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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 Purpose
The EMEA Benefits Operations Senior Manager plays a pivotal role in overseeing and managing the delivery of a diverse range of benefits across the EMEA region.
This position is essential for providing leadership in benefit operations with their team, instilling a continuous improvement mindset, and having an excellent project management skillset.
The role will also have a focus on data-driven analytics, leveraging data insights and metrics to identify opportunities for process streamlining and automation.
This position requires fostering effective stakeholder management and communication skills to build relationships with cross-functional teams both regionally and globally, ensuring excellent service for our EMEA customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide subject matter expertise to the team by providing clear prioritization, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and monitoring outcomes.
- Focus on data metrics to ensure the team delivers on service level agreements and analyze trends that can support opportunities for automation.
- Lead and collaborate on projects to ensure successful outcomes for the region, including open enrollments and country, regional, and global initiatives.
- Proactivity looks for opportunities for process improvements and automation in our benefit delivery to our customers.
- Accountable for robust compliance controls in the region’s benefit processes that will support audits and compliance requests.
- Collaborate with the Benefit Centre of Expertise and Service Delivery Management on operationalizing benefit offerings in the region to reduce manual actions and streamlining processes.
- Oversee regional escalations, ensuring stakeholders are kept informed of issues and incidents, and support their Senior Specialist in the resolution.
- Manage the region’s knowledge documents to ensure the team is updating documentation and providing further insight on benefit processes.
- Establish and uphold high-quality standards in benefit operations to ensure exceptional service for our EMEA customers
Required Skills
- Benefit expertise within health, welfare, and retirement programs
- Leadership of a regional team
- Collaboration and influence with multiple stakeholders regionally and globally
- Project Management
- Data-Driven & Analytical Skills
- Vendor Management
- Customer-focused
- Communication and presentation skills in simplifying complex benefit topics
Ideal Candidates Would Also Have
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Experience working with: Workday, ServiceNow and Benefits Enrollment Platform (Mercer Darwin or other)
- Language Requirement – English (other language is a plus)
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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.
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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.
