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Who We Are
BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that relentlessly pursues bold science to translate genetic discoveries into new medicines that advance the future of human health.
Since our founding in 1997, we have applied our scientific expertise in understanding the underlying causes of genetic conditions to create transformative medicines, using a number of treatment modalities.
Using our unparalleled expertise in genetics and molecular biology, we develop medicines for patients with significant unmet medical need. We enlist the best of the best - people with the right technical expertise and a relentless drive to solve real problems - and create an environment that empowers our teams to pursue bold, innovative science. With this distinctive approach to drug discovery, we've produced a diverse pipeline of commercial, clinical and preclinical candidates that have well-understood biology and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a substantial benefit over existing therapeutic options.
About Technical Operations
BioMarin's Technical Operations group is responsible for creating our drugs for use in clinical trials and for scaling production of those drugs for the commercial market. These engineers, technicians, scientists and support staff build and maintain BioMarin's cutting-edge manufacturing processes and sites, provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure we meet regulatory standards, and procure the needed goods and services to support manufacturing and coordinating the worldwide movement of our drugs to patients.
Head of Product Supply Chain Planning
Reporting to the Head of Global Planning, the Head of Supply Planning is a senior leadership role responsible for managing people, processes, and systems across the entire product portfolio. Leveraging the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework, this role ensures that demand, supply, and lifecycle management are thoroughly assessed to develop the most optimal supply plans.
The Head of Product Supply ensures the successful execution of strategic and tactical planning processes, sales and operations planning (S&OP), and sales and operations execution (S&OE) that balance demand and supply resources and aligns those plans with business objectives for our commercial product portfolio.
The Head of Product Supply will manage a team of Product Supply planners as they execute the planning cycle and support the creation of plans across all the pertinent horizons.
This position supports the organization in making better decisions and balancing service, cost, inventory, sustainability, and risk across the portfolio in close collaboration with the Commercial Supply Chain and Product Supply Chain teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure the optimal planning is executed for our product portfolio in adherence with the S&OP and S&OE processes.
- Collaborate with other departments and stakeholders to establish and maintain resources for an effective supply chain.
- Communicate decisions to stakeholders and identify and resolve plan variances, risks, and opportunities at regional and global levels.
- Through close partnership with the Commercial Supply Chain Organization, ensures alignment on the consensus demand plan driving the supply plan to formulate critical planning assumptions at the aggregate level across our portfolio.
- Serve as the point-person for escalation of product planning scenarios and risk-related issues.
Strategy:
- Identify and implement new business-critical metrics and processes to enhance planning excellence around speed, delivery performance, and cost.
- Collaborate with key cross-functional teams to model scenarios, recommend planning strategies, establish inventory targets, and execute the plan.
- Develop a companywide strategic roadmap to improve planning maturity and align strategic roadmap with key stakeholders across functions, hierarchy, and different parts of the business.
- Contribute to special projects and other supply chain and business strategy initiatives.
- Support annual and strategic planning and direction setting for the planning teams and supply chain function.
Communications:
- Work with business unit leadership to generate a consensus demand plan, consensus supply plan, and a final S&OP plan.
- Influence and collaborate with key partners in marketing, sales, operations, and finance to address input gaps identified by forecast error, bias, volatility review, supplier performance, supply constraints, and other means.
- Manage teams of planners to continually assess operational network planning assumptions in conjunction with procurement, planning, manufacturing operations, and logistics/warehousing.
- Work with cross-functional teams and leadership to identify and analyze potential demand, supply, and inventory risks and opportunities.
- Collaborate with strategic and tactical product leaders on projects such as new product launches, line extensions, product discontinuations, promotions, and events ensuring the optimal planning scenarios are implemented to ensure supply for our patients.
Benchmark & Process Improvement:
- Use supply chain analytics to benchmark and improve all aspects of the planning function, including demand planning and supply planning.
Execution:
- Assist in the development of annual and strategic plans (LRP) and reconcile them with the S&OP plans.
- Drive resolution of gaps to plans and communicate and escalate critical gaps between the plans in the S&OP process.
- Conduct and/or facilitate what-if analysis to create alternate scenarios for reconciling demand, supply, and financial plans at the product level.
- Document the current process description in the S&OP and S&OE playbooks and update when needed.
- Align changes to the process as impacted by other changes (e.g., organizational changes in commercial or finance, company structure, M&A, etc.).
- Develop, implement, and monitor S&OP key performance indicators (KPIs) and course correct behaviors that adversely affect these.
People Leadership:
- Ensure there are departmental performance goals and objectives that the team of product planners can leverage to develop their respective objectives and provide performance feedback related to business objectives.
- Create a training curriculum to support Product Planning Team's development responsibilities.
- Influence teams across the supply chain planning organization to improve their maturity and collaboration through a harmonized product planning playbook maximizing product coverage and optimal support to the planning cycles.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, or other related technical degree. A Master's degree is preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of supply chain management experience, with at least 5 years in a planning leadership role.
- Strong understanding of demand planning, supply and inventory planning, portfolio planning, and integrated planning concepts, principles, and processes.
- Proficiency in supply chain management software applications and tools. Including deployment of control towers and use of advanced analytics for scenario planning.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is required.
- APICS certification and/or supply chain education preferred
- Other continuing education initiatives highly desirable (e.g. Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, industry specific coursework)
Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive, or a limitation of the duties of the position. It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
The salary range for this position is: $190,080 to $285,120. BioMarin considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
For additional benefits information, visit: https://careers.biomarin.com/benefits.
- Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.
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BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
life insurance, paid time off
Apr 16, 2025