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.
Position Summary Lead the Devens Rewiring transformation, converting Blueprinting outputs into an integrated, multi-year roadmap and driving implementation across Biologics, Cell Therapy, and campus functions. The role connects strategy to execution across end-to-end planning, materials and warehousing, quality and sample-to-release, productivity, operating-model changes, and enabling digital capabilities. The successful candidate is an experienced transformation leader who can simplify complexity, mobilize cross-functional teams, challenge established practices, and deliver sustainable operational and financial results in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the Program
- Own delivery of the Devens Rewiring transformation and its integrated roadmap, milestones, dependencies, resources, and outcomes.
- Translate approved blueprints into sequenced implementation waves while protecting manufacturing, supply, quality, and technology-transfer commitments.
- Maintain clear ownership, decision rights, governance, stage gates, readiness criteria, and scope control.
- Resolve cross-functional barriers and incorporate lessons learned into future deployments.
Integrate Workstreams and Operating Model
- Coordinate planning, materials and warehousing, quality and sample-to-release, productivity, and digital workstreams.
- Manage dependencies across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, MS&T, Digital/IT, Engineering, Finance, HR, and Operational Excellence.
- Align the roadmap with enterprise and network programs to reuse solutions and avoid duplicate investment or benefit claims.
- Build a "One Devens" operating model with simplified processes, handoffs, roles, governance, and decision rights across Biologics and Cell Therapy.
- Ensure new ways of working are practical for frontline teams and improve daily execution.
Deliver Outcomes and Adoption
- Maintain an integrated view of commitments, business cases, investments, milestones, risks, and benefits.
- Partner with Finance and business owners to validate investments, savings, operational outcomes, and benefit realization.
- Establish measures for readiness, adoption, execution progress, and sustained performance.
- Lead the change narrative and partner with HR, Change Management, Communications, and site leaders to build engagement.
- Involve frontline employees and subject-matter experts in solution design and address adoption barriers early.
Provide Governance and Build Capability
- Lead program governance across workstream, campus, and executive levels.
- Provide transparent reporting on progress, decisions, risks, dependencies, resources, investment, and value.
- Maintain a single integrated plan and prepare recommendations for senior governance forums.
- Coach workstream leaders and project teams in disciplined execution and problem solving.
- Transition ownership to business-process owners and codify approaches for use across the broader network.
Qualifications & Experience Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Operations, or a related field.
- Significant experience leading complex transformation, operational excellence, manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, digital, or cross-functional programs in a regulated environment.
- Proven ability to move initiatives from strategy and design through implementation and sustained adoption.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations and end-to-end business processes.
- Demonstrated leadership of large, cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
- Strong program and portfolio management skills, including integrated planning, dependencies, risks, resources, and governance.
- Experience developing business cases and measuring operational and financial outcomes.
- Strong executive communication, influencing, decision-framing, and change-leadership skills.
Preferred
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience with significant leadership responsibility.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
- Experience leading large-scale lean, operational excellence, digital, or process transformation.
- Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile/Scrum, and structured change-management methods.
- MBA or advanced technical or business degree.
- Experience implementing integrated planning, manufacturing, quality, materials, or digital solutions across functions or sites.
Leadership Profile An enterprise minded, execution focused leader who connects process, organization, technology, data, and behavior; creates clarity amid ambiguity; influences without relying on hierarchy; and links simplification and productivity to reliable delivery for patients. Measures of Success
- Blueprinting outcomes are converted into executable plans and delivered on schedule.
- Validated productivity and financial commitments are realized and sustained.
- Redesigned end-to-end processes are adopted, with fewer handoffs, manual steps, duplication, and fragmented practices.
- Clear process ownership and governance are established across the campus.
- Biologics and Cell Therapy use common campus solutions where they create greater value.
- Employees sustain the new ways of working, and transformation capabilities can be reused across the network.
We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Compensation Overview:
Devens - MA - US: $217,570 - $263,649
The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.
Benefits:
Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).
U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.
Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits
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