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Position: VP, Corporate Strategy Lead

Location: Lawrenceville, NJ

The VP, Corporate Strategy Lead is a pivotal role within an organization, tasked with the development and oversight of strategic plans that guide BMS towards sustained growth and profitability. This executive bears the primary responsibility for crafting, refining, and gaining approval for the strategic plan, ensuring it aligns with the company's long-term objectives and market dynamics. The VP of Corporate Strategy collaborates closely with senior management and key stakeholders to ensure the strategic plan is robust, actionable, and has the consensus needed for successful implementation. Their expertise in market research, competitive analysis, and strategic modeling is crucial for anticipating future trends and positioning the company to capitalize on new opportunities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Strategic planning: Lead the strategic planning efforts for projects and define the project management methodologies used across the company.
• Overseeing project initiatives: Supervise project activities, ensuring they align with BMS’s strategic goals.
• Developing project management methodologies: Responsible for creating and implementing project management processes that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Managing project finances: Oversees the financial aspects of projects, ensuring they stay within budget and resources are allocated appropriately.
• Building relationships: Establish and maintain strong working relationships across various geographies and organizations is key to the role.
• Governance: Ensure that project management procedures and governance are well-established and maintained throughout the organization.
• Resource management: Manage and allocates resources effectively across projects, based on priorities and schedules.
• Risk and change management: Oversee business administration, risk management, and change management related to projects.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in business administration, economics, or a related field; Project Management Professional (PMP)/Sigma Certification a plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in strategic planning or consulting, preferably in biopharmaceutical industry.
• At least five years experience in a leadership/supervisory role, including managing different key stakeholder (board and LT)
• Experience with strategic planning and governance of project portfolios is expected.
• Strong attention to details and technicalities is crucial for overseeing complex project portfolios.
• Understanding of enterprise-wide business functions.
• The ability to manage and allocate resources effectively across projects according to priorities and schedules while mitigating risk.
• Deep understanding of BMS Strategy and external industry landscape & perspectives

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.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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