Associate Director, Breyanzi Strategic Portfolio Lead

About the role

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking an Associate Director, Breyanzi Strategic Portfolio Lead to join the Cell Therapy Development and Operations (CTDO) organization within the Chief of Staff office. This role plays a critical role in enabling strategic alignment, portfolio visibility, and disciplined execution of the Breyanzi Global Operations (GO) Team Book of Work.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic portfolio coordination for the Breyanzi GO Team, ensuring the brand Book of Work, governance cadence, milestone roadmap, business case pipeline, and planning materials are aligned to brand strategy, CTDO priorities, and expected stage gate timing.
• Maintain the product Book of Work with clear alignment to Breyanzi brand strategy, strategic priorities, and CTDO objectives.
• Maintain the Breyanzi Book of Work milestone roadmap, providing clear line of sight to major project milestones, decision points, value realization, and expected stage gate timing.
• Maintain the five-year glide path for Breyanzi brand goals, ensuring clear visibility to project impacts, portfolio assumptions, and progress against long-range brand objectives.
• Report Book of Work status, key updates, risks, and decision needs to GO Team leadership and other key stakeholders to support portfolio visibility and timely decision-making.
• Partner with project management leads to ensure business case information, project status updates, milestones, and related portfolio data are accurate, complete, and available in the portfolio management system.
• Support product strategy review planning and presentation development, including preparation of portfolio views, brand strategy inputs, key risks, decisions, and milestone updates.
• Coordinate and facilitate workshops and ad hoc meetings required to advance Breyanzi brand strategy, portfolio prioritization, planning, and governance outcomes.
• Maintain the GO Team risk, action, and decision log to ensure clear ownership, timely follow-up, and appropriate escalation of items that may impact brand priorities or portfolio delivery.
• Support development of product strategy review documents, ensuring materials are accurate, strategically aligned, and ready for leadership review.
• Support the annual portfolio planning process, ensuring the Book of Work is aligned to CTDO and Breyanzi brand strategy with clear prioritization of portfolio activities and investment needs.
• Support GO Team budget planning, functional planning, and business continuity management planning by connecting portfolio priorities, project assumptions, and brand objectives to planning inputs.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering, Pharmacy, science or technical discipline, advanced degree preferred.
• PMP certification highly desirable.
• Understanding of cGMPs and regulatory CMC.
• A minimum of 10 years in BioPharma operational or development discipline, including demonstrated experience managing complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience in portfolio management, including the ability to organize, prioritize, and communicate a portfolio of work across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in project/program management of complex projects involving cross-functional, multi-site, international teams.
• Experience with manufacturing sites and staff.
• 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&D).
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills and have the ability to deal effectively with all levels of management.
• Strong analytical skills, well organized and capable of managing multiple projects with respect to priorities.
• Ability to exercise discretion, discernment and to be comfortable to operate when erroneous decisions will have serious impact on the overall success of operations.
• Ability to interact internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of potentially difficult and sensitive matters to influence policy making bodies both internally and externally.
• Familiarity with financial principles, core business concepts, and business and operations management. Ability to develop business analysis and reporting.

Benefits

Our benefits include health coverage, wellbeing support, financial well-being and protection, work-life benefits, and more. For more details, visit careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.