Associate Director, Strategy and Operations, Trial Delivery Support

Bristol-Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

99d • $166,340 - $201,561 • Hybrid

About The Position

The primary focus of this strategic role is to drive alignment with corporate objectives through three crucial pillars: unifying the Trial Delivery Support (TDS) organization and streamlining ways of working, bringing a best-in-practice mindset to objectives execution in TDS, and establishing TDS alignment to support the Global Development Operations (GDO) vision of delivering medicines to patients faster. This position reports directly to the President of Trial Delivery Support and provides key support to the TDS leadership team.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of experience in strategic operations, program management, or Chief of Staff roles, with a proven ability to translate strategy into execution.
• Strong foundation in governance, communications, and cross-functional leadership across global teams.
• Skilled at balancing competing priorities, ensuring follow-through, and fostering organizational alignment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, adept at tailoring messaging for diverse audiences and leaders.
• Experienced in developing KPIs, dashboards, and process improvements to enhance decision-making and business impact.
• Recognized for collaborative leadership, discretion, and influencing without authority.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the TDS Leadership Team, driving the execution of priorities and alignment across functions.
• Provide strategic planning and analysis, including the development of roadmaps, key performance indicators, tracking of strategic objectives, and financial representation of budgets and headcount across various functions within Trial Delivery Support.
• Orchestrate leadership operations, including leadership team meetings, governance, communications, and organizational planning, ensuring clarity and accountability.
• Lead the coordination of forums, town halls, and engagement initiatives to strengthen culture and connectivity across TDS.
• Develop key communications, plans, and visual metrics to enable the leadership team to communicate with key stakeholders across Global Development Operations.
• Champion efficiency and consistency by standardizing processes, developing playbooks, and tracking KPIs and success factors.
• Drive leadership team meeting cadence, including agendas, minutes, follow-ups, and action tracking.
• Manage trackers for organizational charts, hiring/promotion/travel, functional roadmaps, and quarterly objectives.
• Lead the preparation of decision briefs, pre-reads, and reporting for leadership team governance.
• Oversee communication platforms (SharePoint, Viva Engage) and deliver forums, town halls, and coffee chats.
• Partner with the leadership team to define KPIs, track success factors, and measure strategic impact.
• Build and maintain standardized meetings, planning, and communications.

Benefits

• Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care.
• Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP).
• Financial well-being resources and a 401(K).
• Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support.
• Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year's holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility.
• Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave.
• Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources.
• Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree