Senior Manager, Project Manager, Franchise Strategy & Operations

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role will be a strategic and operational portfolio partner for the medical lead and team in identifying, planning, risk identification/mitigation and delivering on portfolio priorities and workstreams. Examples: Asset Indication Medical meetings, medical planning, budget management/planning, congress activities, Ad Board planning, and portfolio governance/decision making. The role will partner across matrix functions (Medical Evidence Generation, finance, development teams, corporate giving, advocacy, professional societies, business operations) to support One BMS, prioritization and decision making. The individual would lead with passion, innovation, speed and accountability.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical research, development, or commercialization.
• A solid understanding of drug development and commercialization.
• Project management foundation and relevant experience on matrix management, budget management, metrics and leadership communication
• Strong written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to interact directly and productively with team members and management and to manage and prioritize multiple competing priorities is also required.
• Ability to lead and engage in complex scientific discussions, develop and summarize clear follow-up/action plans and execute.
• Strong experience with building relationships, leading strategic initiatives and programs, and collaborating across divisions with people of diverse business backgrounds and cultures.
• Highly organized and motivated individual that can work independently/effectively with cross functional matrixed teams
• Comfort with ambiguity, driving change and innovation across a matrix.

Nice To Haves

• science background strongly recommended
• An advanced degree (e.g., MS, MBA) is a plus.
• Experience with drug development, commercialization, healthcare, clinical trial management a plus.

Responsibilities

• In partnership with the Medical Lead, facilitate the development, execution and strategic reviews of Medical Plans: supports to align the Medical Plan with TA portfolio objectives; support the activities of multi-disciplinary groups to meet the objectives and implementation milestones outlined in the medical plan(s).
• Partner with the Medical Lead in overseeing AIMs (Asset Indication Medical) Team meeting: organizing, managing and communicating the portfolio of projects aligned with the AIMs goals and objectives.
• Drive efficient operations, strategic alignment, and effective knowledge exchange.
• Provides support, as well as monitoring and tracking other key projects to ensure their successful completion.
• Prepare agendas, manage content, align presenters/materials, minutes, tracking action items, key decision/next steps, ensure representation in the decision-making process from the appropriate cross-functional partners, maintain SharePoint documentation.
• S&O and LT support (LT meetings, quarterly business reviews, budget reduction scenario plans).
• Maintain Medical plans, manage dependencies across functions, and provide transparency to medical leads and senior leaders.
• Facilitate comprehensive project plans and progress reports for team leads, senior management and other stakeholders, as needed.
• Track, measure, provide performance updates and identify risk areas or barriers impeding successful execution.
• Work with teams, medical leadership, and/or senior management to resolve issues.
• Partner with Finance and Medical leads to facilitate the budget process including trade-off discussions and on an ongoing basis ensure the brand budgets (including facilitation of annual budget, monthly projections, accruals, variance analysis and budget planning for the coming year) are on track.
• Partner with the Congress Management team, EMCoE and Corporate Giving.
• Support key cross-functional strategic initiatives lead by the medical team by providing project management expertise for project planning including aligning on tasks, resource needs, timelines and objectives
• Identify, develop and implement new processes to facilitate continued evolution of the Operations function and improve efficiency of the medical organization.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders, including Development Teams, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Commercial and Medical team members, to influence strategic alignment on key medical objectives.
• Ensure Medical Team members are fully represented in the decision-making process with knowledge exchange.
• Distribution List management.
• Ensure key communication points are captured and disseminated.

Benefits

• wellbeing support
• retirement and financial protection benefits
• insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 11 paid company holidays each year
• 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires
• 3 optional holidays
• paid sick leave
• up to two paid volunteer days per year
• summer hours flexibility
• leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs
• annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day

What This Job Offers

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