Strategic Sourcing/Category Manager

Do you want to be a part of a success and a journey of significant growth? Are you seeking real influence to create impact through your efforts?

You have the opportunity now to become part of this with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB). While expanding our existing footprint to build the largest End-to-end CDMO across both Europe and North America.

We are looking for a new colleague to join our team, and to be leading Sourcing Categories within the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Operations).

Your New Role
Is located geographically at our site in Hillerød, and organizationally anchored in our Global Sourcing & Procurement team. This position supports broadly within the mentioned spend categories, and in maturing our approach to how we source professionally and structured within this significant and growing spend area. You will be taking full ownership of the collaboration with our internal stakeholders, as well as building bridges between our company and our key suppliers. It is a plus to have experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, and if you have worked within an MRO team earlier.

Your area of responsibilities:

• Professionalizing Sourcing & Category Management within your Category.
• Prioritizing and executing sourcing projects and identify cross-site synergies across FDB.
• Market analysis and evaluation of existing and new suppliers.
• Ensuring proper contract coverage for the suppliers under the categories.
• Close interaction with stakeholders to align priorities support the business with relevant advice or action.
• Proactively Manage external business relationships to ensure improvement in performance of the supplier base.
• Be a great team player and contribute to becoming the greatest place to work!

Skills & Knowledge, we hope you possess

• MSc in business administration, supply chain management or similar.
• 3-5 years proven experience within Sourcing or Supply Chain – It could be as Sourcing Project Manager, Category Manager, Sourcing Manager, or similar type of roles.
• You have professional proficiency in English. Danish is useful, but not required.
• GxP knowledge and/or MRO experience are preferred.

We hope you are

• An outcome focused, strong communicator with the ability to create buy-in and drive change across functional and organizational boundaries.
• You have a positive customer focused mindset, are self-driven and good at prioritizing your time.

Your New Team & Department
You will become a part of a very ambitious and relatively new but rapidly developing team, where we are taking ownership of strategic and tactical sourcing aspects for our business - from category strategy development and until implementation at both Global, Regional and Site level. Our team covers all sourcing needs within Direct Spend and Indirect Spend areas.

The work environment is international and informal. We keep a high pace and focus on a vital life balance while having fun. We put a strong emphasis on psychological safety through trust and empowerment within our teams and hope that this is something that speaks to you as well.

Your application
So, would you like to join us on this fantastic journey, being part of our Global Sourcing & Procurement team? Then please apply for this position by uploading your CV and application in English.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies is an industry-leading Biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Hillerød, Denmark, Teesside, UK, RTP, North Carolina and College Station, Texas, USA. We use our skills, dedication, and ambition to enable impact for the world’s most innovative biotech and biopharma companies reimagining healthcare’s potential. We work across the entire lifecycle of our customers’ products – enabling success throughout. Every cure, vaccine, biologic, and advancement we contribute to starts with our people and our passion. We fuel one another’s passion, help accelerate progress, expand capabilities, strengthen innovation, and improve processes to improve lives.

Our site in Hillerød, Denmark, brings together expertise, capabilities, and technologies to manufacture advanced biologics. The large-scale manufacturing facility has a capacity of 120,000 liters to reliably manufacture biologics for late phase and commercial use. We commenced 6 billion DKK projects to double our manufacturing capacity and to add fill finish to the site.

We offer the chance to be part of a global workplace where passion, drive and commitment are met with opportunities for professional and personal development. Deeply committed to diversity and inclusion, we ensure that everyone no matter their background or gender has an opportunity to develop. We take pride in enriching our communities, caring for our environment, and cultivating a world of opportunity for future generations.

We aim to foster a collaborative, innovative and rewarding environment, where diverse perspectives and people come together united by a common purpose and shared values. We pursue our fullest potential as individual contributors and team members. We strive to be the employer of choice and offer a competitive compensation and benefit package. As we continue to enhance and expand our capabilities, we are looking for people who share our passion, drive, and energy – what we call Genki – to join our team.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Denmark (FDBD) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identify or any other protected class.

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Location: FDBD Hillerod