Director, Outsourcing Management

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This role has accountability over a team of outsourcing managers within a specific therapeutic area(s) and manages clinical trial vendor partnerships that supports alliance and outsourcing management across multiple service categories of clinical trial activities in R&D.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Leads a team of Outsourcing Associate Directors and Managers within a specific TA, and serve as main point of escalation for trial-level outsourcing concerns
• Ensures timely and high-quality provision of external services to all BMS clinical trials
• Oversees a portfolio of external alliances (high complexity) with the Associate Directors and serves as the main or escalation BMS point of contact for external alliance counterpart(s), including external partner senior leadership
• Determines and executes relationship management strategy while overseeing, approving, and developing a thorough understanding and monitoring of contracts and work/research plans within their TA-aligned pillar
• Oversees vendor commitments and timelines across the portfolio, ensuring fulfillment of vendor obligations to BMS
• Leads BMS’s vendor OM functions to embed industry-leading processes and principles that define how BMS interacts with and manages its vendor partnerships across all GDO categories include FSP
• Leads BMS’s vendor OM functions to ensure that all vendor contractual obligations (MSAs, SOWs, Quality Agreements), SOP’s, business practices and guidelines are adhered to in the execution of BMS’s OM function
• Collaborates within BMS’s matrix structure to establish efficient and effective contracting processes to ensure all vendor contracts are in place to ensure critical clinical trial milestones are met
• Responsible for resource planning and management to ensure adequate resources are available to manage the book of work and proactive resource planning to ensure future resourcing is in line with forecasted business needs
• Setting goals and objectives for the OM function that are aligned with the business objectives of the organization and establishing appropriate metrics, KPIs and scorecards to measure achievement of those goals and objectives
• Researches & brings forward industry trends and innovation in the field of OM and where beneficial to the BMS organization, introducing these innovations within the OM group
• Partners with Global Procurement and other BMS functions to select and onboard new vendors

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

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

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 collaborati