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This role provides programmatic, operational, and data-informed decision support to the CDP (Clinical Development Procurement) Leadership Team—coordinating priorities, tracking execution, and ensuring disciplined delivery of the function’s transformation agenda. Serving as the connective hub across CDP initiatives, this position integrates governance, performance reporting, and digital enablement to enhance operational effectiveness and execution transparency while reinforcing CDP’s evolution into a next-generation, agile organization.
Working closely with category leaders and business partners across Finance, Legal, and IT, the role drives alignment of priorities, maintains leadership reporting, and supports decision-making through timely information flow and structured communication. This individual acts as a trusted partner to the Head of CD Procurement translating strategy into clear execution plans, monitoring progress, and enabling continuous improvement across projects and governance forums.
Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Coordinate leadership priorities and program milestones across the CDP organization, maintaining performance summaries and dashboards that provide visibility to progress and outcomes.
Develop and maintain standard tools, templates, and governance documents to drive consistency in execution and reporting.
Consolidate key data inputs and prepare summaries for leadership reviews and enterprise reporting.
Coordinate post-initiative reviews and lessons learned to strengthen future delivery and accountability.
Financial Analysis & Data-Driven Recommendations
Identify, track, and report cost-savings for the CDP team.
Perform financial analysis on rate cards, master pricing models, prebates, rebates, outcome-based contracting, volume-tier discounting structures, deliverable-based pricing models, etc.
Expertise to extract valuable insights and make recommendations to better direct decision making.
Maintain accurate summaries and reports to inform leadership discussions on team performance versus objectives.
Supplier Performance and Risk Coordination
Coordinate the collection and consolidation of supplier performance and operational data to support reviews led by category heads.
Maintain accurate summaries and reports to inform leadership discussions on supplier trends and risk areas.
Ensure data consistency and clarity across reporting tools to support governance without direct ownership of supplier management activities.
Performance Measurement and Value Tracking
Provide value-tracking and performance measurement support to CDP leadership, consolidating information on budget utilization, cost-management initiatives, and transformation outcomes.
Create standard summaries and visual reports to support forecasting discussions and strategic prioritization decisions.
Procurement of Ancillary Services and Ad-Hoc Clinical Category Support
Coordinate and support the procurement of ancillary clinical services—such as translation, travel logistics, local laboratory testing, and other study-related services—ensuring alignment with functional and enterprise standards.
Support ad-hoc sourcing activities or short-cycle category requests as directed by category leads or the Head of CDP, providing documentation, supplier research, and pricing comparisons.
Participate in pricing discussions and benchmarking to support competitive, compliant supplier selections.
Maintain awareness of supplier performance, category spend, and contracting timelines to enable continuity and alignment with CDP processes.
Partner with Procurement Operations and Legal to ensure contracts are routed, tracked, and executed in compliance with company policies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership Support
Act as the central coordination point for the CDP Leadership Team—managing meeting cadence, follow-ups, communications, and tracking of strategic initiatives.
Partner across R&D, Finance, Legal, and Procurement functions to ensure alignment on priorities and timely execution of action items.
Support preparation of executive-level presentations, decision briefs, and materials for governance forums.
Anticipate leadership needs and proactively identify cross-functional synergies or process gaps that enhance operational effectiveness.
Governance and Compliance
Own and coordinate the CDP governance rhythm—calendar management, agenda planning, decision tracking, and leadership follow-up—to ensure transparent and disciplined execution.
Prepare executive-level briefs and decision materials that synthesize information and support data-informed decision-making during leadership reviews.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Coordinate implementation and sustainment of digital and reporting tools that enhance operational transparency and accountability across CDP.
Support process simplification and automation initiatives that improve efficiency and consistency.
Monitor emerging best practices to inform continuous improvement activities within the function.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
Serve as the central communications and coordination lead for the CDP Leadership Team—preparing executive updates, internal summaries, and materials for governance and enterprise forums.
Cultivate strong working relationships built on trust, transparency, and shared accountability to advance CDP’s strategic agenda.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
Minimum education of a B.S./B.A. is required; M.S./M.B.A. preferred.
Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience, including at least three (3) years in procurement, sourcing, or closely related roles within the biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical device, or comparable industry.
Prior experience supporting R&D or Clinical Development procurement functions preferred within life sciences or related areas including Product Development.
Demonstrated success contributing to or coordinating large-scale change management and transformation initiatives.
Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to measure cost savings, assess financial impact, and translate insights into business recommendations.
Solid project management capability with the ability to plan, prioritize, and execute multiple workstreams effectively.
Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills with knowledge of creative deal structuring and value-based supplier engagement.
Knowledge of procurement systems and tools such as Ariba and Icertis preferred.
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Compensation Overview:
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 https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
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. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.
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
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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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