Director, Procurement Orchestration

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

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Key Responsibilities:

Nexus Buying Channel Strategy & Optimization

• Own the end-to-end buying channel strategy within Nexus, including guided buying, self-service, catalogs, managed services, and request based workflows.
• Define channel intent, demand entry criteria, and routing logic to ensure Nexus directs requests to the right buying path at the right time.
• Optimize buying channels to reduce friction, improve cycle time, and increase first time right outcomes.
• Establish adoption, effectiveness, and experience metrics to measure Nexus channel performance and inform continuous improvement.
• Ensure buying channels reinforce Nexus principles of simplicity, transparency, and orchestration.

Nexus Service Transformation & Design

• Lead the transformation roadmap for Nexus intake and orchestration services, translating strategy into scalable, service based offerings.
• Design and evolve procurement services that enable Nexus to operate as a cohesive orchestration layer across categories, regions, and fulfillment models.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, or eliminate non value added steps across the Nexus intake and buying experience.
• Partner with the Global Process Owner to shape the Nexus future state and ensure alignment between service design, process standards, and digital enablement.

Operating Model & Orchestration Enablement

• Define service ownership models, interaction points, and handoffs that enable Nexus to function as an integrated ecosystem rather than disconnected processes.
• Support the evolution of global operating models to ensure consistent Nexus service delivery across regions.
• Partner with Category, Operations, Finance, Legal, and IT teams to embed Nexus into day to day ways of working.

Performance, Insights & Change

• Establish KPIs and dashboards to measure Nexus service performance, buying channel health, and user experience.
• Use insights to drive prioritization, continuous improvement, and investment decisions across the Nexus roadmap.
• Lead change management and stakeholder engagement to accelerate adoption of Nexus buying channels and services.
• Act as a visible advocate for Nexus, reinforcing the shift to an orchestrated, user centric procurement model.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, shared services, operations, or digital/process transformation
• Proven experience designing and optimizing intake models, buying channels, or service based operating models
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Experience operating in complex, global, matrixed environments

Preferred

• Master’s degree or MBA
• Experience with guided buying, intake management, or orchestration platforms
• Background in service design, digital procurement, or operating model transformation

Experience in regulated or highly complex industries

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 a supportive culture, promoting global participation 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

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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.

Supporting People with Disabilities

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