Associate Director - End to End Planning Capabilities

Role Overview

The Associate Director, End‑to‑End Planning Capabilities is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving Bio Marin’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 Bio Marin’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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 area audit‑ready, compliant, and fit for a regulated biopharmaceutical environment.

• Act as a trusted integrator…