Principal, Digital Transformation Lead

Fujifilm•College Station, TX

12h•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal, Digital Transformation Lead is responsible for driving disciplined intake, reconciliation, and prioritization, translating business ideas into secure, compliant, and scalable solutions; enabling consistent delivery and sustained value at Fujifilm Biotechnologies, Texas. The Lead will bring over 8 years of experience, preferably in a CDMO environment, and with experience in Digitization, Improvement methodologies, and process management in a regulated environment. The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Texas has never been more important—and we are looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. From developing the next vaccine to advancing cell and gene therapies, we collaborate with industry leaders to tackle complex challenges and deliver meaningful solutions. If you’re ready to help transform the future of medicine, join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies. We offer a flexible work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Our state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility is located in in College Station, Texas, which combines a small-town feel with vibrant culture, top-notch schools, and close proximity to big city life. Nestled between major hubs, it’s a dynamic location that blends convenience with innovation. 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.”

Requirements

Ability to foster strategic relationships.
Familiarity with modern data and AI tools and how they move from experiment to production.
Understanding of AI risk, privacy, and documentation needs in regulated settings.
Experience turning AI ideas into measurable business outcomes.
Demonstrated business acumen and data-driven approach to problem solving.
Demonstrated delivery of projects, risk management and cultivating a collaborative problem-solving culture.
Demonstrated project and process delivery skills, including the ability to provide accurate project planning, milestone delivery, project management, and effective status updates.
Tech-Savvy, proficiency with key coding languages such as Python and Java.
Strong communication (written and oral) and presentation skills, effectively engaging, facilitating, with the ability to influence and collaborate with others.
Focused on operational income, productivity, efficiency, simplification, right first time in project delivery.
Ability to influence across the organization without formal authority.
Ability to prioritize multiple projects, perform complex tasks, organize and complete workload consistently.
Ability to identify, recommend and implement opportunities for streamlining team and business processes to reduce costs and improve efficiencies.
Master’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; OR, Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience managing continuous improvement initiatives in a cGMP facility or highly regulated environment.
Experience in technology and product delivery in a CDMO environment.
Experience working in a biologics or gene therapy manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

Lead a portfolio of digitization and AI projects that are secure, compliant, and scalable in a regulated manufacturing environment.
Facilitate engagement, Tech/AI discovery workshops; document problem, users, and outcomes; inventory data sources; identify overlaps; tag risk and compliance needs.
Partner with idea owner to firm-up opportunity briefs, process maps, KPI trees (leading/lagging), cost/benefit, assess system/data readiness and pre-screens, etc.
Collaborate with core team to prepare gate packages, assess value drivers, target architecture options, recommend prioritization based on impact, capacity, and strategic alignment.
Write/refine user stories and acceptance criteria; coordinate SMEs; plan UAT (scripts, functional), support bias/robustness/security test readiness; ensure change/comms inputs.
Orchestrate handover to Product Owners, ensure dashboards / alerts; collect user feedback, maintain the data / product repository – backlog, upgrades, etc., and lessons learned.
Partner with Global IT on policies, model / data documentation, and audit trails; partner with Privacy/Legal/Information Security as needed, promote / embed OPEX continuous improvement mindset.
Mentor select members on vibe coding practices; contribute to SOPs, templates, and pre‑approved patterns; run micro‑trainings on intake and value tracking.