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Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Strategy, Culture & Operations plays a crucial role in driving organizational effectiveness within Commercialization BI&T by supporting and implementing strategies aligned with key priorities. This position requires collaboration across various departments, a detail-oriented mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while maintaining operational focus.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Participate in the development of short-term and long-range strategic plans based on organizational goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Commercialization BI&T teams as well as cross-functional teams, including HR, Finance, and Procurement, to ensure effective implementation of strategies and processes.
• Project Management: Lead and manage special strategic initiatives from ideation to execution, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives.
• Financial Data Analysis & Management: Analyze financial data to generate insights that inform strategic decisions and improve operational processes.
• Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies in existing workflows and propose solutions for optimization, automation, and enhanced data utilization.
• Reporting: Prepare detailed reports and presentations for Commercialization BI&T teams and management, summarizing project outcomes and strategic recommendations.
• Communications: Responsible for core communications activities and related content, such as newsletters, town halls, culture events, team meetings, and more.
• Culture: Drive cultural initiatives and spearhead programs aimed at strengthening culture across Commercialization BI&T.
• Workforce Strategy: Responsible for workforce strategy, including headcount management, skillsets, and organizational charts.

Qualifications & Experience

• BA or BS Required, advanced scientific or graduate degree highly preferred
• Ability to assess and optimizing user experience with communications channels through analytics (eg, websites, SharePoint, social media, etc.)
• Excellent written, oral, interpersonal, presentation and storytelling skills with the ability to effectively interface with senior management
• Demonstrated communications experience including planning, writing, editing, designing and the production of newsletters, email banners, infographics, marketing literature, and other print or online material
• Experience in public speaking and group facilitation; ability to develop and clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences is required
• Excellent project leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to lead a project and develop collaborative relationships with multi-disciplinary stakeholders
• Self-motivated with exceptional follow-through
• Must be organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Looks for challenging opportunities and focuses on building strong capabilities
• Encourages and coaches others to do the same.
• Exceptional leadership qualities and be a motivator of people
• Ability to direct individuals and delegate responsibilities and tasks 
• Experience workingacross matrixed teams
• Self-motivated, always learning - foster an eagerness to learn, grow, explore, and hone your skills 
• Process-driven, people-friendly team member
• Detail and solutions-oriented mindset 
• Strong organizational skills coupled with detail-oriented style

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

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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