Senior Director, Finance, Commercialization & Medical

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.

The Senior Finance Director of Above Market Commercialization and Central Medical will be responsible for Above Market FP&A Commercialization capabilities, including multi-billion-dollar operating expense management, standardization of reporting & analytics to drive business performance and facilitate timely decision making as well as alignment with enterprise priorities. Respective insights and the role’s connectivity will be critical in shaping the overall Commercialization resource priorities.

The role will lead across the matrix and partner with four Commercial Leadership Team members. The role reports into the Executive Director, Commercialization FP&A Center of Excellence and collaborates closely with the Senior Director, WW Reporting.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Business partner to the Senior VP of Global Medical, Senior VP of Global Market Access, VP WW Commercial Strategy as well as the VP Commercialization AI Strategy & Analytics. Member of their respective leadership teams, and trusted partner to ensure BMS objectives are achieved.
• Manage end to end budget, projection and financial close processes, including providing in depth analysis of financial performance, challenging results and forecasts, driving achievement of targets, timely identification of risks and opportunities and communication of results to Commercial leadership.
• Serve key role as partner to the Leadership teams on resource allocation decisions, including optimization through portfolio prioritization, operational excellence and innovation (AI and automation).
• Collaborate with several Commercial and Finance stakeholder groups, including Medical and Commercial stakeholders (e.g., Therapeutic Areas, Medical Evidence Generation, Strategy & Operations, CASA, Commercial Excellence) and Finance stakeholders (e.g., Commercial HQ, Controllership, Procurement and CFR).
• Ensuring business priorities are aligned with markets, regions and therapeutic areas;
  Ability to influence outcomes supported by data-driven analysis.
• Managing FP&A capabilities across Above Market, including reporting, planning, and overall calendar for an organization with multi-billion dollars in operating expenses.
• Standardization of Reporting & Analytics:
  Delivering timely, accurate and consistent reporting and analyses Implementing Data-Driven Processes: data readiness, analytics, and automation.
• Close partnership with Commercial Digital Finance and Commercial WW Reporting.
• Manage a team of 4 individuals in NJ focused on above market capabilities.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum education of a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or a related field is required; MBA is preferred.
• Minimum of twelve (12) plus years of relevant finance experience in business planning, budgeting, and profitability analysis is required.
• Strong FP&A skills and ability to orchestrate global processes is highly preferred. Pharmaceutical industry experience is preferred.
• Proven leadership capabilities and collaboration across global/regional teams.
• Strong ability to lead in the matrix organization and experienced in senior stakeholder management.
• Ability to translate high-level strategy into day-to-day operations.
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