Senior Development Manager- GO Finance

Coloplast; Humlebæk; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Coloplast in Humlebæk, Denmark, invites a Senior Development Manager to shape the Centre of Excellence for Global Operations Finance. You will lead development projects, standardize processes, and drive digitalization across manufacturing, procurement and FP&A with global teams.

This role offers high ownership, collaboration with the GO Finance teams in Denmark and Poland, and travel to manufacturing sites to deliver reusable improvements and value creation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of working experience in a finance role, preferably global manufacturing.
• Experience leading global projects and coordinating teams across borders.
• Strong process mapping and continuous improvement mindset.
• Analytical mindset to structure and simplify complex problems.
• Numerical skills and proficiency with Excel; familiarity with BI tools (Power BI).
• Business-oriented with collaboration across IT, Finance and operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive development initiatives within Global Operations Finance (Manufacturing focus).
• Lead and independently execute selected improvement projects.
• Facilitate cross-functional process mapping workshops to document current and design future processes.
• Drive process improvement and standardization initiatives based on gaps and best practices.
• Build and manage a cross-functional stakeholder network.
• Collaborate closely with IT, Finance, and Global Operations.
• Translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Plan and drive adoption and change across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strengthen data foundations to support value creation.
• Support global FP&A reporting processes.

Skills

Finance experience

Global projects

Process mapping

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

Power BI familiarity

English proficiency

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Humlebæk, DK

Job Family: Finance

Country/Region: Denmark

Senior Development Manager – Centre of Excellence Global Operation Finance

Would you like to embark on a journey of defining and shaping our Global Operations (GO) Finance Development activities? This is a unique opportunity to drive impactful change, with significant creative freedom and exposure across global functions—while creating value through improved financial and performance processes.

Join a global and high-impact finance function.

Overview

Global Operations Finance is responsible for the financial management of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Distribution, Quality, Procurement and Facility. Global Operations Finance works closely together with the Global Operations leadership team and plays a key role in setting the performance agenda for Global Operations and ensuring a satisfactory financial performance.

You will join an ambitious, passionate, and high-performing team focused on delivering high-quality financial processes, accurate forecasts, and actionable performance insights. The team is based across Humlebæk, our Business Support Center in Poland, and finance teams at manufacturing sites globally.

The position includes some travel to manufacturing locations.

Drive transformation and enable value creation

As part of our ambitious journey to strengthen Global Operations Finance, we are looking for a profile who can drive process standardization, digitalization, and analytics capabilities across the organization. A key part of this will be to lead and facilitate structured process mapping and redesign initiatives, ensuring clear end-to-end process understanding, identification of improvement opportunities, and anchoring of scalable, efficient ways of working.

You will play a key role in bringing this ambition to life by working closely with colleagues across the newly established Centre of Excellence (CoE) and leading a portfolio of development projects.

Initiatives will include process standardization, ownership of development roadmap, gathering business requirements, adoption planning as well as and continuous development of our performance management capabilities.

You will work cross-geographically/functionally with our teams at manufacturing sites and two GO Finance teams located in Denmark and Poland.

Responsibilities

• Drive development initiatives within Global Operations Finance (with focus on Manufacturing)
• Lead and independently execute selected improvement projects
• Facilitate cross-functional process mapping workshops to document current (“as-is”) processes and design future (“to-be”) optimized processes
• Drive process improvement and standardization initiatives based on identified gaps, inefficiencies, and best practices
• Build and manage a strong cross-functional stakeholder network
• Collaborate closely with IT, Finance, and Global Operations
• Translate business requirements into scalable solutions
• Plan and drive adoption and change across diverse stakeholder groups and ensure realization
• Strengthen data foundations to support value creation
• Support global FP&A reporting processes

Qualifications

• You hold min. 5 years of working experience from a finance position, where you have built a solid understanding of operational finance preferably from a global manufacturing company.
• You have experience participating or leading global projects and enjoy planning and organizing people around given target.
• You have a proven knowledge of process mapping and continues improvement mindset.
• You have a strong analytical mindset, and ability to use this to structure, prioritize and plan complex problems or processes, so they become simple.
• You have numerical skills and both interest and knowledge in the use of Excel as well as ability to work with BI (preferably Power BI).
• You are business oriented and focus on reaching great results together with your informal team and your colleagues. (IT Teams, Global Operations Functions, Global Manufacturing Sites finance
• You speak, write and read English flawlessly.

Additional requirements

Joining a global business function, it is vital that you are comfortable working on large projects in complex setups and able to simplify structures. Your communication and stakeholder management skills are also of the utmost importance.

With digitalisation comes change management, and we need to ensure that new processes are adopted by our organisation to ensure we get the full value. As such, you will also need to have great people skills, enabling you to build sound relationships and create buy-in and followship across teams and borders.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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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