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Senior Director, Global Commercial FP&A, Business Insights & Data Science
Illumina
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $201,100 - $301,700 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Advance the commercial organization’s maturity from hypothesis-driven analysis to predictive modeling and forward-looking insights to enable more customer-focused, value-added decisions.
- Lead competitive, customer, industry, and peer benchmarking analyses to provide context-rich insights that inform business strategy and executive decision-making.
- Partner with Commercial leadership to identify and evaluate revenue growth opportunities, integrating finance strategy with commercial objectives.
- Support business and finance leaders in achieving both short- and long-term revenue goals by delivering actionable forecasts and scenario planning.
- Identify emerging risks and opportunities and engage cross-functional leaders to assess impact and recommend course corrections.
- Drive continuous improvements in revenue forecasting and budgeting processes to enhance accuracy, agility, and efficiency.
- Deliver clear, compelling presentations to the CCO, CFO, and executive team that drive alignment and informed decision-making.
- Lead and manage Quarterly Executive Business Reviews in partnership with regional and marketing leaders.
- Support Investor Relations with insights and analytics for earnings releases, JP Morgan Conference, and Investor Day.
- Direct the Data Science team to develop and operationalize predictive models that enhance business planning and financial strategy.
- Apply advanced analytics, including diagnostic and statistical techniques, to address complex business questions and inform commercial priorities.
- Oversee full lifecycle of machine learning model deployment, from design through feature engineering, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
- Provide ongoing coaching and insights to elevate financial acumen across the global commercial organization.
- Serve as an enterprise-wide leader by sponsoring and executing cross-functional strategic finance initiatives.
- Champion a culture of excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning that reflects our company’s values and mission.
- This role includes direct supervision of a team, with responsibility for performance management, coaching and development, workload prioritization, and day-to-day oversight.
- The position is also responsible for hiring, onboarding, and navigating people-related matters in alignment with company policies, values, and evolving workplace expectations.
- Additional duties may be assigned as needed to support evolving business priorities.
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 20 years of progressively responsible finance experience, with 12+ years of Management experience.
- MBA or relevant advanced degree strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading multi-functional teams with enterprise-wide impact.
- Strong background in FP&A with expertise in strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
- Proven track record of translating big data into business strategy through advanced analytics and predictive modeling.
- Experience in deploying and scaling data science or machine learning models to support business outcomes.
- Excellent executive presence with strong communication, storytelling, and influencing skills across all levels, including executive leadership and board-facing interactions.
- Ability to distill complexity and deliver insights that drive strategic decisions in a dynamic, matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated success in building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing teams.
- Industry experience in life sciences, diagnostics, or healthcare preferred.
- Strong grasp of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), financial reporting, and the implications of various business strategies on financial outcomes.
- Strategic thinker with strong operational execution capabilities and a collaborative leadership style.
- Location at the San Diego, CA Headquarters is required.
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