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Position Summary
The Director Global Policy and Business Strategy Integration is responsible for developing and implementing a Global Policy Strategy aligned with the business priorities and overall corporate goals, with direct accountability for Cell Therapy.
This role is accountable to ensure that Policy & Government Affairs insights are fully integrated into commercial business planning to support the success of BMS’s product portfolio and commercial strategy.
The Director will work in partnership with the prioritized markets to advance key policy initiatives aligned with the Global Policy Strategy.
This position requires strong leadership skills, matrix influence, and executive presence to provide guidance to senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Global Policy and Business Strategy Coordination:
Leadership in Strategic Alignment: Lead efforts to ensure that global policy strategies are synchronized with commercial priorities and enterprise goals, driving the success of the Cell Therapy.
Joint Objective Setting: Effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercial, market access, medical, and R&D, to set and execute joint objectives, linking policy initiatives to therapeutic and product goals.
Policy Integration into Business Planning:
Strategic Integration: Ensure that Policy & Government Affairs insights are integrated into the business planning processes for Cell Therapy, and the broader enterprise strategy.
Cross-Functional Engagement: Collaborate across functions such as commercial, market access, medical, and R&D to ensure that policy insights are factored into product launch plans, market access, lifecycle management and portfolio prioritization strategies.
Market and Therapeutic Area Support:
Direct Market Support: Offer hands-on guidance and strategic support to key markets on high-priority projects designed to drive Cell Therapy strategic objectives, adapting global strategies to local needs.
Therapeutic Area Focus: Ensure policy strategies are adapted to address the specific challenges and opportunities of Cell Therapy, such as access, regulatory approvals, and reimbursement frameworks.
Leadership and Matrix Influence:
Matrix Leadership: Lead and influence across a complex global matrix organization, ensuring Global Policy strategy alignment with business priorities.
Executive Presence: Represent the GPGA function within senior leadership settings, including the Cell Therapy leadership team.
Policy Advocacy and External Engagement:
Advocacy Leadership: Develop and implement Policy Advocacy initiatives by engaging with external stakeholders, including government bodies, regulatory agencies, and industry organizations, to support policy outcomes that advance business goals.
Stakeholder Engagement: Foster long-term external multistakeholder relationships to shape favorable policy environments for Cell Therapy.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting:
Impact Monitoring: Develop and establish systems to track and evaluate the impact of policy initiatives on Cell Therapy and business outcomes, with regular reporting to senior leadership.
KPIs and Metrics: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of global policy strategies in advancing business outcomes.
Qualifications & Experience
Education:
Advanced degree in business, public policy, political science, law, or a related field.
Experience:
10 years of experience in public policy, government affairs, marketing, market access, strategy, or a related field, with significant experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
Proven track record of organizational leadership and management experience, the ability to motivate others to advance goals, and the ability to effectively manage multiple projects or roles in a rapidly evolving environment.
Proven track record of influential leadership
In-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, therapeutic area dynamics, and business strategy.
Skills:
Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills and executive presence to engage with senior leaders.
Consensus building: Demonstrated skills in leading consensus-building processes
Leadership and Influence: Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive coordination in a matrixed environment across diverse global teams and Global-to-markets and ability to lead and influence senior level policy discussions both internally and externally.
Global Perspective: ability to navigate in complex global regulatory, policy and business environments.
Strategic Thinking: Understands the long-term business strategy and related internal and external challenges while creating operational plans that help execute the longer-range plan. Ability to coordinate policy efforts with broader business strategies to achieve long-term goals
International travel required up to 25%
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Compensation Overview:
Madison - Giralda - NJ - US: $206,210 - $249,878
Princeton - NJ - US: $206,210 - $249,878 
Washington DC - US: $206,210 - $249,878

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 in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:
Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
Work-life benefits include:
Paid Time Off
US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)
Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays
Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.
*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
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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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R1601483 : Director, Global Policy and Business Strategy Integration – Cell Therapy