Associate Director, Procurement, Clinical Development

Bristol Myers Squibb • Tampa, FL

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is seeking an accomplished procurement professional to advance category excellence within Specialized Services, across categories such as Regulatory and Patient Safety. This Associate Director will operationalize the Clinical Development Procurement (CDP) transformation agenda within these specialized areas—enhancing supplier partnerships, compliance rigor, and delivery performance through data-driven sourcing, analytics, and agile governance frameworks. This role will translate enterprise procurement frameworks into category strategies that enable operations across Regulatory and Patient Safety categories. The role requires strong business acumen and the ability to influence across functions, ensuring that enterprise procurement practices are effectively adopted and optimized through technology, analytics, and supplier partnerships. This position partners closely with the stakeholders within the Clinical Development functions as well as Category Managers across R&D Procurement to ensure cross-domain alignment on supplier innovation, digital transformation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Minimum education of a B.S./B.A. is required; M.S./M.B.A. is preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, or related industry with at least five ( 5) years of experience in a strategic procurement, category management or a comparable function is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong knowledge of category management and advanced strategic sourcing methodologies.
• Experience supporting cost reduction, value improvement programs or productivity initiatives.
• Exposure to global or cross-functional teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for procurement activities—including identification, assessments evaluation of suppliers with demonstrated service excellence in assigned categories.
• As applicable review, drafting, negotiation, and redlining supplier proposals—across novel or technically complex categories with limited legal supervision.
• Lead sourcing events to deliver integrated sourcing strategies and ensure successful program execution.
• Implement data-driven category strategies that deliver measurable value, productivity gains and service excellence.
• Serve as an accountable point of contact for internal Clinical Development stakeholders, external industry partners, and strategic suppliers, ensuring alignment between business needs and category strategies.
• Prepare and present strategic recommendations, insights and progress updates to senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
• Partner with SRM teams to support supplier segmentation and formalize Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programs for key strategic partners.
• Drive value-creation targets with business stakeholders and ensure regular performance reviews with measurable outcomes across respective categories.
• Ensure that contractual arrangements embed KPI-driven accountability and compliance obligations.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate supplier and supply-chain risks, ensuring resilience and continual focus on quality deliverables.
• Deliver cost-reduction, value-enhancement, and productivity initiatives across assigned R&D categories.
• Support, monitor, and forecast budgets, ensuring adherence to financial targets and alignment with enterprise investment priorities.
• Lead negotiations and strategic deal structuring to secure optimal commercial terms, value delivery, and risk balance across supplier portfolios.
• As relates to the categories in scope, support governance structures that drive disciplined decision-making, transparency, and compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
• Monitor adherence to contractual, financial, and ethical requirements, partnering closely with Legal, Privacy, and Compliance.
• Provide regular reporting and performance insights into leadership, highlighting progress, risks, and mitigation actions.
• As relevant to the categories in scope, build and maintain strong partnerships with R&D, Clinical Development, Finance, Legal, and other functional leaders to ensure cohesive strategy execution.
• Support adoption of advanced procurement practices, automation, and emerging digital technologies.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and market evolution to ensure BMS maintains a leadership position in R&D procurement excellence.
• Foster external partnerships with suppliers and industry consortia to benchmark best practices and identify collaboration opportunities.
• Provide informal coaching or mentoring to junior procurement team members as needed.

Benefits

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
• Work-life benefits include: Paid Time Off US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees) Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays
• Based on eligibility, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
• All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level