Chief Financial Officer

EIT Health – a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) designated by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) – is focused on promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, and education in the domain of healthy living and active ageing. EIT Health brings together leading organisations along the entire value chain from smaller companies to larger industry, excellent academic and research institutions, as well as public sector organisations, to promote healthy living, support active ageing and improve healthcare by removing barriers to innovation, promoting talent and education, leveraging enabling technologies and exploiting big-data. As an EIT-designated KIC, EIT Health can utilise European Commission/EIT funding and leverage the resources of its partner organisations in order to achieve its goals.

EIT Health headquarters will be located in Munich and will develop its activities across a network of co-location centres in six cities: Paris, London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Heidelberg. Those co-location centres are the home-base to 52 core partners and 92 associate partners, some of whom are also located in Hungary, Wales, Poland, Portugal, Croatia and Slovenia and will begin operations in mid-2015.

EIT Health is now seeking to appoint a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Reporting to the CEO, the CFO will support and drive EIT Health’s financial and commercial performance in line with the annual business plan, annual budgets, multi-year plans, and long-term strategic goals that she or he has taken an active role in developing with the CEO and other members of the Management Board. As Such, the CFO will take the lead in developing and maintaining appropriate financial policies and direction, financial administration, business planning and finance input for commercial decision making. Candidates must demonstrate a successful track record of senior leadership with responsibility for strategic financial management and control in a complex, multinational organisation. 

Qualified candidates from all sectors are invited to apply. The position is to be filled by around mid-year and the salary and benefits package will be attractive and commensurate with experience.

Further information, including details of how to apply, can be downloaded atwww.perrettlaver.com/candidates quoting reference 1984. For an initial informal discussion on the role, please contact Joe Fitzpatrick via +44 (0) 207 340 6267 or joe.fitzpatrick@perrettlaver.com The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon CEST on Wednesday 1^st July 2015.