Manager, Cell Therapy Launch Project Coordinator, Launch & Lifecycle Management Excellence

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

The Project Coordinator is part of the Cell Therapy Launch and Lifecycle Management Excellence Team, which enables operational and system readiness by coordinating commercial and clinical cell therapy launches to expand patient access and advance the BMS pipeline. This position provides project coordination and operational support across launch and lifecycle initiatives, including meeting coordination, documentation management, SmartLaunch updates, action tracking, reporting, and knowledge management. The role helps ensure launch information is accurate, current, and accessible to support the cross-functional launch team in timely launch readiness, risk management, and decision-making.

 

The position reports to the Senior Director, Cell Therapy Launch and Lifecycle Management and will not have direct reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate recurring launch governance meetings, execution meetings, portfolio reviews, and team operating forums.

• Prepare meeting agendas, collect and organize pre-read materials, and distribute meeting communications.

• Provide administrative and operational support to the Launch and Lifecycle Management Excellence team including the documentation and distribution of meeting minutes, decisions, risks, issues, and action items.

• Support maintenance of launch plans, milestones, deliverables, and status information in SmartLaunch.

• Review SmartLaunch records and supporting trackers for completeness, consistency, timeliness, and data quality; identify gaps and escalate issues as appropriate.

• Support in the generation of routine portfolio reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentation materials to support operational and leadership visibility.

• Maintain launch documentation repositories, team calendars, SharePoint sites, training, and operational metrics.

• Coordinate document reviews, approvals, version control, publication, archival, and retrieval activities in accordance with established procedures.

• Support onboarding, training coordination, user adoption, and knowledge management for launch processes, tools, and team ways of working.

• Assist with inspection-readiness and documentation-retrieval activities as requested.

• Support implementation and adoption of approved process improvements, tools, templates, and standardized ways of working.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, life sciences, project management, operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

• 2-5 years of experience in project coordination, business operations, project management support, supply chain, quality, or a related function.

• Experience supporting cross-functional teams and managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Excellent organization, written and verbal communication, meeting documentation, and relationship-building skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.

• Experience with project management, reporting, portfolio management, or workflow systems; SmartLaunch and OnePlan Portfolio Management experience is a plus.

• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another regulated industry preferred.

• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently within established direction.

• Project management training or certification is a plus.

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The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.

Benefits:

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

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.

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