Senior Manager, Global Neuroscience Patient Advocacy

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Position Summary

The Sr. Manager, Global Patient Advocacy, Neuroscience is responsible for supporting the Neuroscience Advocacy team and our patient focused mission. This role requires managing a broad set of stakeholders, both internally and externally, in the planning and execution of various programs. The incumbent, reporting to the Senior Director, Global Patient Advocacy Neuroscience, must possess excellent communication skills, be a team player, and show great attention to detail, ensuring that business objectives are met with the right sense of urgency.

Desired Candidate Characteristics:

• The ideal candidate for this position will support all aspects of Patient Advocacy and provide project coordination to drive key initiatives forward in alignment with project sponsors and key stakeholders across BMS. The individual will support all processes related to external events, programs, and medical conferences.

Demonstrated leadership capability

• Excellent communication skills 
• Ability to take direction and work independently
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with attention to detail

Key Responsibilities

• Execute on assigned projects supporting the patient advocacy team

• Coordinate field supported patient advocacy events
• Patient and medical congress management
• Support BMS led advocacy events support (summits, advisory boards, health equity events)
• Support team tracking, reporting, and communications that help showcase the team’s collective work and impact on the community
• Support Senior Director and ensure team project deliverables are managed in alignment with BMS Project Management best practices across their assigned projects.
• Periodically evaluate performance and develop action plans to ensure achievement of performance goals.
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive assigned project’s momentum and progress. Engage and energize the project teams.
• Plan and engage necessary resources across the enterprise to ensure successful completion of assigned projects.
• Encourage innovation across projects and organize forums for cross-sharing of ideas and execution.
• Represent BMS at various external advocacy meetings, such as medical conferences, educational symposia and share key learnings from those meetings internally
• Collaborate with US and WW commercial and medical affairs, clinical operations, corporate communications, market access and other cross functional teams on patient-focused initiatives
• Works closely with the Strategy and Business Operations team on financial monitoring of the Psychiatry Advocacy team and provides systematic updates where necessary (i.e. COMPASS)

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry and/or patient advocacy.
• Demonstrated responsiveness, attention to detail, and follow-through coupled with ability to prioritize/multi-task effectively.
• Working knowledge and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, and related regulatory, commercialization and compliance requirements.
• Leads by example, displaying integrity, collaboration, accessibility, adaptability, sound judgment/decision making, and an entrepreneurial, solutions-oriented attitude.
• Outstanding organizational skills; ability to manage concurrent projects within tight deadlines while maintaining excellent service to internal and external customers
• Tech-savvy and comfortable adopting new technologies early to optimize workflow and project outcomes
• Skilled in stakeholder management and collaborative decision making an