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Medical Project Manager

Location: San Diego

Position Overview

The Medical Project Manager will serve as a critical contributor of the medical affairs team responsible for supporting and driving operational excellence and innovation/championing AI for the function. This position focuses on hands-on project management of budget administration, contract coordination, digital platform and AI management, and the execution of events (conferences) and other onsite and virtual meetings. The role is pivotal in facilitating effective cross-functional collaboration and ensuring the seamless implementation of all operational elements.

Key Responsibilities

Medical Excellence & Operations

• Lead planning and facilitation of medical team meetings, ensuring efficient management of both virtual and face-to-face engagements that support scientific and strategic objectives.
• Develop and maintain Medical Affairs dashboards to track team deliverables, progress, and key performance metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making and transparency.
• Oversee new team member onboarding, delivering robust processes and resources to accelerate integration and ensure rapid productivity.
• Establish, update, and manage SharePoint sites and distribution lists for the medical team to maximize collaboration, access, and information security.
• Ensure all stakeholders have timely access to current materials, maintaining organized, user-friendly, and compliant digital platforms across teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders in Medical Affairs, IT, Compliance, and others to identify process improvement opportunities and implement best practices-including using AI to enable our medical team.

Congress Logistics

• Support the execution of congresses logistics, including pre-congress planning, onsite operations, and post-congress follow-ups.
• Support the scheduling, setup, and facilitation of onsite meetings and events.
• Liaise with internal teams, external vendors, and congress organizers to ensure all details are managed efficiently.

Contract & Budget Management

• Oversee contract processes for vendors, venues, and other services, coordinating initiation, tracking, and completion.
• Ensure all contracts align with company policies, compliance requirements, and are processed in a timely manner.
• Develop, manage, and track medical budget
• Partner with finance colleagues to reconcile budgets, process invoices, track spend, and support forecasting as needed

Other Duties as Assigned

• Adapt to changing priorities; take on additional projects and responsibilities as needs evolve.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or project management certification (e.g., PMP) preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant project management experience within pharmaceutical, life sciences, or medical affairs environments.
• Familiarity with event planning, logistics, and operational support highly desirable.
• Strong budget management, contract administration, and vendor coordination skills.
• Proven experience managing SharePoint or similar digital collaboration platforms.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently, with strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities, with flexibility to travel as required for congress support.
• Team-oriented with a high degree of professionalism, integrity, and customer service focus.

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.

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. 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.

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 a supportive culture, promoting global participation 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 an 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.

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 adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

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