Head of WW Strategic Collaborations

Profile

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global Biopharma company committed to a single mission: to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines focused on helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, immunoscience and fibrosis.

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The Worldwide Strategic Collaborations Lead is a Global position in the Medical Organization, focused on building research collaborations between BMS and external partners, such as academic and key research centers, community networks, professional societies and cooperative groups in order to accelerate specific Immuno-Oncology and Innovative Medicine research. The Worldwide Strategic Collaboration Lead is responsible for leading this global capability, ensuring the development, internal alignment and execution of the strategies across key research accounts.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provides global strategic direction, manages, and supports all existing Medical strategic collaboration (e.g., OAR, GECI, Societies and Associations, PICI/CRI), their evolution and potentially other partnerships.

Expand the scope of strategic collaborations into additional therapeutic areas, leveraging existing and/or new external partners

Organize an integrated capability and leadership/governance structure that can scale and evolve over time, and be leveraged for other key partnerships.

Effectively and efficiently partner with/advise Medical and R&D leadership to evaluate, assess, design, enhance and develop long and short term strategies for Strategic Collaborations (1-5 years).

Establish the global vision for this capability, build the internal and external brand and manage a robust stakeholder and change plan ensuring internal alignment.

Establish a trusted relationship across the BMS functional teams (e.g., Discovery, Development, Medical, Commercial) with these external collaborations and represent BMS enterprise needs to these collaborators.

Effective and timely triage of escalated issues across respective collaborations, including integrating and facilitating interactions with key internal customer-facing stakeholders and then mobilizing them to respond to customer needs in a global level.

Leverages analytics to identify opportunities to optimize performance across the Global Medical organization.

Evolve the existing Oncology Academic Research, and GECI teams ensuring execution of the strategies across the respective collaborations.

Act as the link between the worldwide teams, country teams, and the partners to ensure that the commitments of each partnership are consistently met.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

Advanced Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or similar field

Minimum 10 years of relevant leadership experience working in Pharmaceuticals, Bio-Technology and or related Medical Science businesses

Comfortable, capable and credible interacting across all levels of the business with a demonstrated track record of establishing and actively managing relationships with key external stakeholders, matrix partners and other company resources to optimize capabilities.

Extensive experience translating strategy into actionable projects and initiatives

Strong strategic, envisioning and critical thinking skills, with the ability to think/act both strategically and tactically

Proven track record developing effective strategic governance and communications that drive results

Effective communication and stakeholder management skills

Significant experience with collaborative projects, thought leader engagement or partnerships

Strong project management skills and substantive track record in working effectively with cross-functional teams

Ability to juggle multiple projects, shifts gears and adapt to changing business conditions to meet deadlines. Works well under the pressure of deadlines and changing priorities.

Experience leading global/virtual teams with a strong understanding across a range of medical, commercial and R&D roles

Proficiency with digital work tools (PowerPoint; Word; Excel; Outlook; Illustrator; SharePoint; Podcasting; Video; Survey Monkey; Web Content Management; Sway; Yammer).

Travel Requirement

HQ based position with international/domestic travel requirement between 30-40%.

Bristol-Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Company info

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
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