Director, Value Chain Product Leader, Global Supply Chain

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.

Our manufacturing and process development teams manage the production of our therapies for clinical trials and commercial markets. These engineers, technicians, scientists, and support professionals continually provide quality assurance and ensure we meet all regulatory standards. We have manufacturing facilities in Northern California and in Cork, Ireland. Additionally, our supply chain teams procure the goods and services needed to support manufacturing and worldwide distribution.

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.

Director, Value Chain Product Leader

• Fully remote role, travel dependent on business need, Candidates must be based in the US
• The Value Chain Product Leader is accountable for designing,
• operating
• , and continuously improving a best

in

class, end

to

• end value chain that reliably connects patients to medicines. This role provides focused,
• end-to-end
• accountability for the product value chain within a defined scope, ensuring alignment to product strategy, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements.
• As a matrix leader, the Value Chain Product Leader leads the
• Product (s)
• functional

Value Stream Team (VST) and

represents

Supply Chain on TOPS Product Teams (TPTs)

for

• assets on
• development
• . The role ensures a compliant, robust, resilient, and
• cost-effective
• supply chain across clinical and commercial stages of the product lifecycle.
• The Value Chain Product Leader proactively manages risk, drives lifecycle and network strategies, and leads mitigation when patient
• level supply risks are
• identified
• , including supply assessments that inform Global Issue Management and regulatory notification decisions.

Key Accountabilities

End-to-end

Value Chain Ownership

• Own the design, performance, and continuous improvement of the product value chain, aligned to enterprise strategy and standards.
• Ensure reliable supply of quality
• products
• to patients across clinical and commercial stages.
• Deliver products to markets
• in accordance with
• defined service and
• lead time
• targets.

Product Lifecycle & Strategy Execution

• Drive the product lifecycle management roadmap,
• optimizing
• lead time, cost, and resilience.
• Define and execute product and network strategies, including flow of goods, SKU strategy, and inventory strategy.

Identify

• and champion strategic investments
• required
• to support growth, resilience, and
• long-term
• sustainability.

Risk Management & Business Continuity

Proactively

• identify
• , assess, and communicate risks
• impacting
• product quality, compliance, patient supply, and business continuity.
• Lead mitigation strategies and escalation for actionable supply risks, including
• patient-level
• stockout scenarios.
• Own business continuity, supply chain efficiency, and agility
• plans
• to ensure program
• objectives
• are met.

Financial & Performance Management

• Own inventory health, key supply chain cost drivers, and
• trade
• ‑
• offs
• between service, cost, and risk.

Ensure

• accurate
• product costing, including development and maintenance of standard costs.

Enable

data driven

,

• risk-based
• decision making across the value chain.

Governance & Business Partnership

Serve as the primary voice of the product in relevant business forums, including brand reviews, regional reviews, and portfolio governance.

Define the target operating model for the product value chain, including roles, processes, and decision rights across Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and external partners.

Build strong strategic partnerships with Commercial, Clinical, Technical Operations, and Enterprise functions.

Leadership Responsibility

The Value Chain Product Leader is a matrix leader responsible for leading

cross functional

teams accountable for executing product value chain strategies within their respective functions.

The role provides coaching and development to team members on product and value chain requirements, monitors performance against deliverables, and provides feedback to functional management on individual performance and development needs.

Key Interfaces

TOPS Product Teams

Supply Planning & Demand Planning

Clinical Supply Chain Operations

Commercial & Clinical Operations

Manufacturing & Material Operations

Procurement & Category Management

Enterprise Master Data Management

Legal, Tax, Product Costing & Finance

Logistics

(Cold Chain, Warehousing & Distribution)

Product Development & Formulation

Packaging Development & Validation

Environmental Health & Safety

Global Trade Compliance

Quality Control & Quality Assurance

Qualified Person / Responsible Person

Product Artwork & Launch Management

Minimum

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (BS/BSc) in life sciences, engineering, supply chain, or business administration, with 8–12+ years in materials management/production planning/scheduling, 5–10+ years in GMP/GCP compliant pharmaceutical operations, and 2–5+ years leading global, cross functional, matrixed teams.

Strong supply chain and value chain management

expertise

,

ERP

• expertise
• (Oracle or SAP preferred), pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks (GMP, ICH),
• risk
• and project/program management
• .
• Demonstrated capability to assess issues across Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing perspectives

E

• xecutive
• ‑
• level
• communication,
• influence
• ‑
• based
• leadership,
• cross
• ‑
• cultural
• /global execution, strategic and operational thinking, continuous
• improvement
• and process excellence mindset

W

• illingness to travel internationally as
• required
• .

Nice to Have

MBA (Supply Chain, Finance, or Business Operations preferred)

APICS or equivalent supply chain certification

Lean / DMAIC certification (Green Belt or higher)

PMP or equivalent project management certification

Biopharmaceutical operations experience

Strong financial and business acumen

Advanced regulatory and GMP

expertise

, including ICH Q8–Q12

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.