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Position: Senior Director, Workforce Operations & Finance Partnership

Location: Tampa

Position Summary

As the Senior Director, Workforce Operations & Finance Partnership within People Services, you will serve as the primary HR strategic partner to Finance, ensuring seamless connectivity between People Services operations and enterprise financial systems. You will lead the design and execution of end-to-end HR operational processes that have downstream implications in our financial systems and processes — from workforce planning through Procure-to-Pay — ensuring that all people-related costs are accurately captured, automated, and reflected in financial systems with full transparency.

In this role, you will act as the bridge between HR and Finance, translating People Services data and strategy into actionable financial intelligence — not as a Finance function, but as the HR function that ensures Finance has the information, processes, and integrations it needs to operate effectively. You will build the systems, rhythms, and partnerships that eliminate manual handoffs, close process gaps, and ensure the total cost of the workforce is managed with rigor and precision from within HR.

At the core of your mandate is elevating financial clarity and operational rigor—driving spend transparency, automation, analytics, and working capital discipline—so that People Services operates with the precision, accountability, and insight of a best-in-class enterprise function.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Management & Governance

• Partner with the People Services Leader and functional heads to serve as the People Services liaison to Corporate FP&A, ensuring HR-driven workforce cost data is accurately reflected in enterprise budgets and forecasts.

• Partner with Finance to translate workforce strategy and operational HR data into forward-looking cost intelligence, supporting scenario planning and investment prioritization from an HR operational lens, and decision support that informs enterprise budget and forecast planning.

• Partner with Finance to develop ROI frameworks for HR initiatives, providing the operational data and process knowledge Finance needs to assess the value of HR investments in automation, technology, and productivity programs, including automation, system implementations, and productivity programs, ensuring investments deliver measurable financial and operational value.

• Leverage workforce and operational data to connect people metrics with financial outcomes, enabling data-driven decisions that improve cost efficiency, performance, and overall business results.

Workforce Planning Operating Model

• Lead cross-functional coordination across HR, Finance, and HRIT to ensure disciplined planning cycles, clear accountability, and audit-ready workforce governance.

• Own and evolve the global HR workforce planning operating model, establishing standardized people-data assumptions, roles, and controls that ensure Finance receives reliable, consistent, and audit-ready workforce intelligence.

• Serve as the HR steward of workforce data integrity, ensuring seamless alignment between HR systems and financial platforms so that people costs flow accurately and automatically into financial reporting.

Procure-to-Pay Financial Governance & Performance

• Within the People Services function, Lead the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay process design and execution within People Services, ensuring that HR-related spend flows through financial systems accurately, compliantly, and with minimal manual intervention while ensuring accurate accruals, payment discipline, and working capital optimization.

• Drive visibility into people-related spend by building analytics capabilities within HR that equip Finance and business leaders with timely, accurate cost insights — enabling smarter workforce investment decisions, and strategic financial partnership with Procurement and business leaders.

• Champion process automation and standardization across HR operational workflows, eliminating manual handoffs between HR and Finance and creating scalable, integrated processes that reduce cycle times and improve financial accuracy, and building scalable, audit-ready procurement support capabilities.

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.

Tampa - FL - US: $207,150 - $251,011

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 in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.

• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

​Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)

• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the 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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