Principal IT Business Relationship Partner

Position Overview

Help us connect strategy to outcomes. FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is hiring a Principal IT Business Relationship Partner (BRP) to serve as the primary liaison between Global IT and our site/business leaders. You will translate business priorities into actionable IT roadmaps, shape portfolio decisions, and guide delivery-elevating service reliability, compliance, and user experience in a regulated biopharma environment.

Company Overview

The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies has never been more important-and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people's lives.

Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help make the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive - what we call Genki.


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:

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Partner with site/business leadership as the trusted IT liaison - run governance cadences, set expectations, and drive engagement plans.
• Translate strategy into IT demand and multi-quarter roadmaps; align to portfolio and capacity; build business cases, sequence work, and track benefits realization.
• Elicit and document requirements; define solution options and tradeoffs; align to enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data integrity, and compliance.
• Coordinate cross functional delivery (FTE/contractors); manage RAIDD items; provide executive updates on status, risks, decisions, and mitigations.
• Act as escalation point for service restoration; analyze incident/problem trends (MTTR, backlog); drive continual service improvement using ITIL practices.
• Build KPI/OKR dashboards; synthesize data into recommendations that quantify cost, risk, and outcome impacts.
• Apply governance (ITIL, PMO, change control) and regulated environment expectations (cGMP, CSV/CSA, data integrity, SOX relevant controls); support audits/CAPAs.
• Liaise with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Enterprise Apps, QA/ITQ, PMO, Procurement/Finance, and vendors to align deliverables to standards, SLAs, and site needs.
• Identify friction points; propose policy/standard updates; contribute to BRM playbooks, intake models, and engagement templates.
• Support the global Digital Strategy and Operations (DS&) domain with ongoing process improvement recommendations, strategic problem solving with DS&O colleagues, and consultation with other BT&DS domains on specific topics related to IT best practices in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of related work experience with a Bachelor's; or 8+ years with a Master's; or 6+ years with a PhD.
• Within the above, 7+ years in a Senior IT Engineer, Product/Program Management role, or similar.
• Within the above, 3+ years in a Business Relationship Management/Partner role.
• Demonstrated management/leadership positions in complex, matrixed enterprises.
• Experience supporting biopharma/biotech manufacturing or comparable regulated industries strongly preferred (exposure to DSM/DPM operations beneficial).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Information Systems, Science, Engineering, or Business.
• Certifications: ITIL Foundation v3/v4, BRM Institute (BRMP), PMP/PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum (PSM/CSM), Lean/Six Sigma.
• Experience with portfolio/demand management, PMO processes, value realization, organizational change management, and executive-level reporting.

Our programs are designed to focus on maintaining and enhancing all pillars of health with a robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage with the option of a Health Savings Account with company contributions. In addition, we offer an industry leading 401(k)savings plan, insurance coverage, employee assistance programs and various wellness incentives. We support life-work balance with paid vacation time, sick time, and company holidays. Explore a supportive environment that enriches both your personal and professional growth!

As part of any recruitment process, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organisation is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process with hiring managers in Europe and the United States.

This is a global position that will support all FUJIFILM Biotechnologies sites. This position can be based at any of our locations around the globe. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site.

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.

EEO Information

Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

ADA Information

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department (View email address on hirelifescience.com).