Process Lead, Product Costing (Record to Report)

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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.

Background

BioMarin has experienced substantial growth organically since its inception, primarily over the last decade. While this steady growth in both cost structure and staff was essential to BioMarin's emergence as a leading, fully integrated global biopharma 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;

BioMarin leadership desires to optimize the efficiency of its operations for the future through its next phase of growth.

BioMarin launched its "Enterprise Resource Planning" (ERP) enterprise-wide operational initiative in Q1 2022. The implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is critical for supporting that tomorrow for our patients and our people.

An effective ERP will support bridging our planning, transactional processes, and information to meet the needs of a maturing and growing organization.

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 workstreams 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 Process Lead for Product Costing is responsible for the development and integration of the workstream into the overall program.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and manages the product costing workstream, collaborating closely with RTR colleagues and System Integrator.
• Leads development of business process design, system design, and implementation activities.
• Manages scope of the workstream through the remaining implementation phases.
• Understands functions and features of ERP modules, in particular integration of manufacturing data and processes with product costing.
• Manages and confirms appropriate integration with other process workstreams, ensuring correct accounting treatment for all transactional data related to PTP, STP, OTC and ITD.
• Responsible for developing and managing cutover timeline and activities impacting product costing and other integrated processes.

Ensure business users understand and are aligned on cutover activities and impacts.

Responsible for preparing and validating product costing related data, including data owned by RTR and manufacturing workstreams.

Develop understanding of business rules for all data impacting product costing.

• Responsible for development of test scripts, testing execution and defect resolution for product costing.
• Develop understanding of BioMarin business, products, supply chain and manufacturing capabilities to ensure appropriate design and treatment of manufacturing costs and development of standard costs.
• Identifies and works to prepare business case for identified gaps.
• Key participant in design workshops related to product costing, including working cross functionally to ensure that the end-to-end business processes are integrated across all work streams.
• Be a change champion for the project functionally and cross functionally. Ensure business users requirements are incorporated into design and testing.
• 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.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing accounting and standard costing in a multi-national environment, using S / 4 Hana.
• Prior experience in SAP implementation highly desirable.
• Knowledge and experience of all elements of the product costing business process cycle. Thorough understanding of manufacturing data and processes impacting product costing.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into system and process design.

Critical Attributes

The Process Lead is 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.
• Effective change leader to prepare BioMarin to adopt industry best practices.
• Effective communication, persuasion and influencing skills at all levels.
• A bias for action and a "can do" attitude.
• Solutions oriented.
• Work experience in a similar transformational effort such as an ERP S4 / HANA program or similar enterprise / local deployment in the bio-pharma context.

Key Working Relationships

• Partnering across supplier / customer process leads to ensure enterprise integrated solution.
• Partner with Price Water-House Coopers (PwC) workstream lead on business solution.
• Partner with sponsor(s) on allocation of resources and alignment on business solution and implementation strategy.
• Partner with Information Management (IM) workstream leads to ensure business and technology solution achieve business objectives.
• Partner with PMO lead manage critical milestones and address implementation risks.
• Partner with OCM lead to assess and align on change management plan to prepare the business for business transformation realization.
• Partner with ERP program lead on overall strategy, risk management and implementation of integrated business solution.

Skills / Competencies

• Strong understanding of other financial and supply chain operational process flows (i.e., order to cash, source to pay, plan to produce etc.)
• Ability to develop strong partnership with the business community. Self-motivated and a problem solver who can assess and develop strategies for achieving the needs of the user community.
• Drives operational efficiency and identifies, documents, and monitors key business processes within the scope of their business process to achieve successful business results.

Analyzes, maps and documents process and develops a framework for process standardization and improvement.

• Effective verbal, written and interpersonal skills. Ability to speak to technical-level staff and develop written reporting and presentational content with level-appropriate messaging up to and including the senior executive level.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a matrix environment, particularly in cross-functional teams across multiple lines of business, over whom there may be no direct authority.
• Demonstrated change leader implementing strategies to move the organization through the change management curve and align to industry best practices process standards.
• Excellent project management skills, with demonstrated track record of applying program management principles, practices, and techniques with a strong results orientation.

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.

In the U.S., the salary range for this position is $ 180,000 to $ 270,000 per year, which factors in various geographic regions.

The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

A discretionary bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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