Senior Manager, Project Manager, Franchise Strategy & Operations

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

7d • $122,910 - $148,938 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is a strategic and operational portfolio partner to the medical lead and team, supporting identification, planning, risk mitigation, and delivery of portfolio priorities and workstreams. Areas of work include Asset Indication Medical meetings, medical planning, budget management and planning, congress activities, advisory board planning, and portfolio governance and decision-making. The role partners across matrix functions—including Medical Evidence Generation, Finance, Development teams, Corporate Giving, advocacy, professional societies, and business operations—to support prioritization, decision-making, and One BMS collaboration.

The position supports development, execution, and strategic review of Medical Plans; coordinates AIMs team operations; maintains plans and project documentation; tracks progress, metrics, risks, dependencies, and budgets; and supports leaders through project plans, progress reports, communications, and decision-making processes. It also provides project management expertise for cross-functional strategic initiatives and identifies and implements processes to improve the efficiency and evolution of the medical organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical research, development, or commercialization; a science background is strongly recommended.
• Solid understanding of drug development and commercialization.
• Foundation in project management and relevant experience with matrix management, budget management, metrics, and leadership communication.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to interact directly and productively with team members and management.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to lead and participate in complex scientific discussions, develop and summarize clear follow-up and action plans, and execute them.
• Strong experience building relationships, leading strategic initiatives and programs, and collaborating across divisions with people from varied business backgrounds and cultural experiences.
• Highly organized and motivated, with the ability to work independently and effectively with cross-functional matrixed teams.
• Comfort with ambiguity and with driving change and innovation across a matrix.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree, such as an MS or MBA.
• Experience with drug development, commercialization, healthcare, or clinical trial management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Medical Lead to facilitate development, execution, and strategic reviews of Medical Plans, aligning plans with therapeutic-area portfolio objectives and supporting multidisciplinary groups in meeting objectives and implementation milestones.
• Oversee Asset Indication Medical (AIMs) team meetings with the Medical Lead, organizing and communicating the portfolio of projects aligned with AIMs goals and objectives.
• Support efficient AIMs operations, strategic alignment, and knowledge exchange; prepare agendas, manage content, coordinate presenters and materials, record minutes, track action items and decisions, ensure appropriate cross-functional representation, and maintain SharePoint documentation.
• Support Strategy & Operations and leadership team activities, including leadership meetings, quarterly business reviews, and budget-reduction scenario planning.
• Maintain Medical Plans, manage cross-functional dependencies, and provide transparency to medical leads and senior leaders.
• Develop comprehensive project plans and progress reports for team leads, senior management, and other stakeholders as needed.
• Track and measure performance, provide updates, identify risks and barriers, and work with teams, medical leadership, and senior management to resolve issues.
• Partner with Finance and Medical Leads on budget processes, trade-off discussions, annual budgets, monthly projections, accruals, variance analysis, and planning for the following year.
• Partner with the Congress Management team, EMCoE, and Corporate Giving.
• Provide project management expertise for medical-team-led cross-functional strategic initiatives, including planning tasks, resource needs, timelines, and objectives.
• Identify, develop, and implement processes to support the continued evolution and improved efficiency of the Operations function and medical organization.
• Build relationships with Development Teams, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Commercial, and Medical team members to influence strategic alignment on medical objectives.
• Ensure Medical Team members are represented in decision-making and support knowledge exchange.
• Manage distribution lists.
• Capture and disseminate key communications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, and 11 paid company holidays.
• Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, subject to manager approval, 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Depending on eligibility, additional time-off benefits may include paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer-hours flexibility, and leaves for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs.
• Eligible employees receive an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
• May be eligible for additional discretionary cash incentives and stock opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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