Senior Director Market Strategy CDMO

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies is an industry leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Teesside, United Kingdom; RTP, North Carolina; Holly Springs, North Carolina; Thousand Oaks, California; Hillerød, Denmark; and College Station, Texas. We use our skills, dedication, and ambition to enable impact for the world’s most innovative biotech and biopharma companies reimagining healthcare’s potential.

The Senior Director, Modality Strategy is a senior role and reports into the VP of Global Marketing. In this role, you will lead and own the profitability and growth strategy of one or more of the modalities, namely: Mammalian Cell Culture, Microbial, Advanced Therapies or Drug Product/Finished Goods. You will be responsible for the successful realization of our Partners for Life Strategy and our aspiration to quadruple our revenue by 2030.

You will lead the cross-functional modality team with representation from all key functions, including but not limited to: Finance, Marketing, Communications, Commercial, Operations, Process Development, Global Engineering, Quality, Business Intelligence & Insights, Business Development, and Science & Innovation. You must ensure the involvement, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration required to drive high performance.

The Strategy must ensure a strong value proposition differentiating us from the competition, define the ambition, set the strategic goals and priorities, and align with an actionable kojoX strategy. The Strategy will be presented to the Strategy Decision Forum and Executive Leadership Team for input and approval, including investment requirements.

As the Senior Director, you are responsible for delivering on the service line financial MTP/LTP goals, our kojoX strategy, and the 2030 Partners for Life strategy. Together with the cross-functional team, you will ensure that we deliver on and own the modality strategy, develop solutions to increase efficiency, and ensure that all customer-facing activities align with the overall strategy.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Develop and continuously maintain an updated modality strategy based on market insights.
• Provide insights on market, competitors, and customer needs to identify business synergies and opportunities.
• Ensure all operational, marketing and commercial efforts are aligned and customer-centric.
• Present business case, strategy, and future roadmap recommendations to the Strategy Decision Forum and ELT.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful prioritization and implementation of tactics.
• Develop and socialize a launch playbook to train internal teams on the approved strategy.
• Ensure organizational alignment between the modality strategy, kojoX and our Partners for Life strategies.
• Create evidence-based proof points and case studies that differentiate our offerings.
• Support the development and implementation of dedicated marketing and commercial strategies.
• Drive P/L transparency and insights for continued financial performance improvement.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required in business administration, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience with business strategy leadership, ideally within the CDMO and/or Pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven experience in managing cross-functional teams and driving process improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong business acumen and result driven mindset.

Why work with us? Join our organization in our Global Marketing team during an exciting time at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies! This is a global position that will support all our FDB sites.