Global Network FP&A Manager – Manufacturing

BioSpace; Bridgewater Township (NJ); On-site; USD 111,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company holidays

Job summary

Legend Biotech is seeking a Manager, Network FP&A based in Bridgewater, NJ to lead financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and analytics across the company’s manufacturing and supply network. The role consolidates financial and operational data to deliver insights on costs, margins, profitability, and risk for executive decision-making.

You will own monthly and quarterly reporting, develop models for capacity, investment evaluation, and make-versus-buy analyses, and partner with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or related field.
• Advanced degree and/or relevant professional accounting/finance qualification preferred.
• Progressive experience in FP&A, manufacturing finance, supply-chain finance, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and financial modeling.
• Experience translating operational and commercial assumptions into financial plans and actionable business insights.
• Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Cell-therapy, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
• Experience with ERP, enterprise planning, reporting, visualization, or analytics platforms preferred.
• Strong FP&A, forecasting, financial-modeling, and analytical capabilities.
• Understanding of manufacturing economics, including COGM, capacity, productivity, inventory, and gross-margin drivers.
• Ability to integrate financial and operational data from multiple sites and functions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models supporting capacity planning, network scenarios, product costing, gross-margin analysis, and operational decisions.
• Support the Senior Manager, Network Finance & Strategy in evaluating manufacturing investments, automation initiatives, and make-versus-buy or sourcing alternatives.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analyses that clearly connect operational assumptions to COGM, profitability, cash flow, and other financial outcomes.
• Own consolidated monthly and quarterly reporting across the manufacturing and supply network, including actual-to-budget, forecast, prior-year, and long-range-plan comparisons.
• Analyze COGM, cost per batch, productivity, volume, capacity, labor, overhead, external manufacturing, and gross-margin drivers.
• Identify key risks, opportunities, trends, and required actions and communicate findings through concise, decision-oriented reporting.
• Develop analytics supporting manufacturing productivity, cost competitiveness, and long-term gross margin expansion.
• Consolidate and evaluate cross-site savings and productivity initiatives in partnership with Site Finance and operational leaders.
• Track financial performance against approved initiatives and provide visibility into forecasted benefits, risks, timing, and execution gaps.
• Support financial planning and analysis for pipeline products as programs progress through development and toward commercialization.
• Incorporate pipeline volumes, manufacturing costs, capacity needs, investment requirements, and sourcing assumptions into financial plans.
• Partner with Finance and operational stakeholders to develop repeatable planning and reporting processes for new products.
• Own the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Network Finance dashboards, KPI reporting, and performance analytics.
• Establish consistent metric definitions, assumptions, data sources, and reporting standards across sites and functions.
• Develop clear executive-ready presentations that connect financial results with operational drivers and business implications.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, MSAT, Engineering, Procurement, Site Finance, and other stakeholders on financial planning and performance.
• Provide timely analysis and financial insights that help business partners understand trade-offs, improve performance, and make informed decisions.
• Build effective relationships across functions, sites, and regions while maintaining clear ownership, accountability, and follow-through.
• Improve and standardize Network FP&A processes, planning models, reporting tools, and analytical methodologies.
• Partner with Finance, IT, and data teams to automate reporting, strengthen data quality, and reduce manual data extraction and spreadsheet-intensive activities.
• Support development of scalable data and analytics capabilities that improve forecast accuracy, reporting timeliness, and decision support.

Skills

FP&A expertise

Forecasting

Financial modeling

Management reporting

Cross-functional partner

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Data visualization tools

Enterprise planning software

Job description

Legend Biotech is seeking a Manager, Network FP&A based in Bridgewater, NJ to lead financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and analytics across the company’s manufacturing and supply network. The role consolidates financial and operational data to deliver insights on costs, margins, profitability, and risk for executive decision-making.

You will own monthly and quarterly reporting, develop models for capacity, investment evaluation, and make-versus-buy analyses, and partner with