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At Bristol Myers Squibb we are reimagining the future of cell therapy. With our bold ambition, backed by a best-in-the-industry team and long-term commitment, we are leading the way to unlock the full promise of cell therapy as we strive to put more patients on the path to a cure. If you are ready to challenge yourself, accelerate your career, and give new hope to patients, there's no better place than here at BMS with our Cell Therapy team.

Position Summary

The Director, Cell Therapy Strategy & Business Operations is responsible for driving the roll-out of the yearly business processes, performance, budget, communications, and governance of Cell Therapy Global Supply Chain pillars they support and maximizing organizational effectiveness in collaboration with the department head and the functions' leadership team.

This leader will also lead ad hoc Global Supply-chain wide initiatives and deliverables in collaboration with their peers.

This position plays a key role in driving and supporting the Global Supply Chain Evolution and works closely with the leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, synergies, harmonization as appropriate across the organization. This person works closely together with the Cell Therapy GSC leadership functions, business partners, and stakeholders and leverages Cell Therapy supply chain knowledge for efficient functional support.

This position reports directly to the Vice President, Cell Therapy Global Supply Chain

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Business planning: leads cascade of yearly business calendar processes for Cell Therapy SC pillars

• Strategic planning process: coordinate the strategy cascade, ensure resources and priorities are aligned

• Goals & Objective and KPI definition and target setting

• Portfolio business planning: monitors and sustains the book of work and roadmap of Project and initiatives

• Financial budget and projections cycles

• Leads and supports the Cell Therapy SC pillars governance

• Ensure adequate KPI dashboards and performance reviews, highlighting trends and risks, define recommendations for improvement and tracking progress as required

• Monitors progress on Goals & Objectives

• Prepare and facilitate Cell Therapy SC and LT meetings

• Leads and coordinates consistent and adequate Cell Therapy SC change and culture initiatives for the pillars in collaboration with the functions' leadership teams

• Coordinate content coordination and deployment for all communication channels (newsletter, townhall, engagement sessions...), define and provide input to the Cell Therapy SC-wide communication

• Leads and/or coordinates culture, learning and change initiatives

• Promotes high standards for organizational efficiency, transparency throughout the organization in strong collaboration within the team, the leadership, and the stakeholders

• Identifies continuous improvement opportunities, initiates, and leads improvement initiatives, establishes, and maintains best practices and fit for purpose approaches

• Ensures fit-for-purpose adoption and connectivity with GPS S&BE and the Cell Therapy and GSC functions

• Participates in the Cell Therapy SC Strategy & Business Operations Community of Practice

• Leadership:

• Is an ambassador for Cell Therapy Global Supply Chain and the function they represent

• Enables rapid decision-making by removing barriers, setting clear priorities, and streamlining processes; provides the relevant information, resources and tools that enable others to own decisions and take action.

• Creates a safe space for speaking truth and idea generation; encourages constructive disagreement and creative debate; celebrates both go and no-go decisions; values individuals that flag risks or present efficiencies even if they result in a change of course.

• Acts as a coach to the shared resources

• Creates strong partnerships with the stakeholders

• Collaboration and support:

• Has a deep understanding of many facets of the Cell Therapy SC pillars, including the operations, operating model, mission, needs, systems and tools, and stakeholder ecosystem involved in Cell Therapy SC pillars

• Able to leverage expertise/understanding of Cell Therapy GSC functions to work autonomously / using best practices to effectively and flexibly support Cell Therapy in a multitude of critical areas

• Remains up to date on digital solutions, such as emerging systems or tools, that can be adopted to continuously improve existing processes

• May act as a back-up for his peers

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required in engineering, supply chain or business with a Masters or MBA preferred.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in operations, supply chain, preferably in the biopharma industry

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills at all levels of the organization; excellent presentation skills, both material creation and delivery

• Demonstrated learning agility; ability to adapt in an agile way as required

• Ability to set and deliver results in dynamic, rapidly evolving environments; ability to think critically about issues and understand context and likely challenges; ability to balance strategic awareness & direction setting with consistent tactical results

• Ability to closely monitor execution of plans, measure of results and correct deviations, as appropriate

• Strong problem solving, negotiating and decision-making skills; ability to implement decisions quickly

• Good clarity of judgement and effective at implementation of solutions. Decisively confronts and resolves issues. Shows courage. Works constructively under pressure.

• Good planning, analytical, time management and organizational skills

• Self-motivated and comfortable working alone or as part of a larger team

• Capability to build effective partnership and relationship in a matrix organization

• Creates a climate that fosters personal investment and excellence, nurtures commitment to common goals

• Financial management exposure, awareness, and strong acumen

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, organized and able to prioritize execution activities to meet multiple deadlines

• Demonstrated experience in developing, aligning, socializing, monitoring, adapting, and delivering strategies in dynamic, rapidly changing environments

• Experience working on and leading global teams

• Demonstrated Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement skill set and delivery

• Experience working with numerous systems and tools to enable digital success; up-to-date on emerging technology and able to quickly adapt to new digital ways of working / systems

The starting compensation for this job based in the Washington area is a range from $194,000 - $242,000, plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).

The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed.

Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit our BMS Career Site (http://careers.bms.com/working-with-us) .

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: 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.

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Req Number: R1587614

Updated: 2024-12-02 03:45:31.019 UTC

Location: Devens-MA

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