Associate Director, Drug Development Innovation Strategy Implementation Lead

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Our BMS pipeline is a core catalyst for achieving sustained growth through 2030 and will benefit millions of patients with cancer and other serious diseases.  To deliver this promise, we require an R&D operating model that is efficient, resilient, and flexible in the face of a rapidly evolving external and internal landscape.  Our R&D Strategy Implementation & Operational Excellence team is comprised of industry and strategic change execution experts who will navigate and guide the R&D organization through our journey and transformation.  We provide members of our team the opportunity to work on high priority, challenging, and personally fulfilling strategic initiatives.

Position Summary

Support the development and execution of Drug Development’s (DD) Innovation strategy in partnership with DD Leaders, Process Council, and Business Insights & Technology (BIT) partners.  This role will support our DD business in translating business needs into an overall set of priority imperatives and executing initiatives to deliver meaningful cycle time, quality, and cost benefits.  The role will require experience with Innovation, emerging technologies, product development / roadmaps, transformational / change leadership, and executive facilitation.  Our team works across a variety of key partners in a highly matrixed organization and, therefore, must excel in cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, an influencing without authority.

Key Responsibilities

Innovation Initiative Strategy Execution: Drives the lifecycle of an innovation project which includes scoping, goal setting, solution designing, implementation, full realization, and close-out for the most impactful cross-functional initiatives.  Project chartering, team mobilization, project planning, risk/issue management, change planning, and communications are all part of the day-to-day responsibilities.

Innovation Program Governance and Portfolio Management: Will provide support to the Innovation Program Sponsor and Innovation Strategy Implementation Lead in governance committee and portfolio management operations.  This may entail agenda setting, preparations, facilitation, and close-out of governance meetings.  This also entails providing the necessary project details and presentations to support portfolio and project-level reviews.

Innovation Adoption: Manage work streams or tactics within our overarching Innovation Adoption strategy to elevate the DD org’s overall understanding, receptivity, and adoption of new and innovative ways of working.  These are broader scale change and learning tactics above the learning tactics developed for specific projects.

Innovation Strategy Formulation: Will support the Innovation Program Sponsor and Innovation Strategy Implementation Lead in the development of an overarching Innovation strategy.  Specific assignments/tasks may include synthesizing business leader perspectives and translating into key requirements or imperatives, aligning priorities across functions and stakeholder groups, establishing measurable goal/outcome statements for our priorities, and partnering with our BIT and DD SMEs colleagues to develop solution blueprints and business cases endorsed by DD leaders.

Innovation External Partnerships: In coordination with DD and enabling function partners (BIT, BD, Procurement), may participate in external scans/sourcing for external innovation and partnerships to advance our business imperatives (as needed).

Qualifications & Experience

BS/BA Degree in Business Management or related field required; advanced degree in related discipline preferred (e.g., Degree in Life Sciences (MBA, M