Director, Strategy & Business Operations

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Position Summary

• The Director, Strategy & Business Operations, will play a pivotal role in leading strategic projects and managing day-to-day operations for the Corporate Affairs team. This role will have responsibility for providing strategic support for corporate affairs initiatives and leading impactful projects.
• This position will work across Corporate Affairs, and with counterparts across the function, to ensure a consistent approach to projects and initiatives that have broad organizational impact. In addition, this role will support communications for the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, including day-to-day communications and broader organizational messaging.
• Reporting to the Executive Director of Strategy and Business Operations for Corporate Affairs, the Director, Strategy and Business Operations, will drive the implementation of the corporate affairs strategic plan.

Key responsibilities include:

Strategy Implementation & Change Enablement

• Operationalizes Corporate Affairs’ strategic plan through structured workstreams, milestones, and success metrics.
• Anticipates internal and external drivers of change and ensures readiness across teams through thoughtful planning and strategic alignment.
• Identifies opportunities to evolve the function’s operating model, resources, and workflows to better support enterprise needs.

Business Operations & Governance

• Enhances cross-functional collaboration through the design and implementation of governance processes, planning cycles, and performance tracking.
• Simplifies and standardizes systems, templates, and processes that increase agility and reduce inefficiencies.
• Leads annual planning coordination with senior leaders, aligning functional goals to broader business strategy.

Strategic Communications & Messaging

• Develops and executes internal strategic communications for the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, with a focus on clarity, alignment, and executive voice.
• Shapes content for leadership engagements (e.g., Town Halls, GLT updates, Board reporting) that connect employees to strategy and impact.
• Partners with Communications and other BMS functions to ensure messaging consistency and high-quality delivery across channels.

Enterprise Project Management

• Manages priority projects and special initiatives with high visibility across the company, ensuring executional excellence and strategic relevance.
• Coordinates with internal and external stakeholders to drive timelines, manage interdependencies, and mitigate risk.
• Supports post-project assessment to identify learnings and scalability opportunities.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of demonstrated experience in strategy and operations; corporate affairs and pharmaceutical experience preferred.
• Superior verbal and interpersonal communications skills, as well as strong presentation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent writing and research skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Strong strategic planning, process management and business planning skills.
• High level of integrity and professionalism, with a demonstrated commitment to confidentiality and handling sensitive information with discretion.
• Skilled in use of SharePoint, the Cloud, OneDrive, Excel and other contemporary tools.
• Demonstrates learning agility. Ability to quickly learn and operate within a complex, fast-paced and changing environment.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Ability to set and deliver in dynamic, rapidly evolving environment; ability to think critically about issues and understand context and likely challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully and effectively collaborate and work across boundaries (e.g. IR, Marketing, External Partners) and building strong external relationships.
• Ability to “flex” across different types of cultures, work, complexities, business situations and matrix partners
• Demonstration of all Core BMS Behaviors - Passion, Innovation, Accountability, Inclusion, Urgency and Integrity

The starting compensation for this job is a range from [$194,000-$235,500], 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 (https://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.

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 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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