Sr Manager, Portfolio and Program Management

Who We Are

Bio Marin 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 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, 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

Bio Marin’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 Bio Marin’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.

Novato Technical Services (NTS), part of Drug Substance Technologies (DST) in the Technical Development and Services (TDS) group is the technical partner for late-stage clinical and commercial operations and actively supports manufacturing processes throughout the product lifecycle. The NTS team owns the technical process for commercial products manufactured onsite and is accountable for its performance. We support production through robust process understanding, implementation of process improvement, constant monitoring of process performance, and process investigation and impact assessment when necessary.

We ensure consistent high-quality supply of products to our patients and our mission is to lead the way in process science through innovation and excellence while maintaining the highest standards of quality and compliance. We are an inclusive, high-performing, highly motivated, and collaborative group looking for an innovative and passionate individual with strong business acumen and technical proficiency to become an integral part of our team.

The Senior Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for driving portfolio governance, strategic alignment and execution excellence across a cross-functional organization. This role combines portfolio governance and people leadership, serving as a key partner to senior leaders. The role acts as a central point of co-ordination across functions, ensuring consistency in project management standards, transparent reporting, and continuous improvement of portfolio process.

• Support and execute end-to-end portfolio governance frameworks, including intake, prioritization, stage-gate process and decision forums.
• Lead and develop a team of portfolio, program and/or project management professionals
• Partner with leadership to ensure portfolio alignment with strategic objectives, funding, capacity, including risk management.
• Prepare materials and recommendations for portfolio review boards and steering committees.
• Lead components of annual and long-range portfolio planning.
• Facilitate scenarios and capacity analysis to support leadership decisions.
• Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, KPIs, and executive level reports.
• Develop and enhance PMO processes, tools, and best practices, and implement global business processes for TDS, e.g. Technical Agenda and Consensus Yield.
• Developing detailed project plans and timelines for large scope cross-functional projects, driving execution and managing communication strategies, as needed
• Partner with data science team to develop a digital…