About this opportunity

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 <a></a>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, <a></a>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 <a></a>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.Sr. Project Manager, Global External ManufacturingHybrid - San Rafael, CA 2 Days On SiteRole PurposeThe Senior Project Manager drives 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.This role is accountable for independently building and maintaining integrated, logic driven project schedules, governing execution, and enabling timely, data driven decisions across new product introductions and continuous improvement initiatives. The Senior Project Manager serves as the critical link between portfolio planning and execution teams by translating complex technical and operational inputs into credible plans, clear tradeoffs, and actionable insights that support reliable delivery across GEO. Key AccountabilitiesProject & Portfolio Management<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Experience in project management of tech transfers, merger & aquisition-integrations required</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Manage assigned projects through the full lifecycle, from intake and approval through execution, handover, and <a></a>benefits realization.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Establish and maintain project charters, RAID logs, decision logs, and governance artifacts to ensure transparent, consistent, and audit‑ready oversight.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Ensure project scope, prioritization, and objectives remain aligned with strategic, operational, compliance, and capacity requirements across GEO.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Prepare and present concise, decision‑focused project reviews that synthesize progress, risks, issues, and required decisions for governance forums.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying recurring execution pain points, inefficiencies, and failure modes across projects, and partnering with stakeholders to improve processes, governance, and digital ways of working across GEO.</li></ul>Project Planning & Schedule Ownership<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Independently build, maintain, and optimize integrated project schedules using approved digital project management tools (e.g., MS Project or equivalent), including logic ties, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Translate technical, quality, validation, and manufacturing inputs into credible, execution‑ready timelines, in partnership with SMEs.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Continuously analyze schedule health to identify drivers of slippage, downstream impacts, compression opportunities, and mitigation strategies.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Use schedule data to proactively surface risks, tradeoffs, and decision points for functional leaders and governance forums.</li></ul>External Manufacturing (CMO) Project Delivery<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Act as the structured project interface with CMOs to align deliverables, timelines, resource needs, and approval pathways.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Integrate CMO activities into end‑to‑end project schedules, ensuring external dependencies are logically linked and actively managed.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Support technical transfer, validation, quality, engineering, and supply continuity initiatives with internal and external teams.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Ensure documentation, change control, and execution activities meet GMP expectations and are inspection‑ready execution activities meet GMP expectations and are inspection ready.</li></ul>Integration & Decision Support<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Consolidate schedule, risk, and capacity data across projects to proactively surface decision needs and escalation items.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Explain not only what is happening, but why—clearly articulating root causes, leading indicators, and implications for scope, schedule, and resources.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Maintain decision logs ensuring actions, owners, and due dates are captured, tracked, and closed.</li></ul>Resource, Risk & Dependency Management<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Balance project resource demands with operational constraints, surfacing capacity conflicts, and dependency risks for timely escalation.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Maintain integrated views of critical paths, interdependencies, and mitigation actions across internal teams and CMOs.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Enforce disciplined risk management and change control to protect approved scope, schedule, and compliance commitments.</li></ul>Stakeholder Engagement & Digital<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Drive cross-functional alignment by setting clear expectations, resolving execution issues, and escalating risks that threaten delivery.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Prepare and deliver concise, decision-focused project updates to the Head of Strategy and Business Operations and senior stakeholders.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Support the evolution and consistent application of governance forums, standards, and ways of working to enable reliable execution, effective escalation, and cross-functional alignment across GEO.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Enable digital and data enabled ways of working by applying PMO standards, dashboards, and analytics to improve visibility, predictability, and governance effectiveness.</li></ul>QualificationsEducation<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;"><a></a>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Science, Business, or Information Systems (or equivalent experience).</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Project Management Profession (PMP) certification preferred</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred</li></ul>Experience<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management or business process improvement within a GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Proven experience independently building and managing complex project schedules with cross‑functional and external dependencies</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Experience delivering or supporting technical transfers, validations, engineering changes, or portfolio projects.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Experience in external/contract manufacturing is an advantage.</li></ul>Skills & Competencies<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Exceptional communication skills with the ability to tailor messages for technical teams, operational leaders, and senior executives while maintaining clarity and alignment.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Demonstrates strong organizational awareness; understands decision-making dynamics and navigates matrixed environments effectively.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Influences and mobilizes cross-functional teams without direct authority through credibility, strong relationships, sound judgment, and consistent delivery.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Skilled in conflict management, facilitating difficult conversations and guiding teams toward constructive resolution.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;"><a></a>Understanding of biopharma operations and compliance requirements.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Financial/business acumen with disciplined governance oversight.</li><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Advanced digital literacy, demonstrated through hands‑on use of modern project management, analytics, and AI‑enabled tools to independently build and maintain integrated schedules, model dependencies and critical paths, analyze delivery risk, and translate data into decision‑ready insights (e.g., MS Project, Power BI, or equivalent).</li></ul>Workstyle & Travel<ul style="margin: 0.0pt;padding-left: 0.0pt;"><li style="font-family: sans-serif , arial , helvetica;font-size: 11.0pt;margin: 0.0pt 0.0pt 8.0pt 26.5pt;padding-left: 9.5pt;text-indent: 0.0pt;">Hybrid working model; travel to external partners as required (10–20%).</li></ul>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.

Job details

Seniority

Manager

Function

Manufacturing & CMC

Therapeutic area

Not listed

Location

San Rafael, United States

Employment type

Fulltime-Regular

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Manufacturing & CMC role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 452 comparable Manager Manufacturing & CMC roles across 73 biopharma companies.

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73Companies hiring similar roles

31Countries represented

Salary context

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Peer group range $0 – $235,000 (median $157,000)

Where these roles are based

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Netherlands16

Ireland16

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Japan10

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Seniority mix

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Manager247

Associate131

Associate Director74

Therapeutic area mix

3 of 452 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Rare Disease2

Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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