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.
o Lead the assessment, redesign, and optimization of sourcing and cat egory management processes.
o Implement best practices, standardization, and automation to drive efficiency and compliance.
o Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and training materials.
o Partner with IT and platform owners to deploy and enhance digital sourcing tools and analytics platforms.
o Leverage data and advanced analytics to identify improvement opportunities and inform strategic decisions.
o Champion automation and digital workflows to streamline sourcing and category management.
o Define and track KPIs for process performance, user experience, and adoption.
o Analyze performance data and provide actionable insights to the Sr Director and leadership team.
o Drive accountability for continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
o Proactively seek out and introduce innovative solutions, technologies, and best practices.
o Maintain an active external presence—participate in industry forums, conferences, and professional networks.
o Benchmark processes against industry leaders to ensure the organization remains competitive.
o Engage with stakeholders across procurement, IT, finance, legal, and business units to ensure seamless process integration.
o Facilitate forums for alignment, decision-making, and best practice sharing.
o Develop and execute change management strategies to drive adoption of new processes and tools.
o Communicate process changes effectively and support global training initiatives.
o Gather and incorporate stakeholder feedback to enhance process outcomes.
We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.
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.
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At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome.
Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients.
Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.
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