Sr. Project Manager, Global External Manufacturing
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
August 31, 2026
Remote friendly (San Rafael, CA)
United States
$127,200 - $174,900 USD yearly
Operations
Role Purpose
- Drive disciplined, end-to-end project delivery across the GEO site portfolio and the global external manufacturing network, ensuring projects are planned, governed, and executed against approved scope, cost, and schedule in a highly regulated environment.
Key Accountabilities
Project & Portfolio Management
- Manage projects through full lifecycle: intake/approval → execution → handover → benefits realization.
- Establish/maintain charters, RAID logs, decision logs, and governance artifacts for audit-ready oversight.
- Ensure scope/priorities/objectives align with strategic, operational, compliance, and capacity requirements across GEO.
- Prepare decision-focused project reviews (progress, risks, issues, required decisions).
- Lead/support continuous improvement by identifying recurring execution pain points and improving processes/governance/digital ways of working.
Project Planning & Schedule Ownership
- Independently build/maintain/optimize integrated logic-driven schedules (e.g., MS Project).
- Translate technical/quality/validation/manufacturing inputs into execution-ready timelines with SMEs.
- Analyze schedule health to identify slippage drivers and mitigation strategies; surface risks/tradeoffs/decision points.
External Manufacturing (CMO) Project Delivery
- Interface with CMOs to align deliverables, timelines, resources, and approvals.
- Integrate CMO activities into end-to-end schedules; manage external dependencies.
- Support technical transfer, validation, quality, engineering, and supply continuity.
- Ensure documentation/change control/GMP execution are inspection-ready.
Integration & Decision Support / Resource, Risk & Dependency Management / Stakeholders & Digital
- Consolidate schedule/risk/capacity data; explain “what/why” with root causes and implications.
- Maintain decision logs; manage resources/capacity conflicts and interdependencies; enforce risk management and change control.
- Drive cross-functional alignment; deliver decision-focused updates to senior leaders; apply PMO standards/dashboards/analytics for governance effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Science, Business, or Information Systems (or equivalent).
- PMP certification preferred.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred.
- 5+ years in project management or business process improvement in a GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
- Proven ability to build/manage complex, cross-functional project schedules with external dependencies.
- Experience supporting technical transfers, validations, engineering changes, or portfolio projects.
- External/contract manufacturing experience is an advantage.
Skills/Competencies
- Strong communication across technical teams and executives; clarity and alignment.
- Organizational awareness in matrix environments; influence without direct authority.
- Conflict management; facilitation of difficult conversations.
- Understanding of biopharma operations and compliance.
- Financial/business acumen and governance oversight.
- Advanced digital literacy (MS Project, Power BI, and/or AI-enabled tools).
Workstyle
- Hybrid; travel to external partners as required (10–20%).
- Drive disciplined, end-to-end project delivery across the GEO site portfolio and the global external manufacturing network, ensuring projects are planned, governed, and executed against approved scope, cost, and schedule in a highly regulated environment.
Key Accountabilities
Project & Portfolio Management
- Manage projects through full lifecycle: intake/approval → execution → handover → benefits realization.
- Establish/maintain charters, RAID logs, decision logs, and governance artifacts for audit-ready oversight.
- Ensure scope/priorities/objectives align with strategic, operational, compliance, and capacity requirements across GEO.
- Prepare decision-focused project reviews (progress, risks, issues, required decisions).
- Lead/support continuous improvement by identifying recurring execution pain points and improving processes/governance/digital ways of working.
Project Planning & Schedule Ownership
- Independently build/maintain/optimize integrated logic-driven schedules (e.g., MS Project).
- Translate technical/quality/validation/manufacturing inputs into execution-ready timelines with SMEs.
- Analyze schedule health to identify slippage drivers and mitigation strategies; surface risks/tradeoffs/decision points.
External Manufacturing (CMO) Project Delivery
- Interface with CMOs to align deliverables, timelines, resources, and approvals.
- Integrate CMO activities into end-to-end schedules; manage external dependencies.
- Support technical transfer, validation, quality, engineering, and supply continuity.
- Ensure documentation/change control/GMP execution are inspection-ready.
Integration & Decision Support / Resource, Risk & Dependency Management / Stakeholders & Digital
- Consolidate schedule/risk/capacity data; explain “what/why” with root causes and implications.
- Maintain decision logs; manage resources/capacity conflicts and interdependencies; enforce risk management and change control.
- Drive cross-functional alignment; deliver decision-focused updates to senior leaders; apply PMO standards/dashboards/analytics for governance effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Science, Business, or Information Systems (or equivalent).
- PMP certification preferred.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred.
- 5+ years in project management or business process improvement in a GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
- Proven ability to build/manage complex, cross-functional project schedules with external dependencies.
- Experience supporting technical transfers, validations, engineering changes, or portfolio projects.
- External/contract manufacturing experience is an advantage.
Skills/Competencies
- Strong communication across technical teams and executives; clarity and alignment.
- Organizational awareness in matrix environments; influence without direct authority.
- Conflict management; facilitation of difficult conversations.
- Understanding of biopharma operations and compliance.
- Financial/business acumen and governance oversight.
- Advanced digital literacy (MS Project, Power BI, and/or AI-enabled tools).
Workstyle
- Hybrid; travel to external partners as required (10–20%).