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Expected Areas of Competence

The candidate will support in the management of alliances of significant strategic importance and complexity, and independently manage alliances of moderate complexity. Under the guidance of Global Alliance leadership, the candidate will interface with internal and external partner leadership to ensure strategic and execution alignment for alliances, including leading or supporting governance meetings, consensus building, and dispute resolution. The candidate will play a key strategic role in the successful management and oversight of BMS external alliances, engaging in joint operational and collaboration decisions with all stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will embrace the opportunity to engage in challenging work, with an ability to operate and excel in a fast pace, dynamic environment. Collaboration, communication, and relationship building are key attributes to success in this role. Bristol Myers Squibb strives to be the partner-of-choice in the biopharmaceutical industry, and as a member of the Global Alliance team, this position will play an important role in achieving the BMS partner-of-choice objective.

Key activities

• With oversight from the manager, lead and oversee a portfolio of external alliances (e.g., active collaborations with a meaningful impact on the BMS portfolio across TAs/DAs and/or pipeline goals, the potential to be integrated into the internal pipeline); potential to support manager or other senior Global Alliance leaders on Tier 1 (high complexity) alliances.
• Responsibilities include leading meetings for all joint working groups, and joint governance committees, establishing collaboration goals, and leading consensus building and dispute resolution.
• Map out and execute relationship management strategy with input from BMS Global Alliance leadership, oversee and approve supplementary contracting and documentation, and develop thorough understanding and monitoring of contracts, work/research plans, etc.
• Meaningfully contribute to strategies for external alliances and engage in joint operational and collaboration decisions with alliances.
• Lead, with input from Legal and BD, amendments, minor re-negotiations, extensions, and terminations of existing collaborations.
• Serve as the main BMS point of contact for external alliance counterpart(s), including external partner senior leadership.
• Travel to partner sites to maintain relationships and manage in-person interactions with external stakeholders.
• Attend various external industry and Alliance Management conferences on behalf of BMS.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years of pharmaceutical industry experience with adept scientific knowledge and a track record of managing third parties at various service levels.
• Highly effective at building relationships and leading by influence.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to succinctly summarize and explain complex situations, decisions, options, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve conflict and exercise diplomacy at a high level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. or MBA or equivalent preferred.
• Alliance Management or related skills preferred.
• Experience and comfort with contractual and legal terms.
• High level of business acumen.

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 an inclusive culture, promoting diversity 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
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

COVID-19 Information
To protect the safety of our workforce, customers, patients and communities, the policy of the Company requires all employees and workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have received an exception based on an approved request for a medical or religious reasonable accommodation. Therefore, all BMS applicants seeking a role located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico must confirm that they have already received or are willing to receive the full COVID-19 vaccination by their start date as a qualification of the role and condition of employment. This requirement is subject to state and local law restrictions and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions such as Montana. This requirement is also subject to discussions with collective bargaining representatives in the U.S.

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