Associate Director, Breyanzi Strategic Portfolio Lead

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Job Description

Within the Cell Therapy Development and Operations (CTDO) organization, the Chief of Staff office is the center of strategic portfolio alignment, standard calendar and governance operations, and translation of strategic objectives to project execution. Within the CoS office, the Strategy Deployment and Portfolio Operations team consists of portfolio leaders responsible for organizing, managing, reconciling, and communicating the portfolio of projects and programs aligned to the strategic objectives of CTDO and our commercial product Global Operations teams.

The Associate Director, Breyanzi Strategic Portfolio Lead plays a critical role in enabling strategic alignment, portfolio visibility, and disciplined execution of the Breyanzi Global Operations (GO) Team Book of Work. This role partners closely with the GO Product Lead, GO Team members, functional partners, and CTDO PMO leads to ensure the inline asset portfolio is clearly connected to brand strategy, prioritized outcomes, major milestones, stage gate timing, business cases, and long-range brand goals.

The Associate Director, Breyanzi Strategic Portfolio Lead supports GO Team coordination, facilitation, governance, portfolio planning, and decision readiness for Breyanzi. The role maintains the integrated brand Book of Work, milestone roadmap, risk/action/decision logs, and multi-year glide path for brand goals, ensuring clear line of sight between project impacts, brand priorities, budget planning, functional planning, business continuity management, and product strategy review materials.

The successful candidate will be a strategic, organized, and collaborative leader with the ability to connect brand strategy to portfolio execution, facilitate cross-functional alignment, and support informed decision-making across a complex global matrix organization.

Primary 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.
• Support overall GO Team governance coordination and facilitation, including management of meeting topics, agenda flow, key discussions, decisions, and follow-up actions.
• Review brand-specific project business cases to confirm alignment with Breyanzi brand strategy, prioritization guidance, portfolio assumptions, and stage gate expectations.
• Support milestone review of strategic road map, ensuring cross-functional alignment on priorities, timing, risks, and decision needs, and align on business case readiness, stage gate progression, and portfolio-level implications.
• 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.

Competencies & Experiences

• 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).
• Ability to work independently with high level of accountability.
• 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.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Compensation Overview:

Devens - MA - US: $179,150 - $217,083

Princeton - NJ - US: $162,860 - $197,348

Seattle - WA: $179,150 - $217,083

Summit West - NJ - US: $162,860 - $197,348

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.

• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

​Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)

• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

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On-site Protocol

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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