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Position Summary

The GPS (Global Product Development and Supply) Analytics team is an organization within the BMS Business Insights and Technology (BI&T) Function focused on partnering with the BMS GPS group to answer key business questions that will drive important decisions using data and advanced analytics. These questions span a broad range of areas from Global Supply Chain, through Manufacturing Operations, Quality and Business Strategy.

The Sr Manager, Demand Forecasting & Supply Chain Analytics is an individual contributor position and will play a leading role in establishing analytics capabilities for the Supply Chain organization, GPS and the broader BI&T organization. This person will enable the Supply Chain organization to make informed business decisions using all phases of the analytical life cycle (Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive).

This is an ideal role for someone looking to achieve two outcomes in their next career move:

further strengthen and enhance their analytical skills and apply them to solving major challenges in biopharmaceutical supply chain. strengthen their biopharmaceutical business acumen by managing a key BMS business process, end-to-end demand planning.

We are seeking exceptional candidates for this unique opportunity. The right person will need to be comfortable diving in deep on analytics while also facilitating a critical qualitative business process.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting GSC Priority Business Decisions

• Proactively develops and maintains an understanding of GSC priorities, critical issues, and value levers, in close collaboration with GSC teams.

• Collaborates directly with stakeholders to develop the team's analytical book of work that addresses priorities.

• Leads and delivers on multiple analytics projects, from charter to completion.

• Meets or exceeds agreed upon analytics deliverables and timing.

• Communicates complex analysis in a manner appropriate for facilitating GSC decisions.

• Supports a culture of analytics and fact-based decision making within GSC, in partnership with stakeholders.

Building and Enhancing Analytics Capabilities

• Works closely with the rest of our team to understand our existing tools and processes and avoids building new tools or data models when existing solutions already exist.

• Collaborates with subject matter experts from across the business to design, establish and maintain foundational data pipelines, models and business facing reports and dashboards.

• Designs, develops, and implements a broad array of analytics that solve complex problems in a computationally efficient and statistically valid manner.

• Makes complex analytical solutions simple enough for GSC teams to understand and use and drives uptake to engrain analytics solutions into standard business processes.

• Proactively identifies opportunities to further apply automation, analytics and data solutions and works with stakeholders and the team to prioritize projects with the biggest potential benefit to the business.

• Builds partnerships and manages the process for deploying predictive and prescriptive models to operations.

• Manages planned and ad hoc analytics requests, ensuring consistent quality and timeliness in delivery to business stakeholders.

• Supports best practice adoption across the team, applying appropriate levels of technical capability, standardization, automation, and functional area expertise.

• Leads standardization of analytics and process methodologies within GPS Analytics, to ensure a scalable analytics stack.

• Proactively make recommendations to GPS Analytics leadership on new technology or technical development processes.

Managing the Demand Planning Business Process

• Manages the sales unit plan for commercial, Tenders, Clinical Trials, Free goods and samples using data analysis, advanced statistical methodologies, and ML across all products.

• Work with markets to ensure that the appropriate internal and external market data and intelligence are integrated into the final demand plan. Incorporate impacts of future events based on objective, data-driven insights.

• Lead Demand Consensus Meetings with Product Managers, Finance, Market Contacts and BI&T in-market teams. Provide minutes to cross-functional team to include demand plan changes, drivers of change, and future R&Os.

• Optimize demand plan to appropriately manage risk based on market / supply chain dynamics.

• Support the development of global demand consolidation and drive improvements in the demand forecasting process.

• Support launch readiness status for new products and line extensions by providing sales forecast, distribution channel, and Market strategies.

• Support Market S&OP Meeting as part of the S&OP process through a regular update on Market's demand changes and trends.

• Document the Gaps between Finance and Forecast and share them with Market Management and Product Managers through Demand Consensus Meeting minutes.

• Monitor forecast KPIs: Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, CoV and Volatility and investigates significant deviations from Target and establish plans for improvement.

• Set and maintain relevant master data and Models in our internal systems related to forecasting according to Product Life Cycle stage and the Market expectations.

• Develops strong relationships and communication processes within the organization including In-market BI&T, Finance, Marketing and Global Supply Chain.

Strengthening Key Partnerships

• Collaborates closely with business stakeholders and enabling functions to understand and execute analytics projects to achieve GSC objectives.

• Works proactively with BI&T Data Enablement to ensure data likely to be needed for future analytics is available in the Enterprise Data Lake (EDL)

• Effectively partners and collaborates with other analytics team members to learn best practices and technologies and support delivering a consistent analytics engagement model to stakeholders.

• Proactively identifies existing capabilities from across the GPS analytics ecosystem that can address GSC needs with minimal additional development.

• Proactively shares existing analytical tools with GSC stakeholders.

• Mentors and coaches junior team members.

Requirements

• Customer oriented mindset.

• Agile problem solver with a strong desire to find ways to get the job done seeking Continuous Improvement (CI).

• You should enjoy learning new things.

• Excellent collaborative skills to ensure effective ability to work in a highly matrixed organization.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Skilled at communicating analytics outputs to a wide range of audiences.

• Ability to build effective relationships with analytics colleagues, GSC stakeholders and other BMS teams.

• University degree in analytical, engineering, operations research or scientific disciplines.

• 3+ more years of professional experience working in a data heavy or analytics role, including significant direct development experience with Bachelor's degree required. MS, PhD preferred. Less years of experience will be considered for PhD degree holders

• Significant hands-on experience with the following elements of our technology stack is required: advanced SQL; Python or R implemented at production scale.

• Experience building demand forecasting models is highly desired.

• Experience working in a demand planning role is a significant plus.

• Hands-on experience with the following elements of our technology stack is desired: Domino, AWS, GitHub, dbt, Tableau.

• Significant hands-on experience with code version control a significant plus.

• Experience with cloud-based ELT pipelines a significant plus.

• Experience using agile methodology and associated tools such as JIRA a plus.

• Experience building user-centric visualizations and dashboards a significant plus (preference for Tableau).

• Experience building and deploying predictive models (MLOps) a significant plus.

• Experience building simulation and optimization models a significant plus.

• Experience building AI models a plus.

• Experience with major GPS applications (including SAP, Oracle, LIMS, Infinity, MES) a plus.

• Biopharma experience a plus.

• Experience with biotech product development, manufacturing operations, supply chain, and quality controls a plus.

The starting compensation for this job in Seattle is a range from $147,080-$178,200 , plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).

The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed.

Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year's holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Req Number: R1589873

Updated: 2025-03-13 02:20:23.274 UTC

Location: Princeton Pike-NJ

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