Shanbally Site Planning Lead

Location:  Cork, Ireland Category: Supply Chain

Hiring Manager: Jim Hackett ([email protected])

Description

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.

Our Culture

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.

BioMarin Shanbally, Site Planning Lead

Closing Date - 31st October 2024 

BioMarin 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’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. Come join our team and make a meaningful impact on patients’ lives.
 
Position Summary
Reporting to the Director of Supply Chain Operations, the Shanbally  Site Planning Leader will be responsible for ensuring site scheduling processes & performance are delivering with excellence for the end to end manufacturing in Shanbally, Cork and BioMarin global customers. This scope for this role is the full site, Biologics manufacturing drug substance, drug product (vial and syringe filling)  and final packaging across all functions.  
  
RESPONSIBILITIES
Customer Commitments ( Patient & Internal Clients )
  • Ensures uninterrupted supply of commercial drug product to our patients globally. Responsible for driving and delivering   ATS ( Adherence to Schedule ) to ensure safety stocks in the Distribution centres meet patient needs
  • Leads all activities relating to the Planning & Scheduling of the Shanbally site. The Drug Substance, Drug Product ( Filling) and Final Pack Schedules across the End to End (E2E) processes across the S&OP
  • Develops and Deploys the strategic and long range plan
  • Leads preparation and presentation of cross functional planning scenarios as necessary with quick turn-around, high accuracy, well vetted and documented assumptions, and that are readily supportable by the team.
  • Leads improvement of key performance metrics related to Supply Chain and S&OP effectiveness and track progress of improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure the continuous development and optimization of the Global Planning processes. Support technology solutions that can enhance current and future Supply Planning requirements.
  • Owns and continuously improves the planning processes. Leads the deployment of best practices and maturing of the site planning processes through the SAP deployment & IBP Execution.
  • Manages the quarterly capacity review process.
  • Drives the improvement of the processes, systems, tools and capabilities within the organization pertaining to the site planning teams
 
People Management
  • Leads and manages the site master scheduler as well a team of planners and schedulers  (circa 10 people).  Builds the team and capabilities for the future growth needs of the business.
 
Stakeholder Management and Engagement
  • Forge a seamless relationship with all cross functional stakeholders in the supply chain product space which includes PSCO’s ( Product Supply Chain Owners), Global Supply Planners, Materials Planners,  Manufacturing Operations (DS, DP & Packaging) , Quality, Engineering, Warehousing,  Supply Planning, Network Supply Planning,  and Regulatory.
  • Establish highly structured and standardized ways of working across with functional teams sitewide that will deliver continuous value add initiatives.
  • CI - Prioritize and lead year over year initiatives to continuously enhance capabilities.
  • Drive best practice adoption across Business Units
  • Partner with Supply & Demand Planning to ensure availability of an aligned Demand Plan for downstream Supply Chain Planning activities for specified products.
  • Drives root cause analysis and lead resolution management of Supply Risks
  • Manages and maintains E2E Planning Parameters, Business Rules and Master Data to a high level of accuracy.
 
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 
 
Educational
·B.Sc. in Supply Chain
·Supply Chain Qualification APICS certification desirable.
 
Experience
· Minimum 10 years’ hands on  leadership experience of Sales & Operation Planning, Demand Management, Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Data Analytics
· 5 years’ experience biopharma or pharma in a complex, virtual, Commercial Supply Chain Environment.
 
Skills
·Strong organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
·Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional as well as internationally  with minimal supervision.
·Ability to prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast paced, dynamic environment with multiple projects.
·Subject-matter expertise in ERP systems, preferably  SAP.
·Ability to understand and escalate the impact of unique issues from an E2E and functional perspective including Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing, Finance, Operations to assess best options
·Business process thinker that drives for continuous improvement of business process to achieve product strategies.
·Demonstrated, deep understanding of end-to-end global supply chain processes.
·Excellent communications skills with the ability to work in a global, matrix organization.
·Strong analytical, organization, decision making, written and verbal communication and presentation skills to operational as executive levels. 
·Comfortable with ambiguity, able to distil key decisions from complex data and environment and effectively articulate issues such that they resonate with senior management. 
·Can accommodate required international travel – circa 4 times per year to the US.

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.