Global Purchasing Senior Specialist

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 Global Purchasing Senior Specialist plays a crucial role in coordinating and leading financial and vendor management in a multi-country environment for HR.

• Build and Maintain Supplier Governance with assigned HR function and/or geographic region.

• Provide continuous improvement within Global Vendor Management Processes to enhance stakeholder’s experience and align business strategy/requirements.

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise with BMS Policy and Procedures for purchasing and payment processing.

• Collaborative with internal and external parties to problem solve with an understanding of end-to-end processes and knowledge of impacts to decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively executing and coordinating the "Purchase to pay" process for People Organization, working closely with regional teams and SMEs across HR and BMS.

• Executing full life cycle of Purchase Orders management in SAP/ARIBA including creation, maintenance, on-time payments, and closure.

• Manage the monitoring and tracking invoices to ensure timely payment.

• Conducting financial tracking, monitoring, and reporting of Purchase Orders against actual budgeted amounts.

• Preparing and communicating monthly financial variance reports

• Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams, both internal and external to ensure invoices are validated and approved before releasing payment.

• Building relationships with cross-functional teams such as Accounts Payable, Global Payments, Finance, Procurement, and functional support teams.

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise regarding Procurement and Finance policies and procedures, utilizing SAP, ARIBA, and Icertis.

• Work with HR and Finance to manage the harmonization of various acquired companies. Ensuring that benefits and compensation have been correctly aligned to allow for the smooth day to day running of the business without any issues.

• Provide insight and guidance to HR on the BMS ways of working addressing issues such as:

  • Managing procurement processes

  • Overseeing vendor creation

  • Contract management

  • Facilitating the I2P process

  • Handling non-BMS system payments through heritage payment systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree

• Experience with financial/budget

• Experience in purchase order/vendor payment Processing utilizing SAP / Ariba

• Ability to work in a matrix team with strong exceptional organizational skills.

• Advanced level data analysis, excel and complex reporting skills.

• Excellent communication skills in order to work across regional remote teams and markets.

• Ability to identify, analyze and solve problems, with limited guidance.

• Identify and drive areas for continuous improvement.

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Compensation Overview:

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.

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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

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