Senior Director, Marketing Value Stream Leader

Fujifilm Senior Director, Marketing Value Stream Leader Salt Lake City, Utah Apply Now

The Senior Director, Value Stream is a senior role anchored in the Marketing team reporting into the VP of Marketing. In this role, you are the global steward of one of our currently four business critical services (Mammalian Cell Culture, Microbial, Advanced Therapies and Drug Product/Finished Goods) vital for successful realization of our Partners for Life Strategy and our aspiration to quadruple our revenue by 2030.

You will lead the cross-functional Value Stream team with representation from all key functions, including but not limited to: Finance, Marketing, Communications, Commercial, Operations (sites), Process Development, Global Engineering, Quality (QA/QC/Regulatory), KojoX Strategy, Business Intelligence & Insights, Business Development and Science & Innovation.

At FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, an exciting opportunity awaits you to collaborate with some of the most innovative biopharma companies worldwide. Here you will have the chance to learn from some of the most dedicated scientists, engineers, and manufacturers who are deeply committed to making an impact on people’s lives. We strive for better. Our people never settle for the status quo and as you push the boundaries of your potential, you not only change your life, you change others’ too. Join us as a Senior Director, Marketing - Value Stream and commit your life’s work to impacting where it matters most: human lives.

In this role, you will be leading the establishment of and delivery on dedicated end-to-end service strategy together with the Value Stream team. You must ensure the involvement, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration and coordination required to drive high performance. The Value Stream Strategy must ensure a strong value proposition differentiating FDB from competition. It shall define the ambition, cater to an actionable KojoX strategy, and set the strategic goals.

As the Senior Director, you are responsible for delivering on the financial MTP/LTP goals, our KojoX strategy and the 2030 Partners for Life strategy. Together with the Value Stream team you ensure that we deliver on and own the value stream of a modality, develop solutions to increase efficiency, and ensure that all customer-facing activities align with the overall Value Stream strategy.

In this highly visible role, you will support allocation and management of resources, including budget, personnel, and technology to support Strategic Business Services activities through our value proposition. You will have P&L transparency and impact and the ability to have a significant effect using your highly consultative skills without having direct authority.

The successful candidate will focus on continuous improvement, clear direction, cohesiveness, transparency, and alignment ensuring that all actions across the value stream are customer-centric and deliver value to the target audience.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Define, deliver and optimize our value proposition with the Marketing and Commercial teams on strategy and tactics.
2. Determine how it will fit into our key account set-ups as a CDMO and how we engage with the biotech industry, and how we will continue to harmonize the Marketing and Commercial functions.
3. Operate for unprecedented delivery to ensure we deliver in the business for our Program Management operations.
4. Lead for the future on modality and collaborate with our Business Development team on where the Company expands business; perform gap analyses to determine where the Company can become more competitive and how we strengthen our overall business strategy.
5. Support development and implementation of dedicated marketing and commercial strategies that align with the overall business goals and ensure a robust pipeline that can fill the Value Stream capacity (short, mid, and long term).
6. Create and maintain full overview through value stream maps and capacity understanding of operational footprint along S&OP overview to ensure this.
7. Drive P/L (Revenue, ROS, PM, EBITDA etc.) transparency and understanding as well as continued financial performance improvement.
8. Track operational performance to ensure high customer trust and satisfaction.
9. Identify areas for improvement and ensure that cross-functional Value Stream input and priorities (opportunities, risks, and challenges etc.) are reflected in innovation and business development strategies.
10. Ensure that all marketing as well as commercial efforts are customer-centric and deliver value to the target audience.

Background Requirements and Education :

1. Bachelor’s degree required in business administration, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field (preferred). Master’s degree preferred.
2. 15+ years of experience with business strategy leadership.
3. Proven experience in a role to manage cross-functional teams and drive process improvements.
4. Clear understanding of marketing processes and value stream management (product ownership).
5. Advanced experience in project management and improvement, including planning, executing, and monitoring projects, is essential. Familiarity with methodologies like Agile or Lean can be particularly beneficial.
6. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and concisely.
7. Proficiency in creating visually compelling presentations using tools like Microsoft PowerPoint.
8. Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
9. Strategic thinker with analytical capabilities to gather and synthesize information for decision-making.
10. Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
11. A broad and sufficiently deep end-to-end understanding of the Value Stream (Mammalian Cell Culture, Advanced Therapies, Drug Product/Finished Goods, or Microbial) as well as knowledgeable in the pharmaceutical value chain of our customers.
12. Strong business acumen.
13. Result driven mindset with a proven ability to influence multiple functions across an organization.

Although this may be a remote posting, the incumbent must reside within a reasonable commuting distance from one of the FDB US locations. The US salary range for this position is $220,000 to $300,000. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This is a global position that will support all our FDB sites. Benefits will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site.

As part of any recruitment process, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organisation is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

FDBU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

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