Sr. Project Manager, Global External Manufacturing (Biotech)

Location: Hybrid in Novato, California, with 2 days on site; travel to external partners required at 10–20%.

Company

BioMarin is a global biotechnology company developing medicines for patients with significant unmet medical needs, including genetic conditions.

What you will do

• Drive end-to-end project delivery across the GEO site portfolio and global external manufacturing network.
• Manage projects from intake and approval through execution, handover, and benefits realization.
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules with milestones, dependencies, logic ties, and critical paths.
• Coordinate technical transfers, validations, engineering changes, quality activities, and supply continuity initiatives with internal teams and contract manufacturing organizations.
• Prepare governance reviews and decision-focused updates covering progress, risks, issues, capacity, and required actions.
• Improve project governance, PMO standards, dashboards, analytics, and digital ways of working across GEO.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Business, or Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of project management or business process improvement experience in a GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to independently manage complex project schedules with cross-functional and external dependencies.
• Experience with technical transfers, validations, engineering changes, or portfolio projects; external or contract manufacturing experience is advantageous.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, organizational awareness, and business acumen.
• Advanced digital literacy, including project management, analytics, and AI-enabled tools such as MS Project or Power BI.

Nice to have

• PMP certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model based in Novato.
• Work in a highly regulated biotechnology manufacturing environment.
• Regular collaboration with internal teams, senior stakeholders, and external manufacturing partners.
• Travel to external partners at 10–20% as required.