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Overview:

As part of BMS’ Procurement Professional Services ("PS") team, the Consulting category addresses strategy, implementation and operations services procured to support BMS enterprise, business and operational priorities. The Consulting Services category, with critical and confidential matters and senior stakeholders (including BMS CEO and Leadership Team), require strong dedicated and talented Business Partnering & Strategy (“BP&S”) and Sourcing execution teams to build trust, relationships and support Procurement and business objectives to drive value. Projects in this category require Procurement expertise to address sourcing and contracting requirements, engagement with senior business, finance, and procurement leaders, cross functional collaboration, strategic and innovative client-centric sourcing solutions. In addition, this role will be critical in supporting Consulting governance processes, as well as key financial planning, analysis and reporting processes. This role will multi-task across a portfolio of projects spanning contracting, sourcing, financial analytics and governance, business partnering, and supplier relationship management within the Consulting category remit. This role will be key to shaping and enhancing the Consulting Lighthouse Governance process at Bristol Myers Squibb and contributing to our Pipeline objective to enable the acceleration and sustainability of our pipeline, portfolio & priorities, ensuring optimized internal and external partner experience and connecting business leaders, strategic suppliers, finance and procurement teams to deliver seamless operation of Consulting Lighthouse governance processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with BP&S Category leads, business, finance and supplier partners to ensure successful Consulting Services category governance, compliance, financial planning, reporting, and data analytics. 

• Project manage the end-to-end Consulting Services Lighthouse governance and compliance processes from intake through successful sourcing execution, inclusive of:
  • Intake management, triage, tracking and prioritization
  • Spend and budget review and alignment
  • Requirements review
  • Initial review to facilitate sourcing, contracting and negotiation alignment
  • Category taxonomy identification and selection for accurate categorization and reporting of Consulting Services engagements
  • Stakeholder management and provision of guidance on required Consulting governance, workflow and approval processes. Assistance in navigating required processes
  • Systems entry and coordination (Lighthouse Sharepoint, SpendHQ Intake, Icertis Contract Management, Procurement Navigator and Oro)
  • Provide inputs to support category analyses, budget and financial tracking and reporting, and alignment with Finance partners and Leadership Team members
  • Provide recommendations for process and reporting enhancements and simplification, including ongoing collaboration with BMS’ Business Insights and Analytics team to deliver such enhancements in partnership
  • Coordination, tracking and reporting on spend vs. centralized, business and specified budgets
  • Alignment with Purchase Order (PO) coordinators to ensure accuracy (Category and Financial specifics)
  • Support the development and preparation of executive summaries required to obtain leadership approval of proposed Consulting Services engagements, including:
    • Business requirements review
    • Contract / Services assessment and classification
    • Historical consulting transaction reviews
    • Budget review and alignment
    • Executive level summary of contract highlights, risks, benefits, financials, supplier justification and other salient points for leadership attention

Support end-to-end implementation of Sourcing and Contracting Strategy, including identification of optimal application of procurement approaches, and contribute to Consulting category strategy development.

• Ability to manage a large book of work across multiple individuals, teams, geographies.
• Must be able to bring organization and transparency in a fast-paced environment.  
• Support and provide guidance to the BMS Agile Sourcing execution team in their preparation and solicitation of competitive bids, quotations, and proposals; where necessary, advise on the evaluation of competitive offerings and subsequent negotiations and contracting. 
• Provide insights from internal and market analytics to influence the development of strategic category plans; partner with category leaders and business partners on plan development, including building plans for Consulting sub-categories.  Build understanding of BMS’s global, end-to- end value chain as it relates to categories in focus. 
• Lead Book of Work review meetings to track and prioritize the Consulting Services project portfolio, align on timelines, assist in removing barriers to execution, and support escalations, as needed.  
• Guide and support extended team members with successful project planning and execution in support of organizational objectives and sourcing strategies. 
• Act as an escalation point for Enabling Services Agile Sourcing team supporting contracting, sourcing, and data analytics initiatives.  Including assistance in proper scoping of needs/requests that are submitted from business stakeholders. 
• Oversee the development and execution of sourcing events and proposals with pertinent specifications, terms, and conditions. 

 Support supplier management tasks for select categories and suppliers. 

• Analyze contracts to generate insights for category leads and leadership, empowering Consulting Lighthouse governance and Supplier Relationship Management efforts. 
• Support appropriate audit or audit readiness. 
• As required for function and categories assigned, support the design and development of procurement compliance programs, including category-specific risk management efforts.
• Support implementing and managing the small business and disadvantaged suppliers search and development programs.
• Work with assigned strategic suppliers to collect, store, analyze and manage monthly Supplier project portfolio reports and incorporate into necessary category and supply strategies and associated presentations and reports. Provide recommendations to BP&S category leads for supplier and process optimization.

 Support Consulting Services category continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Champion process improvements, recommending new ways of working to improve processes and embed new systems
• Lead or participate in organizational cross-functional development such as process improvement, capabilities development efforts, continuous innovation programs
   

Qualifications & Experience 
Minimum Requirements 

• B.S./B.A. (Business, Science or Engineering) is desirable; advanced education (e.g., JD, MBA, MS) preferred. 
• Minimum of 8 years’ work experience with at least 5 years in procurement categories including but not limited to IT, Consulting Services, Financial Services, Corporate Services, HR Services etc. 
• Strong contracting acumen with experience in negotiating complex contracts including but not limited to Master Services Agreements. 
• Strong understanding of the supplier & services sourcing process with experience in RFx development and execution. 
• Strong understanding of data analytics, category management, project, and performance management 
• Expertise in procurement processes, technology, and systems (such as Ariba, SAP, Icertis), contract and supplier analysis and management, financial analysis, market analysis, supplier diversity, strategic planning, and integrated supply chain. 
• Demonstrated ability to partner with and manage internal stakeholders up to some senior leaders within a highly matrixed organization, working across cross-functional, cross-organizational teams.
• Strong project management and executive communication skills
• Proficiency in English 

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