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Senior Director, Head of External Operations
 BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | |
life insurance, paid time off
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 United States, California, San Rafael | |
| 770 Lindaro St (Show on map) | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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Senior Director, Head of External Operations, Global External Operations (GEO)
This is a remote role, with travel within US, Japan and Europe at 25%.
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.
The role of Snr. Director, Head of External Operations, GEO will provide leadership for all manufacturing and packaging operations which take place in Contract Manufacturing locations globally to support BioMarin's clinical pipeline and commercial product portfolio. The core focus of the role is to ensure timely delivery of quality commercial and clinical product to support patient supply from our CMO network. Our CMO operations span multiple sites (approx. 20) and multiple technology platforms namely, Biologic Drug Substance, Synthetic Drug Substance, Oral Solid Dose, Sterile Drug Product, Combination Products, and Packaging.
The successful candidate will provide leadership to a global team of Managers with responsibility for operational management and oversight of the CMOs and other key suppliers within the BioMarin network. The position reports directly to the Vice President of Global External Operations.
The successful candidate will be tasked with leading the implementation, standardisation, and enhancement of a number of global Process Teams consisting of cross functional representation with members from QA, Supply Chain, MSAT, Operations, and other key functions. These cross functional teams have accountability to deliver approved commercial product from our global network of Clinical and Commercial CMOs to support over $2bn of revenue across 8 commercial products with significant planned future growth. Additionally, this role will have accountability for the delivery of released product to support our exciting clinical pipeline (e.g., Make-Assess-Release and Ready - Run - Release processes).
The Snr. Director, Head of External Operations will be a member of the GEO Leadership Team (GEO Leadership Team) where they will have shared accountability for managing the global external supply business, setting our vision and developing and delivering our strategic roadmap. This role will also be a key member of other governance bodies within TOPS and across BioMarin.
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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. The salary range for this position is: $206,200 to $285,000. BioMarin considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.For additional benefits information, visit: https://careers.biomarin.com/benefits.
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