FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation (HLUS) is seeking an accomplished, talented, and highly motivated individual to serve as Division General Counsel, HLUS and Global General Counsel for its FUJIFILM Biotechnologies (FLB) business, a world-leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines and advanced therapies.

Reporting to the VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of HLUS, this individual will serve as the leader of FLB’s global legal team. The person in this role will be an accomplished lawyer with extensive experience in the pharmaceutical space, will have strong leadership experience and business acumen.  The individual will play a critical role in helping FLB manage new and evolving legal risks, issues and strategy, and in achieving unprecedented business success.

This individual will be a member of both the HLUS legal leadership team and the FLB Business Support leadership team, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the FLB CFO.

This is an onsite position located in Morrisville, North Carolina.

With connections across the FLB business, as well as HLUS and the wider FUJIFILM group, the General Counsel, FLB will be uniquely positioned to spot risks and issues arising in one business area and understand their impacts elsewhere to influence and enable senior management to make informed, business-driven decisions. The successful candidate will be expected to direct legal strategy in a way that enables maximization of business opportunity within tolerable risk parameters.

At FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation, we’re redefining innovation across the industries we touch—from healthcare and photography to semiconductors and data storage. With roots in photosensitive materials and a legacy of groundbreaking technology, we now lead 23 diverse affiliate businesses across the Americas.

We’re looking for mission-driven talents eager to join us to help create, market, and support a vast portfolio of products. At Fujifilm you’ll have the opportunity to explore and grow your skills in new, exciting ways. Whether you’re shaping tomorrow’s tech or redefining today’s processes, we’ll provide a flexible work environment and dynamic culture where innovation thrives.

Our Americas HQ is nestled in Valhalla, New York, a charming town known for its excellent schools, beautiful parks, and easy access to the vibrancy of New York City.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

About Fujifilm Biotechnologies:

FLB is a world-leading (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines and advanced therapies. With over 30 years of experience, FLB specializes in developing and manufacturing biopharmaceuticals using microbial, mammalian, and host/virus systems. With over 4,800 employees, FLB operates a fully integrated, kojoXTM global network with major facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Japan (forthcoming). FLB’s kojoXTM manufacturing network ensures supply chain agility for its customers through modular facilities and standardized processes for seamless scaling and technology transfers. FLB offers comprehensive services, ranging from proprietary cell line development, to process and analytical development, and through to clinical and commercial manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a world class Legal team.
• Helping to guide the business through legal issues arising in times of change and to meet commercial objectives, operating as a business enabler and an essential adviser to the FLB Executive Leadership team (ELT) while at the same time maintaining autonomy and standards and the ability to provide independent counsel.
• Setting and executing the legal strategy for the global FLB businesses.
• Providing appropriate legal training and mentoring to the Legal team.
• Ensuring the global Legal team provides expert level support for commercial negotiations with customers in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Ensuring the business is protected by the use of commercial agreements that mitigate risks and protect legal rights (based on calculated and predetermined business risk appetite).
• Ensuring a portfolio of large capex projects receives expert legal support from the Legal Team.
• Providing strategic and expert legal advice on mergers and acquisitions and as a point of escalation for resolution of legal issues for other matters handled by the wider team.
• Setting and implementing internal governance policies and managing the impact of external legal factors on the business.
• Anticipating and identifying legal issues and risks that may impact the business; identifying proactive and strategic solutions that will eliminate or mitigate such risks/issues.
• Basing decisions on law and regulation, ethics and integrity, and creating associations of trust and respect with key stakeholders.
• Keeping abreast of legislative changes and providing advice/strategic direction in relation to the same.
  Supporting the objectives of and collaborating with the legal teams of the other Regional Headquarters (RHQs) of Fujifilm.
• Responsible for reporting legal issues and risk to RHQs and Fujifilm HQs as required and necessary.
• Introducing technology to deliver more efficient  legal services to enable the team to focus on higher-value and more engaging work.
• Identifying, appointing and managing external legal resources as appropriate ensuring value for money and business-accessible (yet still expert) advice.
• An ability to regularly travel internationally to support face-to-face meetings with colleagues and customers.

Required Skills/Education:

• Excellent academic credentials including a J.D. from an accredited law school. Licensed to practice in North Carolina or admitted to a State Bar of any US State or the District of Columbia
• At least fifteen (15) years of legal experience gained through a combination of law firm and in-house experience is preferred.
• At least seven (7) years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Experience leading legal teams in an in-house legal department is required.
• Deep contract drafting and negotiation skills in complex transactions in highly regulated industries.
• Ability to balance counsel against complex pressures while maximizing the interests of FLB.
• A strategic and analytical thinker, able to apply leading-edge legal knowledge influentially at all levels within FLB.

Desired Skills:

• Highly advanced interpersonal, relationship-building, and influencing skills are required to support a complex FLB matrix organization, the wider Fujifilm Group, and across client/vendor organizations.
• Ability to act with autonomy, objectivity, and independence at all times even when under pressure to find solutions to business issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator.
• Adept at collaborating (business partnering) across divisions, functions, and geography, with a skill for engaging colleagues at all levels in projects and processes while continuing to own and drive them.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Paid Time Off

Agency Note:

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Fujifilm about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Fujifilm via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Fujifilm, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Fujifilm for this requisition and a valid agreement with Fujifilm is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the Fujifilm agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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