Director, CTDO Strategic Program Delivery

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Title: Director, CTDO Strategic Program Delivery

Location: Summit, NJ or Princeton, NJ

At Bristol Myers Squibb we are reimagining the future of cell therapy. With our bold ambition, backed by a best-in-the-industry team and long-term commitment, we are leading the way to unlock the full promise of cell therapy as we strive to put more patients on the path to a cure. If you are ready to challenge yourself, accelerate your career, and give new hope to patients, there’s no better place than here at BMS with our Cell Therapy team.

The Director, CTDO Strategic Program Delivery leads the management of CTDO strategic portfolio and the initiation to execution of critical programs/projects as applicable. Lead and direct complex, cross-functional, multi-site teams and workstreams, ensuring comprehensive planning and optimal execution of CTDO strategic portfolio. Ensure interactions and timely collaboration with Cell Therapy Development & Operations ecosystem, functional Project Management Offices (PMOs), key stakeholders and supporting functions. Proactively identify and facilitate risks, mitigations, resolution and escalation of issues, tracking and communicating status to stakeholder including leadership team. Leading program/projects and teams with passion, innovation, speed and accountability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall delivery and performance of CTDO strategic portfolio, including critical sponsor updates, milestone execution, budgetary & resource tracking and risk escalations
• Act as program leader as needed for new strategic programs. Work with sponsors to define scope, develop teams, drive detailed plans, identify critical path and timing while meeting strategic intent and achieving key milestones.
• Independently brainstorm and analyze solutions to problems and develop initial hypotheses, frameworks, and methodologies. 
• Ensure problem solving and decision making addressing major risks and issues by identifying, documenting, resolving, communicating, or escalating to senior leadership when appropriate. When appropriate, directly support individual critical strategic program to identify issues, problem solve and move forward.
• Secure endorsements with complex stakeholder landscape as necessary. Proactively drive scenario analyses to manage potential impact on plans, timelines and recommend strategic direction to management.
• Quickly engaging with various business intelligence or business development teams, provide support and perspective on impact to business growth and performance.
• Be adaptive to ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Be able to influence VP level key stakeholders, develop project communications strategy, approach and plan. Foster diverse/inclusive high performance teams and maintain strong relationships with operational and functional leadership.
• Drive consistency in project management tools and templates in line with PMO best practices.
• Plan/Execute change management strategy and communication plan.

Qualifications & Experience:

• B.S. in Engineering, Pharmacy, science or technical discipline, advanced degree preferred.
• A minimum of 8-10 years in BioPharma operational or development discipline, including demonstrated experience leading large projects or products
• Management Consulting experience highly desirable.
• Understanding of cGMPs and regulatory CMC.
• Experience in project/program management of complex projects involving cross-functional, multi-site, international teams Proficiency with project management and Microsoft tools, e.g. Project, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• Ability to achieve results and exercise influence across a global matrix organization (e.g., operations, manufacturing technology, quality, supply chain, finance, R