, CFO and Commercial Leadership Team.
• The role is responsible for driving profitable growth by providing financial leadership across pricing, commercial strategy, business performance, investment evaluation and commercial decision support.
• Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Supply Chain, the role converts financial and operational data into actionable commercial insight that improves decision-making and long-term value creation.  
• The role also leads the Commercial Finance & Business Performance department and works in close partnership with the Head of Supply Finance to ensure operational performance translates into sustainable commercial success. 

Key Responsibilities 
Commercial Strategy: 

• Partner with executive leadership to develop and execute profitable growth strategies. 
• Evaluate new products, market opportunities, licensing opportunities and strategic investments.
• Lead financial modelling and business case development for major commercial initiatives.  

Business Performance: 

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and commercial performance reporting. 
• Develop executive dashboards and performance metrics. 
• Analyze business performance and recommend actions to improve revenue, profitability and return on investment.      

Pricing & Profitability: 

• Lead pricing strategy and governance. 
• Drive customer, product, channel and portfolio profitability analysis. 
• Evaluate promotional investments and commercial trade spend.  

Business Partnering: 

• Serve as Finance Business Partner to Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Supply Chain. 
• Challenge assumptions and provide commercially focused financial advice that supports better business decisions.  
• Working Capital & Commercial Governance 
• Improve commercial cash conversion, receivables performance and customer credit management. 
• Strengthen commercial finance processes, policies and controls.  

Leadership:

• Build and develop a high-performing Commercial Finance team. 
• Coach team members and promote a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.  

Other:

• Any other duty assigned by the CFO and/or CEO 

Qualification & Experience 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related discipline. 
• Accounting professional certification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) is required. 
• An MBA or Postgraduate degree is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years’ relevant working experience with at least 5 years in a commercial finance, FP&A or Business Finance leadership role, preferably in Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, FMCG or Manufacturing Company.  
• Strong Financial modeling, ERP (SAP preferable) and business partnering capability.  

Key Competence: 

•  Strategic and Commercial thinking                          
• Business partnering and influencing
• Financial modelling and analytical capability        
•  Pricing and profitability management 
• Leadership and people development                      
• Communication and stakeholder management 
• Decision making and problem solving                    
• Ownership mindset and execution excellence 

Success Measures:

• Revenue growth and gross margin improvement     
•  Forecast accuracy 
• Customer and product profitability   
• Pricing effectiveness    
• Working capital performance 
• Commercial decision support               
• Team capability and engagement.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@sygenpharma.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.