Regional Associate Director, Procurement

Location: Holly Springs
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof. We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together! Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity. 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 organizations 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 • Ability to provide feedback to others, including leaders • Advanced problem-solving skills • Demonstrated ability to hire and develop top technical talent to build and lead a high performing team, projects, programs while directing allocation of resources • Must be flexible to support 24/7 manufacturing facility • Must be willing to travel domestic and international, 10-20% Basic Requirements • Master’s degree in Business, Finance or related field with 9 years of experience in procurement ; OR • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or related field with 11 years of experience in procurement OR • Associate’s degree in Business, Finance or related field with 13 years of experience in procurement • 8 years of people management & leadership experience • 5 years’ experience leading large teams in procurement is required • Procurement leadership experience should include sourcing, supplier selection, risk and compliance evaluation, contract negotiation and financial analysis • Excellent communication skills, ability to collaborate and influence are required • Experience and strong understanding of contracts, typical commercial terms and arrangements, and the use of master agreements, statements of work, NDAs, and other standard commercial contract forms is required Preferred Requirements • Prior experience leading strategic procurement initiatives for a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company is preferred • Experience in a cGMP facility or working with FDA regulations is preferred • Prior experience working for a greenfield construction project is preferred • Global collaboration experience is preferred

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