Senior Specialist, Global Purchasing

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 the People (Human Resource) Organization. This person will support, 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.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

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.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirements
• Minimum education of a bachelor's degree is required.
• Minimum of two (2) to four (4) years of experience in finance, budgeting or in purchasing, with vendor payment processing experience is required.
• Experience with SAP or Ariba is required.
• 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.
• We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.