Associate Director, Workday Business Partner

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Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Position Summary: As a functional expert in Workday Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Benefits, and Reporting, you will leverage your extensive knowledge to guide the People Services team towards a more customer-centric approach to people-related transactions and processes. You will evaluate when Workday-delivered processes may not be the most intuitive customer solution and identify complementary solutions such as ServiceNow or a blend of both to achieve the highest degree of customer centricity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and provide strategic direction for Workday Core HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Absence, Benefits, Adaptive Planning, Security and Reporting.
• Collaborate with internal (People Services) and external (HRIT, Centers of Excellence, etc.) stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, driving the planning, development, testing, and implementation of the Workday HCM system.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, leading enhancement design and scoping initiatives.
• Partner with HRIT to develop and articulate comprehensive solution options that incorporate user (People Services, HR, Centers of Excellence) and customer (Employee/Manager) experience, scalability, and best practices.
• Engage with key stakeholders to develop business and functional requirements for HRIT, including test strategy, test scenarios/scripts, and end-to-end testing execution in preparation for user/customer acceptance testing.
• Evaluate existing and new processes against the functional capabilities of current tools, making strategic recommendations and documenting business/functional requirements for HRIT to maximize tool capabilities in a customer-centric manner.
• Lead Customer Focus Groups to test all new processes with a representative sample from each customer persona (R&D, Global Product Supply, Commercialization, and Enabling Functions) to ensure customer acceptance testing drives new processes/services, as opposed to traditional user acceptance testing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor team members, ensuring they understand their roles and responsibilities and fostering a motivated and knowledgeable workforce.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Effective leadership skills to enhance teamwork and promote collaboration.
• 7-10+ years of proven experience in Workday HCM implementations, development, testing, configuration, and deployment.
• Experience working in a global, virtual environment.
• Ability to influence, communicate, and build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Expertise in evaluating existing process flows within Workday, mapping against available functionality, and developing new process flows or implementing new functional capabilities to enhance service delivery and customer-centricity.
• Proficient in creating custom Workday reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to author and present materials ranging from detailed technical specifications to high-level presentations.
• Strong technical acumen, with the ability to act as an interpreter between Subject Matter Experts and HRIT to identify functional capabilities and translate them into technical requirements.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage/prioritize multiple activities.

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.

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.

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