Associate Director - End to End Planning Capabilities
Description
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
The Associate Director, End‑to‑End Planning capabilities is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving BioMarin’s end‑to‑end supply chain planning framework across demand, supply, inventory, production, and network planning. The role ensures the planning framework enables alignment between commercial demand, manufacturing capacity (Drug Substance, Drug Product, Finished Goods), inventory strategy, and financial commitments, supporting consistent, high‑quality decision‑making across the enterprise.
Operating as an enterprise‑level individual contributor, this role establishes clear decision rights, standardized planning routines, and disciplined governance mechanisms across functions, regions, and manufacturing sites. Partnering closely with Commercial, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, IT, and external partners, the Associate Director strengthens the effectiveness of BioMarin’s multi‑site global manufacturing network and supports ERP and advanced planning system transformation, enabling continued maturation toward an integrated S&OP / IBP operating model.
End‑to‑End Supply Chain Planning Process capabilities
- Act as the owner of the end‑to‑end planning framework across:
Demand Planning
Supply & Production Planning (Drug Substance, Drug Product, Finished Goods)
Inventory Planning and Optimization
Network Design, Capacity, and Constraint Management
Define and institutionalize global process standards, including end
‑to‑end process flows, operating models, governance forums, and documentation (SIPOC, RACI, SOPs, playbooks).
- Establish and enforce decision rights, escalation pathways, and accountability models within the planning and S&OP framework, ensuring timely, data‑driven decisions at the appropriate organizational level.
- Ensure tight alignment across planning horizons (operational, tactical, and strategic), enabling coherent execution while preserving long‑range network and capacity intent.
S&OP Process Design and Governance
- Design, evolve, and govern the monthly global S&OP cycle, ensuring it operates as a true decision‑making forum rather than a reporting exercise.
- Ensure systematic reconciliation of demand, supply, inventory, and financial plans, with transparent articulation of gaps, risks, and trade‑offs.
- Lead the scenario planning and option evaluation process, translating complex planning outcomes into executive‑ready decision packages with clear recommendations, implications, and risks.
- Drive global standardization of planning calendars, assumptions, templates, and metrics, while allowing controlled flexibility for regional and product‑specific nuances.
Performance Management, Insights, and Continuous Improvement
- Design and own a global planning performance management framework, including consistent definitions, targets, and governance for KPIs such as:
- Forecast accuracy and bias
- Customer service level / OTIF
- Schedule adherence and plan stability
- Inventory health (Months Forward Coverage, safety stock attainment)
- Expiry exposure and obsolescence risk
- Lead structured root‑cause analysis and corrective‑action governance, ensuring systemic issues are addressed rather than managed through manual workarounds.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and data‑driven methodologies to improve planning reliability, responsiveness, and efficiency.
Systems Enablement and Data Governance
- Serve as the business process owner for planning capabilities within ERP and advanced planning platforms (e.g., SAP ERP, SAP IBP, OMP or equivalent).
- Translate business strategy and planning requirements into clear system design principles, configuration guidance, and prioritization inputs for IT and digital teams.
- Partner closely with IT throughout system implementations, upgrades, and enhancements, ensuring process integrity is preserved as digital capabilities evolve.
- Establish and govern enterprise master data standards (BOMs, routings, yields, lead times, planning parameters), ensuring data quality supports credible planning outputs.
- Ensure planning processes and data are audit‑ready, compliant, and fit for a regulated biopharmaceutical environment.
Cross‑Functional and Network Collaboration
- Act as a trusted integrator and arbitrator across:
- Internal manufacturing sites (US and EU)
- External CMOs and CDMOs
- Commercial and regional demand organizations
- Finance, Quality, and Regulatory partners
- Facilitate and guide trade‑off decisions that balance service commitments, cost efficiency, supply risk, and regulatory compliance.
- Provide planning leadership and governance support for new product launches, lifecycle changes, and supply risk mitigation initiatives, ensuring planning processes scale with portfolio complexity.
Transformation and Change Leadership
- Define and execute a multi‑year roadmap for planning process maturity, aligned with BioMarin’s Supply Chain Excellence strategy and digital transformation agenda.
- Lead the process and people dimension of change during ERP and planning tool transformations, ensuring new capabilities translate into new ways of working.
- Develop global training materials, role‑based enablement, and adoption strategies to ensure consistent understanding and execution of planning processes.
- Embed standardized best practices across the global network, reducing reliance on heroics, spreadsheets, and localized workarounds.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field; MBA or master’s preferred.
- 6-10 years of digital experience with substantial responsibility for digital programs spanning planning, manufacturing, logistics, or operations.
- Experience with planning and execution platforms (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, etc.) and visibility/control-tower technologies.
- Knowledge of IoT/telemetry, cloud integrations, APIs, data platforms, and analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, Python/R).
- Relevant certifications (APICS/CSCP, PMP, Six Sigma) desirable
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.
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.