Senior Manager, Project Controls - Global Engineering and Project Delivery

About the role

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. The Senior Manager, Project Controls leads cost management, risk management, and governance functions across a portfolio of enterprise pharmaceutical capital projects — including facility construction, process equipment installation, technology transfer, and manufacturing suite build-outs/retrofits. This role owns budget integrity, forecasting accuracy, risk visibility, and governance compliance across the capital portfolio, while maintaining oversight of project schedules (owned and maintained by project scheduling/PM staff) to ensure cost, risk, and schedule data remain aligned and integrated. The Senior Manager partners with Project Delivery, Engineering, Quality, Validation, EHS, Procurement, and Finance to drive disciplined decision-making and ensure projects are delivered within approved budgets and in full compliance with cGMP, regulatory, and internal governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise-level capital portfolio reporting and analytics to support data-driven capital allocation decisions.
• Oversee validation and consolidation of multi-year CapEx financial plans and forecasts.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance of capital and OPEX financial reporting including budgets, forecasts, accruals, and close-out activities
• Ensure Portfolio Governance & Financial Oversight
• Serve as the governance gatekeeper for capital project financials — ensuring spend approvals, forecast updates, and contingency usage follow established controls
• Lead a team of project controls professionals (cost engineers, risk analysts, controls analysts) supporting capital projects in a regulated manufacturing environment
• Own cost baselines, forecasting, and earned value management (EVM) across capital projects, tracking against approved CapEx budgets and business case commitments