Director, Head of Performance Management, Advanced Analytics and Reporting

About the role

The Director, Head of Performance Management, Advanced Analytics and Reporting leads the development of a business-driven, centralized data and analytics capability that serves as the backbone for performance management, reporting, and advanced analytics across the commercial organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead a centralized Performance Management, Advanced Analytics and Reporting Hub acting as the backbone for analytics globally and across BUs for the Commercial organization.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of business partners and technical experts, fostering an agile, collaborative, and high-performance culture.
• Transform the analytics and reporting capabilities toward a self-service, business-facing model, leveraging modern data platforms and AI-enabled tools to enhance user autonomy and scalability.
• Drive adoption of self-service analytics and AI-enabled insights generation, enabling business users to customize reporting and conduct advanced analyses with minimal dependency on centralized teams.
• Act as a proactive and anticipatory thought partner to senior stakeholders, identifying opportunities, surfacing insights, and shaping decisions ahead of formal business requests.
• Translate current and future business priorities (growth, launches, market expansion) into a scalable analytics and data ecosystem roadmap.
• Define and operationalize a single source of truth across KPIs, dashboards, and reporting globally.
• Develop a business-driven analytics product portfolio (datasets, dashboards, models) aligned to key decision points.
• Lead a forward-looking AI and advanced analytics strategy, embedding predictive insights into commercial workflows.
• Own the analytics data layer including KPI logic, curated datasets, and reporting models.
• Establish and enforce data governance, quality, and validation frameworks to ensure consistency and trust in data.
• Act as a strategic partner to BUs and regional leadership, translating data into actionable insights and business impact.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with IT (CFIT), Digital, and FP&A to deliver integrated, end-to-end reporting (execution → performance → outcomes).

Requirements

• Education: Degree in Business, Engineering, Data Science, or related field. MBA (strongly preferred).
• Experience: 10–15+ years in data, analytics, or strategy roles, ideally within pharma, healthcare, or complex global organizations. Proven experience leading data & analytics functions, hubs, or COEs. Experience managing people with track record of an excellent people manager. Proven experience leading analytics transformation initiatives, shifting from centralized/reporting-heavy models to scalable, self-service, and AI-enabled ecosystems. Demonstrated ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution, with a track record of personally driving high-impact analyses and deliverables. Highly structured and proactive leader with strong analytical problem-solving skills and business acumen, capable of anticipating needs and influencing senior stakeholders. Track record of being identified as a high-potential leader, with demonstrated capacity to grow into broader enterprise leadership roles within BioMarin.

Qualifications

• Exposure to advanced analytics and AI use cases (predictive modeling, segmentation, automation).
• Experience in top-tier strategy consulting firms (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Strategy&, etc.) strongly preferred.

Skills

• Strongly business-oriented, consultative leader with the ability to translate strategy into analytics solutions.
• Hands-on and execution-driven, with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving and delivery.
• Highly structured, proactive, and forward-looking, anticipating business needs and opportunities.
• Collaborative and influential across functions, with the ability to build credibility and alignment at senior levels.
• High-potential mindset with ambition and capability to grow into broader leadership roles within BioMarin.