As the PO&T Risk Management Lead, you will establish and lead integrated risk management processes crucial to identifying top-level risks across PO&T accountabilities. This role is pivotal in synthesizing, escalating, and communicating technology, quality, supplier, safety, environmental, product supply, compliance, and emerging risks to the PO&T leadership team. You will engage with both internal and external sites within Biogen’s manufacturing and supply network to apply standardized frameworks for risk impact assessments. The position involves collaborating with the PO&T leadership to approve mitigation plans for critical risks and regularly reporting on organizational preparedness. Your efforts will help advance the maturity of risk management business processes across all PO&T functions, serving as the primary contact for Enterprise Risk Management activities. By establishing PO&T risk management and business continuity frameworks, you contribute to the resilience and sustainability of Biogen’s operations.
What You’ll Do:
Develop and implement methodologies to identify and assess systemic risks across PO&T.
Lead comprehensive synthesis of functional and site risk assessments for PO&T leadership.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities.
Ensure progress on implementation of risk mitigation strategies and action plans.
Monitor the effectiveness of risk mitigation efforts and recommend adjustments.
Integrate risk management practices into manufacturing and supply chain planning.
Develop strategies for supply chain continuity and resilience.
Organize periodic business continuity simulations and lead crisis response efforts.
Prepare and present risk management reports to the PO&T leadership team.
Who You Are:
You are a strategic thinker with a keen ability to influence and enroll stakeholders across PO&T. Your strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities allow you to synthesize complex subjects into key points. You excel in fast-paced environments, balancing multiple projects efficiently while maintaining organizational clarity. As an exceptional team player, you thrive in cross-functional teams, demonstrating intellectual leadership in risk management approaches. Your communication skills are exemplary, enabling you to articulate recommendations and decision points effectively.
Required Skills:
Master's Degree in Science, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or similar.
Minimum 10+ years work experience with at least 2 years in risk management within Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry.
Strong leadership skills and ability to influence across the matrix.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Experience in reducing complex subjects to key points and efficient organizational skills.
Exceptional team player with experience in executive governance forums.
Preferred Skills:
Experience in leading risk efforts with direct impact on product supply and business continuity.
Familiarity with Enterprise Risk Management methodologies.
Ability to conduct post-crisis analysis and implement lessons learned
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
Skills Required
- Master's Degree in Science, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or similar
- Minimum 10+ years work experience in risk management within Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry
- Strong leadership skills and ability to influence across the matrix
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Exceptional team player with experience in executive governance forums
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
Biogen Insights
What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
