Associate Manager, CI & Projects – Maternity Cover (12 months)
FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
We’re seeking an Associate Manager, CI & Projects on a fixed-term maternity cover to set direction, create alignment, and secure progress across the department.
About The Role
In this temporary role, you will lead the area strategy and CI portfolio, tightly aligned with site priorities. You will plan and facilitate strategic workshops, build capability and leadership behaviors, and enable teams to run improvement initiatives. You will own portfolio management, performance management, and reporting, and act as the department’s change manager to embed sustainable ways of working. The role includes direct line management of the CI/Projects team, including hiring, performance, and development in line with company policies.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the area strategy process and define CI/portfolio strategy aligned with site priorities.
- Translate strategy into a roadmap, objectives, and success metrics; embed core values in decisions and behaviors.
- Plan and facilitate strategic workshops and cross-functional initiatives; remove bottlenecks.
- Design learning and leadership activities that build skills, mindsets, and the ability to drive excellence.
- Enable others’ workshops by ensuring sponsorship, clear scope, resources, risk management, and timely escalation.
- Govern and prioritize the portfolio; maintain a visual overview; balance capacity and dependencies.
- Partner with the council, Business Transformation, and OPEX/CI partners for governance and alignment.
- Assess culture and operating systems; identify gaps and standardize processes and management systems.
- Ensure KPI and data integrity; define and track cultural and operational measures; prepare dashboards and facilitate reviews.
- Report to functional representatives and the council; escalate roadblocks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Directly manage the CI/Projects team, including hiring, performance management, and development planning.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biopharma industry within a GMP environment.
- Strong knowledge of GMP regulations and quality systems.
- Proven track record driving systemic, sustainable change: strategy deployment, cultural transformation, and change management.
- Effective collaboration across QA, QC, Manufacturing/Operations, and MSAT/Process Development.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.
- Ability to influence without authority and deliver results using structured CI/lean methods (e.g., A3/PDCA, Kaizen, visual management, portfolio/project management).
- Education: Relevant degree (e.g., engineering, pharmacy, life sciences, or equivalent).
- Methods/tools: CI/Lean, A3/PDCA, Kaizen, visual management, portfolio management, KPI design and dashboarding.
- Language: Fluent English; Danish is a plus but not required.
Has this sparked your interest? Then please send us your resume and a cover letter detailing your experience and why you are the perfect fit for this role as soon as possible, as we conduct interviews on an on-going basis.
Working at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
We offer a competitive compensation package in a site/company growing rapidly, with many opportunities for individual growth, we also offer access to fitness and an attractive canteen.
FUJIFILM 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 Manufacturing site in Hillerød, Denmark, brings together a complete range of expertise, capabilities, and technologies to manufacture advanced biologics. 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.
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.
FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Denmark 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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