Director, Agile People Solutions Partner

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

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About The Position

The Agile People Solutions Partner will join a talented team to support the highest value priorities and critical projects within BMS and the People Function. These priorities and projects may include, but are not limited to organizational design & execution, talent management, workforce planning, employee experience, process/system improvements, change management and advancing the people strategy. This individual may take on multiple projects from design to execution and provide business client support within a functional area, as needed. Because the work of the Agile People Solutions team supports priorities across the full People Operating Model (HR Business Partner, Center of Expertise and Operations), this role can be a springboard to multiple career paths within the People Function. Operates at an enterprise level, providing strategic direction and oversight for people solutions across the organization. This role leads the development and execution of the most complex and critical projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Trusted advisor to executive leadership—often times to CEO-1—driving transformation and enabling organizational agility, and bringing forward novel, strategic solutions to address business challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 8+ years of relevant People/HR experience or relevant business/strategic consulting
• Self-motivated and agile individual with a proactive mindset, consistently taking initiative and demonstrating strong accountability to drive projects forward and achieve results.
• Strategy & Business Acumen: Understand business context, anticipate trends, and apply systems thinking and to diagnose problems and enable solutions
• Data/People Analytics: Experience in the use of metrics and analytics in a way that drives business performance. Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools, such as Excel and Tableau.
• Business Partnering: Organizationally savvy and can leverage consulting skills to effectively influence the business
• Quick Learner: Prior success working independently in fast-paced, adaptable, and flexible situations while driving strategic initiatives, delivering results, and resolving issues.
• Team Player: Strong experience building relationships, leading strategic initiatives, and collaborating across diverse business backgrounds and cultures. Highly self-motivated and able to work independently and in a team environment.
• Effective Communicator: Demonstrates excellent communication, storytelling, and interpersonal skills with various internal and external stakeholders to engage and influence at all levels.
• Critical Thinker: Effective critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills while continuously seeking opportunities for process improvement, challenging the status quo, and thinking outside the box.
• Action-oriented: Pursues tasks with a sense of urgency. Shows accountability by taking ownership of and completing them with the highest quality on time.
• Program Management: Agile and resourceful individual with a track record of delivering results through speed, innovation, and simplification of complex processes. Skilled in leveraging available resources to drive tasks and projects forward while effectively managing multiple projects and prioritizing tasks.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects driving the people strategy, workforce planning, organizational design, talent management, employee experience process/system improvements and change management.
• Collaborate across the People operating model for effective deployment of People strategies and activities.
• Adapt swiftly to changing business needs by being deployed to critical priorities and projects as required, demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including People colleagues, business leaders, employees, and external partners.
• Utilize People analytics and insights to inform decision-making, measure the impact of interventions, and continuously improve People processes and practices.
• Anticipate challenges and opportunities by proactively identifying potential issues, risks, and trends, and developing proactive solutions and strategies to address them before they escalate.
• Take a leadership role in creating a respectful & inclusive work environment while role-modeling the BMS Values and fostering geographical and cultural diversity.
• Drive outcomes through a culture of continuous improvement within the People function and across the organization, encouraging feedback, innovation, and learning from successes and failures to enhance processes, policies, and practices.

Benefits

• Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.
• 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: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees