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 rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.
Position Summary
The Junior Contract Facilitator at Bristol Myers Squibb plays a crucial role in managing the entire contract lifecycle, ensuring timely and compliant facilitation of contracts. This position requires effective coordination with various internal stakeholders and maintaining a high level of customer support. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of pharma contracting and compliance, strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Contract Lifecycle Management: Manage and efficiently move contracts through the contract lifecycle: intake, template selection, drafting, negotiation, execution, and storage.
- Complex Contract Facilitation: Confidently facilitate, including negotiating, complex contract types in collaboration with internal stakeholders and CLS as required by BMS SOPs and escalation protocols.
- Coordination: Coordinate with functions and stakeholders across BMS to ensure timely, compliant, and effective facilitation of contracts.
- Pre-Contracting Awareness: Maintain awareness of pre-contracting steps, including underlying BMS policies and procedures related to the contracts and the contracted activities within scope.
- Customer Support: Provide white-glove customer support to business requesters.
- Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong relationships across the matrix environment, building alignment and strong communication with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Performance Tracking: Track and report SLA, KPIs, and other team performance metrics.
- Compliance Adherence: Understand and follow BMS Standard Operating Procedures and escalation protocols.
- Risk Management: Identify and analyze relevant risk drivers and effective strategies to mitigate potential negative impacts.
- Continuous Learning: Maintain active knowledge of contracting policy, news, and events.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with legal and contracting within the pharma/biotech/CRO industry preferred.
- Pharma Contracting Expertise: Working knowledge of pharma contracting, compliance, and policies relevant to the services within the role's remit.
- Teamwork: Demonstrated ability to work well in a team.
- Communication Skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to convey information effectively and maintain a strong customer focus.
- Adaptability: Demonstrates a high level of adaptability in dealing with ambiguous and complex work environments, balancing multiple demands professionally.
- Process Mindset: Strong process-oriented mindset.
- Technology Proficiency: Working knowledge of Contract Lifecycle Management technology to automate and streamline processes is preferred. Familiarity with Icertis is ideal.
- Contract Knowledge: Working knowledge of contract terms and conditions.
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree required; JD, paralegal certification, or other relevant formal legal contracts experience preferred.
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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 [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/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.
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What We Do
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome.
Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients.
Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.
