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Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Director, Enterprise Executive and Business Communications, the Senior Manager of Leadership Communications will deliver strategic internal and external communications for the company's Global Business Operations (GBO) and Digital & IT organizations. This role will provide support to embedded communicators within each function to ensure effective change management and communications strategies, tactics, and content. Additionally, this candidate will provide coordination across the team, overseeing and tracking project timelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner across the team to support the development and execution of strategic internal communications plans for the GBO and Digital & IT organizations, ensuring alignment with overall corporate messaging and objectives.

• Provide guidance and support to embedded communicators within each function, assisting them in developing and implementing change management and communications strategies, tactics, and content.

• Collaborate with leaders across the organization to coordinate and develop engaging and informative functional town halls, ensuring effective communication of key messages and updates to employees.

• Support Executive & Business Communications team in executing external communications for company’s business development, technology and financial efforts.

• Foster strong connections and collaboration within the communications function, ensuring alignment and consistency across different teams and initiatives.

• Ownership of managing the team's budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively and efficiently to support communication initiatives and activities.

• Track and evaluate the effectiveness of internal communications initiatives, using metrics and analytics to assess impact and make data-driven recommendations for improvement.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and best practices in internal communications, change management, and the pharmaceutical industry, leveraging insights to enhance communication strategies and programs.

Key Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in internal communications, change management or a related role.

• Bachelor's degree in Communications or a related field

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling messages for different audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and manage functional town halls or similar large-scale events.

• Familiarity with the pharmaceutical industry and its regulatory environment is preferred.

• Strong strategic thinking and ability to develop and execute comprehensive communications plans.

• Ability to foster collaboration and maintain connections in a matrix work environment.

• Knowledge of industry trends and best practices in internal communications and change management.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making.

• Highly motivated, proactive, and able to work independently as well as part of a team.

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.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

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.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com . Visit careers.bms.com/ (https://careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility) eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Req Number: R1581006

Updated: 2024-05-15 02:20:09.512 UTC

Location: Princeton-NJ

Bristol Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.