Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience with Ariba and SAP systems is essential., Strong understanding of the Source to Pay process, with prior leadership in functional areas preferred., Excellent communication and influencing skills across all organizational levels., A growth mindset and collaborative skills are critical for success in this role..

Key responsabilities:

Lead and manage the Source to Pay workstream in collaboration with functional leaders.

Develop and implement business process designs and ensure alignment with system designs for ERP go-live.

Build partnerships with global teams to drive operational and planning initiatives.

Report on issues, risks, and scope questions while preparing business cases for identified gaps.

Job description

Description

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.

Job Description: Global Process Owner, Source to Pay

BioMarin has experienced substantial growth organically since its inception, primarily over the last decade.  This steady growth in both cost structure and staff were essential to BioMarin’s emergence as a leading, fully integrated global biopharmaceutical company with approximately $2 billion in revenues from over 75 countries, a robust R&D pipeline, operating profits, and world-class technical capabilities through its 3,000 employees worldwide. As the company grows, BioMarin leadership desires to optimize the efficiency of its operations for the future through its next phase of growth.  

In 2022 BioMarin launched its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) enterprise-wide operational initiative transforming the way we work by implementing an ERP system solution, SAP S4 HANA.

In Q1, 2025 our first five legal entities went live in SAP, the remaining entities will go live in Q1, 2026.

Implementing a new ERP impacts the entire company – putting this system in place is equally complex and transformational.  The project team is built around the Global Process Workflows as outlined below: 

Record to Report

Order to Cash

Source to Pay

Plan to Produce/Inventory to Deliver

Forecast to Plan

Enterprise Asset Management

The Global Process Owner (GPO) for each workflow is accountable for the development and integration of the workstream into the overall program and the workstream specific Process Leads will report to them.  We are actively recruiting a Global Process Owner for Source to Pay.

Key responsibilities:

- Leads and manages the work in the Source to Pay workstream in close collaboration with the functional leaders of the STP organizations – Global Sourcing & Procurement, Legal, Accounts Payable.
- Leads the development of business process design, system design, and implementation of business processes, ensuring alignment with the original system design for first phase go live.
- Be a change champion for the project functionally and cross functionally.
- Help develop and implement processes for enabling the simplification and standardization of practices in line with the SAP first and fit to standard design philosophies.
- Build partnerships and collaborate with global, functional, and regional teams on operational, and planning initiatives. 
- Prepare and engage the key stakeholders on how ERP can enable future opportunities, including global-end-end process in a shared service environment.
- Ensure that as the Global Process Owner for STP that we remain true to the program guiding principles of fitting to standard SAP functionality and being the steward of the STP global business process. 
- Partner with the Procurement, legal and other leadership teams to drive continuous improvement opportunities post go live as we build out the COE for ERP i.e.
- Coordinates with development/configuration team for development related to workstream
- Manages scope of the workstream(s)
- Understands functions and features of ERP module(s)
- Manages and confirms the proper integration with other process workstreams
- Prepares key issues, provides options for fast decision making by global process owners and steering committee.
- Reports issues, risks, and scope questions.
- Identifies and works to prepare business case for identified gaps.
- Key participant in design work shop’s not only to align on their respective work stream but to work cross functionally to ensure that the end to end of the business process are integrated across all work streams.
- Leads governance across the STP workstream.
- Enhancements
- Data reporting & analytics
- Efficiency projects

Critical Attributes 

The Global Process Owner will be a role that requires a growth mindset and dynamic set of business and collaboration skills, including the following: 

- Great collaborator across all BioMarin, Systems Integrator and SAP personnel
- Experience with Ariba and SAP.
- Experience with the Source to Pay process, preferably by leading one or more functional areas in the past.
- Effective communication, persuasion and influencing skills at all levels 
- A bias for action and a “can do” attitude.
- Solutions oriented
- Other desirable attributes include work experience in a similar transformational. effort such as an ERP S4/HANA program or similar enterprise/local deployment in the bio-pharma context.

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.

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