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Sr. Manager, Finance Communications

Solventum, Maplewood, NJ, United States


Overview
Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers' toughest challenges.

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The Role
Senior Manager, Finance Communications (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum. At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers\' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients\' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You\'ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Manager, Finance Communications, you will support and enhance how the company communicates its financial performance, strategy, and long-term value creation story to key external stakeholders, including analysts, investors, and financial media. This role sits within the Investor Relations and Finance Communications team and plays a critical role in ensuring clear, credible, and consistent messaging across all external financial communications. This position operates in a highly regulated, public-company environment.

An individual-contributor role with significant exposure to and partnership with Finance, Legal Affairs, Communications, Commercial teams, and Executive Leadership. Success requires the ability to influence within a matrixed organization and collaboratively expand the company\'s external visibility and engagement with financial stakeholders while maintaining appropriate disclosure discipline.

Your Responsibilities
Investor Relations & Financial Communications

Partner closely within the Investor Relations and Finance Communications team to develop and execute quarterly earnings communications, including earnings press releases, executive scripts, Q&A materials, talking points, and support of investor messaging.

Articulate the company\'s financial performance, operating drivers, capital allocation priorities, and strategic roadmap in a clear, consistent, and financially stakeholder-relevant manner.

Support the development of external materials for earnings calls, investor conferences, analyst meetings, non-deal roadshows, and investor days.

Contribute to efforts to expand and elevate the company\'s external financial narrative and visibility with investors and analysts, ensuring alignment across IR, Finance, Legal Affairs and Communications.

Ensure all communications are developed with a strong awareness of Regulation FD, disclosure controls and public-company governance requirements, in close partnership with Legal Affairs and Finance.

External Finance Communications & Visibility

Lead or support external communications tied to financial and strategic milestones, including M&A, portfolio actions, restructuring, leadership changes, and other material developments.

Draft and refine high-quality content, including press releases, investor communications, executive messaging, FAQs, and backgrounders.

Support proactive and reactive engagement with financial and business media, including development of messaging, briefing materials, and preparation of senior leaders for external interactions, as appropriate.

Monitor financial media coverage and analyst commentary to identify themes, risks, and opportunities that inform messaging and engagement strategies.

ESG & Sustainability Communications (Investor-Relevant)

Partner with Investor Relations, Finance, Sustainability, and Communications to support investor-relevant ESG and sustainability communications, ensuring alignment with financial disclosures and long-term value creation priorities.

Assist in developing clear, consistent external messaging around sustainability strategy, progress, and material ESG topics for financial stakeholders.

Gather and synthesize feedback from investors and analysts on ESG considerations and help inform internal discussions around evolving expectations and disclosures.

Issues Management & Strategic Advisory

Partner with IR, Legal Affairs, Finance, and Communications on issues preparedness and response, particularly as it relates to financial performance, guidance, and investor-sensitive matters.

Serve as a trusted communications partner to Investor Relations and Finance leadership, providing sound judgment, strong project management, and disciplined execution.

Translate complex financial, accounting, operational, and healthcare-specific topics into accessible, accurate messaging for external audiences.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work effectively across a matrixed organization, influencing outcomes through collaboration and credibility rather than direct authority.

Ensure alignment between external financial communications and broader enterprise messaging, without diluting investor focus or disclosure rigor.

Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

Bachelor\'s Degree or higher in communications, Journalism, Business, Finance, or a related field and seven (7) years of experience in corporate communications with demonstrated experience in investor and finance communications in a private, public, government or military environment.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

Experience in MedTech, medical devices, healthcare, or other regulated industries strongly preferred.

Agency experience and/or experience supporting global or highly matrixed organizations a plus.

Proven ability to manage multiple high-stakes priorities under tight deadlines with strong attention to detail.

Exceptional writing and editing skills, with a proven ability to simplify complex financial concepts for various audiences.

Strategic thinker with the desire and demonstrated ability to execute tactically.

Highly organized and strong attention to detail.

Strong analytical skills to interpret market and industry news and feedback to translate it into actionable insights.

Strong understanding of financial/capital markets, corporate finance, and public company reporting requirements.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with competing priorities.

Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of an organization.

Collaborative team player with a proactive and results-driven approach.

In this role, you may be required to enter healthcare or other third-party facilities. Those facilities may require you to possess certain licenses, vaccinations, and/or other credentials as prerequisites to entry. All information will be kept in accordance with applicable law and Solventum policies. Solventum may share your information with providers of medical screenings, vaccinations, or verifications as well as facilities requiring the prerequisites to entry.

Work location: Remote - United States

Travel: May include up to 10% (domestic/international)

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B).

Supporting Your Well-being

Solventum offers programs to help you live your best life, with competitive pay and benefits.

Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $163,200 - $224,400, including base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range is a good faith estimate. Compensation may vary based on factors including knowledge, training, skills, location, and experience. Benefits may include Medical, Dental & Vision, HSAs, FSAs, Disability, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences, Retirement Benefits, etc. Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties. Solventum is committed to maintaining high standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process.

Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum. All email communications from Solventum regarding job opportunities will be from @solventum.com. Be wary of unsolicited emails from other domains. Solventum is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

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