Senior Director, Strategic Program Delivery (2 openings)

Bristol Myers Squibb; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

11 paid company holidays

Paid vacation

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton, NJ seeks a Senior Director, Strategic Program Delivery to accelerate PDS strategy and drive execution across cross-functional teams. You will partner with senior leaders to frame complex problems, set milestones, and deliver measurable value in high-visibility programs.

This role requires an MBA or advanced degree and 10+ years in pharma or life sciences, with proven ability to influence executives, lead program management at scale, and communicate clearly

Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree in science, business, or related field.
• 10+ years of pharma or life sciences experience with enterprise initiatives.
• Experience at top-tier strategy consulting strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in matrix environments.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead enterprise-level initiatives with problem framing, outcomes, governance, and roadmaps.
• Define workstreams, milestones, owners, success measures, and strategic levers to deliver value.
• Translate market signals into implications for growth and performance for senior leaders.
• Lead cross-functional teams with structured forums, tracking, and risk management.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder influence

Program management

Data-driven analysis

Executive communication

Education

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Position Summary

The Product Development and Supply (PDS) Chief of Staff (CoS) organization is responsible for accelerating PDS by building out PDS strategy and developing systems of excellence across disciplines related to strategy, business operations, data and digital, and program management. Reporting to the VP, CoS, this position will serve as a thought partner to PDS business leaders and be responsible for working with teams across PDS to drive strategy execution and build strategic program leadership capabilities across PDS. The Strategic Program Delivery is accountable for shaping, developing, and accelerating PDS’s most strategic priorities. Across these strategic priorities, the role contributes to the development of PDS strategic planning, provides insight into external signals that could impact strategic direction or growth, and accelerates value delivery across PDS’s most strategic and highest-risk programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-lead with business leaders on the most complex, enterprise-level initiatives by establishing the problem statement, desired outcomes, decision rights, governance, and integrated roadmap; connect functions around dependencies and trade-offs; and maintain a disciplined cadence for decisions, risks, and progress.
• Co-lead the highest-priority PDS initiatives end-to-end—from framing the initial hypothesis and testing assumptions through mobilization and execution enablement—by defining workstreams, milestones, owners, success measures, and the strategic levers required to deliver value.
• Translate business intelligence and external market signals into clear implications for growth, performance, and strategic direction; synthesize findings into concise scenarios and recommendations; and brief senior and executive leaders at key planning and decision points.
• Lead cross-functional program teams through a fit-for-purpose operating rhythm, including clear working-team and steering-team forums, decision and action tracking, dependency management, benefit measures, and escalation paths that build organizational capability and deliver measurable, sustainable business value.
• Independently structure ambiguous, undefined problems by gathering perspectives and evidence, developing and testing hypotheses, and converting complexity into practical frameworks, options, and recommendations that enable timely senior-leadership decisions.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, including senior functional leaders, to drive rigorous analysis of complex data sets and business processes.
• Develop and deliver executive-level communications—including decision briefs, steering updates, and leadership narratives—that make the issue, options, recommendation, value, risks, and required actions clear and drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
• Serve as an escalation point and advisor on program risk, prioritization trade-offs, and resourcing decisions across the strategic portfolio.
• Build and sustain an engaging, inclusive team environment that encourages collaboration, strategic program leadership capability-building, and professional growth.

Qualifications & Experience

• MBA or advanced degree in science, business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10+ years of industry-related experience in pharma or life sciences, including significant experience developing and/or leading strategic initiatives at an enterprise level.
• Significant experience at a top-tier strategy consulting firm strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated track record leading, coaching, and developing senior program/project leaders and cross-functional teams at scale.
• Demonstrated exceptional ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders in matrix environments.
• Expert at driving organizational change management and adoption at an enterprise level, with tenacity and perseverance for leading change through ambiguity.
• Deep understanding of global biopharmaceutical market dynamics and trends, with the ability to translate them into strategic implications for business units.
• Masterful project and program leadership, with a strong, demonstrated track record of value delivery on complex, high-visibility initiatives.
• Ability to distill complex information into frameworks that facilitate senior leadership decision-making.
• Expert communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills.

Travel

Up to 25%

Compensation Overview

Devens - MA - US: $247,400 - $299,792 Princeton - NJ - US: $224,910 - $272,538

The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.

Benefits

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People With Disabilities

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