Regional Associate Director, Procurement

Position Overview

The Regional AD, Procurement is strategic role of developing world-class procurement processes and frameworks. This role is responsible for managing this function and work closely with Finance, Legal, other functions and 3rd parties to ensure procurement activities are carried out in accordance with company standards. This role will be building and leading a business-driven regional team while utilizing your previous experience and skills within procurement strategy, processes, and negotiation to ensure our procurement-related activities foster success of the organization.

Company Overview

Follow Your Genki to North America's largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO

The work we do at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies 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 FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies 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 more than $2 billion into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest end-to-end cell culture CDMO provider in North America.

 

The new site will offer end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US. In addition to drug substance manufacture, it will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States.

 

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Builds and leads a procurement team as overall responsible for procurement activities for the North Carolina Region (Morrisville & Holly Springs) Develops the procurement function in line with best-in-class standards
• Develops procurement frameworks that maximize the value of purchasing scope by leveraging contracts and agreements across multiple sites, ensuring optimal allocation and utilization of resources.
• Drives the development of supplier negotiation strategies and pricing negotiations with vendors leveraging agreements across multiple sites
• Builds and leads a team of qualified procurement professionals
• Drives initiatives that enhance procurement processes to not only meet but exceed value expectations across both sites, ensuring cost-effectiveness and efficiency
• Facilitates collaboration between the two sites to create unified procurement strategies, enhancing operational efficiencies and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Leads benchmarking, market analysis and cost modeling activities that support procurement efforts
• Ensures compliance to all policies and procedures
• Leads efforts in developing supplier negotiation strategies that encompass multiple site needs, thereby optimizing pricing and supplier relationships
• Ensures that procurement work is well received throughout the organization and supports broader company goals
• Works closely with the legal department and other internal stakeholders of the contract negotiation process to ensure that our contracts protect the company’s interests
• Creates reporting for visibility into procurement and budget performance
• Implements vendor management practices that promote cross-site collaboration, ensuring the organization's procurement goals
• Administers company policies such as time off, shift work, and inclement weather that directly impact employees are consistently met
• Coaches and guides direct reports to foster professional development
• Participates in the recruitment process and retention strategies to attract and retain talent, as needed
• Addresses performance gaps, employee questions and concerns, and partners with HR as needed for resolution
• Performs other duties, as assigned

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong attention to detail, highly organized, and solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, highly interactive environment
• Ability to adapt communication style to differing audiences and advise others on difficult matters
• Effective communication, both written and oral
• Ability to effectively present information to others