Sr. Director of Strategy, Execution and Digitalization, Large Scale

Overview

Follow Your Genki to the largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO in Europe and in North America.

The work we do at FDB has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FDB and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki.

 

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing significantly into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States as well as expanding our manufacturing site in Denmark to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest network of end-to-end cell culture CDMO facilities in the world.

 

Our new sites will offer a network of end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US and in Europe. In addition to drug substance manufacture, our sites will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services.

External US

We are currently looking for a Sr. Director of Strategy, Execution and Digitalization, Large Scale Manufacturing to join our Cross-site leadership team of our two Large Scale facilities – in Denmark and in North Carolina.

 

As Sr. Director of Strategy, Execution and Digitalization, you will lead a number of functions (some directly, some in a matrix) to ensure the strategic & operational alignment & execution of our sites in the Large Scale Network.

 

Reporting to the COO and EVP of the Large Scale Business Unit, you will ramp up the Strategy and Execution Function, while driving the establishment of the Large Scale Business Unit Leadership team. Once in full function, the Strategy and Execution area will own and drive the creation of a Large Scale business strategy & Operating Model, ensure strategic Communications & Change Management to enable our People First Culture, as well as drive the executive support needed for the leadership team. All Larger projects, such as owning and driving our Large Scale ESG agenda will likewise fall to your area of responsibility, and so will the oversight of our consultancy spend across the Large Scale BU. You will become the nerve center of many of the instrumental activities and life-nerve of the Large Scale business unit.

 

To succeed in this role, you thrive being the driver of multiple initiatives of various complexity, you are a naturally born leader who people want to follow and you come with years of experience in navigating complexities, steering committees, business cases and c-suite leadership teams.

 

• Support COO of Large-Scale BU in standup and buildout of the large scale business unit leadership team.
• Facilitate formulation of Large Scale strategy - aligned across commercial and site functions.
• Lead implementation plan and execution of Large Scale strategy towards our Partner for life and KojoX ambitions.
• Responsible for formulating and executing the ESG agenda across the Large Scale business unit, ensuring delivery on a 2030 ESG strategy
• Drive strategic communication in a consistent, compelling & aligned voice through appropriate channels to enhance sense of LS belonging and a people first culture
• Planning and facilitation of Large Scale Leadership initiatives, meetings and offsites to ensure a strong Large Scale Leadership Team collaboration and cohesion.
• Design operational- and governance model of the BU structure including SteerCos for larger projects, SLTs and mandates across
• Manage Consultant spend and usage across Large Scale BU sites
• Drive the design and execution of a Operational Excellence program across the Large Scale Business Unit.
• Consistently drive strategic organizational design and execution across the Large Scale functions.
• Prioritization of bigger strategic projects, including Quarterly Business Review to ensure ROI in tight collaboration with finance and commercial.
• Ensure that Large Scale BU initiatives involves and aligns with the People First culture we proudly have built.
• Ensure effective communication and alignment of objectives between the business unit and individual production sites.
• Drive and execute special projects as needed from the LS leadership team and COO.
• Ensure senior leadership have the executive support they