Program Manager, Enterprise Strategy

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Program Manager, Enterprise Strategy plays a role in advancing Bristol Myers Squibb's enterprise-wide strategic initiatives. Working closely with senior strategy leaders, cross-functional teams, and external stakeholders, this individual contributes to the planning, execution, and monitoring of high-priority strategic projects. The role is well-suited for an analytically driven professional with a consulting mindset, strong organizational capabilities, and a passion for driving meaningful impact across a complex, global organization.

Requirements

• Minimum education of a bachelor's degree is required.
• Minimum of four (4) years of relevant professional experience in project coordination or related field, or a minimum of two (2) years of professional experience in management consulting or a corporate strategy is required.
• Experience working with senior leadership and preparing executive-level materials.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to tailor messaging to various audiences.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams) and project management tools. (e.g., Smartsheet, Asana, or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of data visualization tools. (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)

Nice To Haves

• Fields such as Business Administration, Life Sciences, Public Health, Economics, or related disciplines is preferred.
• Familiarity with the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end coordination of enterprise strategy projects, including workplan development, milestone tracking, risk management, and status reporting.
• Maintain project management tools, dashboards, and trackers to ensure on-time delivery of key deliverables.
• Facilitate project agenda preparation, note-taking, and action item follow-up.
• Proactively identify and escalate project risks, dependencies, or blockers to senior stakeholders.
• Provide team-wide, cross-forum support, including data compilation, project tracking, stakeholder interface support and staff meeting coordination.
• Share key project updates and actions while providing insights and recommendations to enable project discussions.
• Conduct secondary research and competitive landscape analyses to support strategic decision-making.
• Synthesize data from multiple internal and external sources into concise, insight-driven summaries and reports.
• Assist in benchmarking organizational practices against industry peers and best-in-class standards.
• Support the development of business cases, opportunity assessments, and strategic frameworks.
• Prepare high-quality PowerPoint presentations, briefing documents, and executive-ready materials for leadership reviews and steering committees.
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholder meetings, workshops, and working sessions, ensuring alignment and follow-through.
• Serve as a reliable point of contact between strategy team leads and project stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Draft clear, professional communications (emails, memos, summaries) on behalf of senior leaders.
• Identify opportunities to streamline team workflows, project templates, and knowledge management practices.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal playbooks, frameworks, and process documentation.
• Support organizational change management activities tied to strategic initiatives.
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly business reviews, strategy offsites, and planning cycles.
• Collaborate with teams across Finance, Commercial, R&D, Operations, and Corporate Functions to coordinate integrated strategy workstreams.
• Build productive working relationships with subject matter experts and functional leads across BMS.
• Oversee the selection, implementation, and governance of CI platforms, databases, and intelligence-sharing tools to ensure efficient and compliant knowledge management across the enterprise.
• Establish standardized methodologies, frameworks, and processes for intelligence collection, synthesis, and dissemination.
• Ensure all primary research is conducted in full compliance with BMS CI ethical standards, PhRMA guidelines, and IP protection policies — partnering closely with the CI Operations Director to enforce governance standards across all intelligence-gathering activities.
• Ensure all competitive intelligence activities strictly adhere to legal, ethical, and compliance standards, including BMS's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

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