Associate Director, Demand Planning

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 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.

The Associate Director, Demand Planning is a critical role within the BioMarin Supply Chain function that will require close engagement and interaction with the Commercial, Financial Planning and Analytics (FP&A), Global Supply Chain, and Operations.The Associate Director, Demand Planning is responsible for the management, execution and continuous improvement of overall demand planning process, including the approval of a realistic and aligned demand plan that correlates to financial plan. This role is to utilize analytical, marketing, and sales data to estimate future product demands and generate 36-month demand plan. The role will monitor and report essential changes to sales forecasts, business strategies, and budgets. This role collaborates with finance, regional/country and commercial forecasting teams and supports company management with risk assessment and activities, proposing and implementing solutions that accurately improve demand forecasts. Additionally, this role also has direct oversight in assigned country/ market level responsibilities to ensure country/ market business needs and escalations are proactively tended to. This is done via monthly demand meetings and escalation in Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) meeting. This role is a key member with Commercial and Finance teams of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process which ensures the demand plan translates to a supply plan in turn informing make-buy decisions and activities.Competencies:

• Broad knowledge and relationships across distinct parts of the organization: commercial, sales, marketing, product development, finance, and manufacturing.
• Deep knowledge of planning processes: demand planning, supply planning, new product introduction, material planning and S&OP/ IBP process.
• Demand planning process across different business units, products, and geographies within the organization.
• Business process knowledge/business acumen.
• Understanding of analytics with experience collecting, organizing and disseminating information accurately.
• Understanding of AI-based demand planning.
• Understanding of the basic automation and AI/ML functionality in the existing demand forecasting tools
• Knowledge of finance, supply, sales, marketing and R&D functions.

Skills:

• Proficiency using technology tools that enable demand planning and reporting.
• Understanding of technology tools that enable demand planning and reporting.
• Ability to use technology tools that facilitate collaboration with external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into high-level analysis and demand planning.
• Ability to predict future trends based on past and current data. 
• Strong mathematical/statistical knowledge and experience with common data software.
• Evaluate scenarios with end-to-end supply chain impact in mind.
• Ability to refine and train algorithms to aid analysis and scenario planning.
• Ability to create original concepts and theories in, e.g., Excel, Google Sheets, SQL and Looker.
• Ability to identify modifications to business practices to take full advantage of technology innovation.

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