Sr. Manager, Product Launch
Description
Summary Description
BioMarin is seeking an exceptional Senior Manager of Product Launch to lead high-impact, end-to-end launches of innovative therapies across global markets. This high-profile, fast-paced role demands a strategic, patient-focused leader who excels at navigating regulatory complexity, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering on-time, compliant market availability.
You will shape integrated launch strategies, mitigate critical risks, and champion launch excellence to accelerate patient access to life-changing treatments. Ideal for a proven biotech/pharma executive with deep launch expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence at senior levels in a dynamic, regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
Launch Strategy, Planning & Governance
- Develop and oversee comprehensive, integrated launch plans—including timelines, dependencies, risks, resources, and market-specific requirements—while aligning technical, regulatory, supply chain, and commercial objectives.
- Partner with Product Strategy leaders to craft cohesive development-to-commercial strategies that incorporate competitive intelligence, market insights, and patient-centric value propositions.
- Establish standardized processes, tools, dashboards, and KPIs to drive global launch excellence and continuous improvement.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Team Management
- Form and lead high-performing cross-functional launch teams (commercial, regulatory, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and beyond) to meet ambitious timelines.
- Build strategic partnerships and influence senior stakeholders across functions without direct authority, fostering accountability, clarity, and collaborative decision-making.
Regulatory, Quality & Compliance Readiness
- Ensure full adherence to global regulatory standards (e.g. FDA, EMA, ICH, cGMP) while proactively anticipating and resolving CMC, labeling, and access challenges to safeguard compliance and market entry.
Operational Execution & Market Delivery
- Translate strategic commitments into executable plans, monitor readiness KPIs, and lead rapid resolution of issues across manufacturing, quality, logistics, data, and packaging domains.
Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
- Identify, track, and mitigate multi-domain risks with a resilient, crisis-management mindset focused on forward momentum and contingency planning.
- Champion process simplification, digital tools, data automation, lean methodologies (DMAIC), and innovative approaches to embed launch excellence and adaptability.
This role carries significant accountability for on-time, compliant product availability, directly impacting patient outcomes and BioMarin's commercial success.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or related field.
- PMP certification or equivalent.
- Preferred: MBA or Master's in Supply Chain, Business, or Engineering.
Experience
- 7+ years leading product launches into global biotech/pharma markets, with proven success in New Product Introduction and market timing processes.
- In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory environments, GMP, and ICH guidelines.
- Expertise in Lean-DMAIC (Green Belt or higher preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, balance priorities, lead change, and drive cross-functional improvements in regulated settings.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications, PowerBI, SAP, or similar technologies.
Key Attributes & Competencies
The successful candidate embodies BioMarin's values and thrives in a high-stakes, evolving landscape:
- Decision Making & Strategic Acumen — Makes independent, complex decisions with material impact; distills critical insights from ambiguous challenges; gathers diverse inputs for sound conclusions; applies financial/business acumen and competitive/market intelligence to optimize positioning, access, and ROI.
- Influencing & Collaboration — Navigates inter-departmental dependencies; shares information transparently to align goals; listens actively, incorporates feedback, and partners across teams; builds relationships with KOLs, payers, and external stakeholders to drive advocacy and adoption.
- Agility & Resilience — Develops options to overcome setbacks; anticipates problems with deep process knowledge; seeks advice swiftly; maintains positive, solution-focused momentum in crises and fast-paced change.
- Leadership & Patient-Centric Orientation — Guides team development from foundational to advanced tasks; resolves conflicts to sustain teamwork; aligns launches with long-term portfolio vision and unmet patient needs, translating scientific complexity into compelling value.
- Innovation & Adaptability — Champions continuous learning and innovative practices (e.g., digital tools, agile adaptations in regulated settings) while operating autonomously across global regions and time zones with exceptional communication and influencing skills.
Work Style:
Hybrid - expected onsite in San Rafael at least two days/week
If you are a strategic leader passionate about biotech innovation and patient impact, we invite you to bring your expertise to BioMarin and help shape the future of rare disease therapies. BioMarin is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and inclusion.
Approximately 15% travel
CONTACTS
TOPS and PSCT product teams, GSC Planning, Site SC and Operations, Regulatory (CMC & Labeling), Commercial Ops., Master Data team, Logistics, Artwork / Packaging Operations
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.
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.
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.