Program Manager, Enterprise Strategy

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Project & Program Management
- Support end-to-end coordination of enterprise strategy projects, including workplan development, milestone tracking, risk management, and status reporting.
- Maintain project management tools, dashboards, and trackers to ensure on-time delivery of key deliverables.
- Facilitate project agenda preparation, note-taking, and action item follow-up.
- Proactively identify and escalate project risks, dependencies, or blockers to senior stakeholders.
- Provide team-wide, cross-forum support, including data compilation, project tracking, stakeholder interface support, and staff meeting coordination.
- Share key project updates and actions with insights and recommendations for project discussions.

Strategic Analysis & Research
- Conduct secondary research and competitive landscape analyses to support strategic decision-making.
- Synthesize data from internal and external sources into concise, insight-driven summaries and reports.
- Assist in benchmarking organizational practices against industry peers and best-in-class standards.
- Support development of business cases, opportunity assessments, and strategic frameworks.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
- Prepare executive-ready PowerPoint presentations, briefing documents, and materials for leadership reviews and steering committees.
- Coordinate cross-functional stakeholder meetings, workshops, and working sessions to ensure alignment and follow-through.
- Serve as a point of contact between strategy team leads and project stakeholders across functions and geographies.
- Draft clear, professional communications (emails, memos, summaries) on behalf of senior leaders.

Process Improvement & Operations
- Identify opportunities to streamline team workflows, project templates, and knowledge management practices.
- Contribute to internal playbooks, frameworks, and process documentation.
- Support organizational change management tied to strategic initiatives.
- Assist in preparation of quarterly business reviews, strategy offsites, and planning cycles.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with Finance, Commercial, R&D, Operations, and Corporate Functions to coordinate integrated strategy workstreams.
- Build productive relationships with subject matter experts and functional leads.

Tools, Processes & Operational Excellence
- Oversee selection, implementation, and governance of CI platforms, databases, and intelligence-sharing tools for compliant knowledge management.
- Establish standardized methodologies, frameworks, and processes for intelligence collection, synthesis, and dissemination.
- Ensure primary research complies with BMS CI ethical standards, PhRMA guidelines, and IP protection policies (partnering with the CI Operations Director).
- Ensure competitive intelligence activities adhere to legal, ethical, and compliance standards.

Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (preferred: Business Administration, Life Sciences, Public Health, Economics, or related).
- 5+ years relevant experience in project coordination, management consulting, corporate strategy, or related.
- Experience working with senior leadership and preparing executive-level materials.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to tailor messaging to different audiences.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams) and project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Asana, or equivalent).
- Working knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry (preferred).