Associate Director, Strategy and Operations, Trial Delivery Support

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Summary

The primary focus of this strategic role is to drive alignment with corporate objectives through three crucial pillars: unifying the Trial Delivery Support (TDS) organization and streamlining ways of working, bringing a best-in-practice mindset to objectives execution in TDS, and establishing TDS alignment to support the Global Development Operations (GDO) vision of delivering medicines to patients faster. This position reports directly to the President of Trial Delivery Support and provides key support to the TDS leadership team.

Description

• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the TDS Leadership Team, driving the execution of priorities and alignment across functions.
• Provide strategic planning and analysis, including the development of roadmaps, key performance indicators, tracking of strategic objectives, and financial representation of budgets and headcount across various functions within Trial Delivery Support.
• Orchestrate leadership operations, including leadership team meetings, governance, communications, and organizational planning, ensuring clarity and accountability.
• Lead the coordination of forums, town halls, and engagement initiatives to strengthen culture and connectivity across TDS.
• Develop key communications, plans, and visual metrics to enable the leadership team to communicate with key stakeholders across Global Development Operations.
• Champion efficiency and consistency by standardizing processes, developing playbooks, and tracking KPIs and success factors.

Responsibilities

• Drive leadership team meeting cadence, including agendas, minutes, follow-ups, and action tracking.
• Manage trackers for organizational charts, hiring/promotion/travel, functional roadmaps, and quarterly objectives.
• Lead the preparation of decision briefs, pre-reads, and reporting for leadership team governance.
• Oversee communication platforms (SharePoint, Viva Engage) and deliver forums, town halls, and coffee chats.
• Partner with the leadership team to define KPIs, track success factors, and measure strategic impact.
• Build and maintain standardized meetings, planning, and communications.

Requirements

• 68 years of experience in strategic operations, program management, or Chief of Staff roles, with a proven ability to translate strategy into execution.
• Strong foundation in governance, communications, and cross-functional leadership across global teams.
• Skilled at balancing competing priorities, ensuring follow-through, and fostering organizational alignment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, adept at tailoring messaging for diverse audiences and leaders.
• Experienced in developing KPIs, dashboards, and process improvements to enhance decision-making and business impact.
• Recognized for collaborative leadership, discretion, and influencing without authority.
• Travel Requirements - as needed up to 20%.

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.

Compensation Overview: Princeton - NJ - US: $166,340 - $201,561. The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee's work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. 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 careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/

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 a supportive culture, promoting global participation 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 an 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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