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Product Supply Chain Owner - Associate Director
San Rafael, CA

Associate Director, Product Supply Chain Owner\u00A0BioMarin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options. BioMarin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.BioMarin\u2019s 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\u2019s 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. Come join our team and make a meaningful impact on patients\u2019 lives.\u00A0\u00A0SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:\u00A0The Product Supply Chain Owner (PSCO) is accountable for designing and implementing best-in-class supply chains, seamlessly connecting patients to our medicines. The PSCO is a matrix leader, responsible for leading cross-functional Product Supply Chain partner team. The PSCO is a member of one or more Chemical, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) product teams, with accountability to ensure that a compliant, robust, and resilient supply chain has been configured in alignment with the product strategy for their assigned product. Product Supply Chain Owner builds resilience and secures supply of quality product to patients by working with their sub-team members and key stakeholders to establish and optimize supply chain for clinical and commercial products.\u00A0 Product Supply Chain Owner drives strategies that result in optimizing product and network strategies.\u00A0 They are accountable for supply chain configuration (flow of goods, SKU strategy and inventory strategy), business continuity plans, supply chain efficiency plans, and supply chain agility plans to accurate product costing (including development of standard costs) ensure assigned product(s) meet program objectives.\u00A0 When an actionable risk of patient level stock out is identified, the Product Supply Chain Owner leads mitigation, including the supply assessment that is the basis of the Global Issue Management evaluation and decision-making relative to notification of Regulatory Agencies.\u00A0 Key interfaces include\u00A0CMC team membersSupply PlanningDemand PlanningClinical Supply Chain OperationsCommercial & Clinical OperationsManufacturing & Material OperationsProcurement & Category ManagementEnterprise Master Data ManagementLegal, Tax, Product Costing and FinanceLogistics (Cold Chain, Warehouse & Distribution)Product Development & FormulationPackaging Development & ValidationEnvironmental Health & SafetyGlobal Trade ComplianceQuality Control & Quality AssuranceQualified Person and Responsible PersonProduct Artwork & Launch Management\u00A0Leadership Responsibility:\u00A0Product Supply Chain Owner is a matrix leader, responsible for leading cross-functional teams of 10-15 functional leaders, who are responsible for executing product supply chain strategies within their functions.\u00A0 PSCO provides coaching and development to team members on product and supply chain requirements for their products.\u00A0 PSCO measures performance of team members to achieve deliverables and provide feedback to functional management on team member\u2019s overall performance and development needs.\u00A0Must have: Minimum Requirements:BS/B.Sc., preferably in the life science, engineering, supply chain or business administrationMinimum 6 years of materials management, production planning and scheduling experienceMinimum 4 years GMP/GCP compliant Pharmaceutical operations experienceMinimum 2 years management experience.Strong supply chain management acumenSubject-matter expertise in ERP systems, preferably Oracle or SAPGood understanding of Pharmaceutical industry (regulatory environment, GMP and ICH Guidelines)Strong risk management analysis and project management skillsEffective ability to educate and lead through influence management, team members and cross-functional peers.Effective executive level communication (oral, and written)Ability to operate globally, across different time-zones, work with global and regional functions.Strong ability to make risk-based decisions and escalate to executive management when appropriate.Ability to understand the big picture and focus or execute the details to deliver product strategies; strategic thinker with operative capabilitiesAbility to understand impact of unique issues from multiple functional perspectives including Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to assess best optionsBusiness process thinker.\u00A0 Drives for continuous improvement of business process to achieve product strategies.Provides coaching and manages work activities for projects and teams.Can accommodate required international travel\u00A0Nice to have:-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 MBA, preferably in supply chain management, finance or business operations-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 APICS certification or equivalent supply chain certification-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 Lean-DMAIC expertise, preferably Green Belt Certified or higher-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 Project management certification, PMP or equivalent.-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 Biopharmaceutical and/or Gene & Cell Therapy operations experience-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 Strong finance and business acumen-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 Strong regulatory and GMP acumen, specifically ICH Q8-12-\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 Matrix leadership experience. Experience managing global, multicultural, multi-functional and remote teams in a matrix organization\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0






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