The Director, Global Supplier Quality Management is a senior leadership role with enterprise-wide authority and accountability for the governance, effectiveness, and continuous advancement of BioMarin's global Supplier Quality Management framework across the external supply network for GMP/GDP materials. This role serves as the quality authority for suppliers and materials, ensuring sustained regulatory compliance, product quality, and patient safety while enabling uninterrupted and scalable business operations.
The Director defines and drives the global Supplier Quality vision and strategy and exercises decision-making authority across the full supplier lifecycle, in close partnership with Procurement and Technical Operations. This includes supplier qualification, raw material specification oversight, quality agreements, supplier changes, deviations, performance management, auditing, and inspection readiness. The role interfaces at the enterprise level with senior leaders across Quality, Technical Operations, Manufacturing, Legal and Procurement to prevent quality risk, improve supplier capability, and embed a consistent, risk-based approach across the global network. As a key change leader within Quality, the Director is also accountable for advancing digital and data-enabled Supplier Quality capabilities, including the adoption of automation, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Through these capabilities, the role ensures proactive risk identification, data-driven decision-making, and scalable oversight aligned with BioMarin's long-term business and quality strategy. This position requires deep GxP expertise, strong executive presence, and the ability to operate with authority and influence in a complex, global, matrixed organization.
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. 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.