Job Title: Business Operations Associate Duration: 12 months Location: New Brunswick, NJ, 08648 50% onsite required Work Schedule: Mon-Fri(8am-5pm) Payrate: $50-$54/hr on W2 AI Position Summary: • Driving the full slate of global supply chain, run the business? and change the business? activities in alignment with our client strategic roadmap. • Leading projects and initiatives such as: yearly business calendar processes/deliverables, change management, communications, analytics, performance across the organization and all business pillars (delivery, customer partnership, E2E planning, clinical supply chain, process and digital excellence) • Drive data analytics and visualization strategy by collaborating with business partners to explore, process, and analyze data from diverse sources delivering actionable insights to key stakeholders. • Conduct external benchmarking to ensure operational relevance and identify opportunities for process improvement. Key Responsibilities: • Establish, document, maintain, evolve, and facilitate the Supply Chain standing governance, business processes and best practices. • Facilitate meetings using governance framework, setting of agendas, priorities, and objectives; understand and triage topics for discussion and alignment. Facilitate discussions in a structured manner to achieve quick decisions and robust outcomes. • Drive simplification, standardization, and consistency of the strategic planning processes and related governance across supply chain pillars. • Identify and oversee the required processes and tools to evaluate performance and enable pro-active data-driven risk detection and decision taking. • Lead the development of supply chain pillar metrics and measures that drive the identification of continuous improvement opportunities and ensure healthy business operation. • Drive development of dashboards and ensure consistency across supply chain performance scorecards in collaboration with cross functional business & insights analytic partners. • Coordinate the identification, prioritization and implementation of GSC initiatives to improve and ensure long-term organizational performance and process efficiency. • Plan, manage and lead projects and/or multifunctional teams set to implement continuous improvement initiatives. • Continually assess supply chain business processes with the mindset of continuous improvement as well as internal and external benchmarking. • Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in data analytics and visualization and bring innovative solutions for consideration. • Creative Storytelling: Ability to transform complex ideas into clear, engaging, and visually appealing presentations. Culture & People: • Define, prepare and execute communication plans for supply chain (in collaboration with pillar SBO leads) that include newsletters, townhalls, face-to-face event preparations, and other culture engagements. • Ensure excellent stakeholder management within supply chain as well as partners such as Finance, BI&A, Demand Planning, Human Resources, IT (not exhaustive). • Lead and facilitate community of practice and hybrid/virtual centers of excellence for change and culture initiatives. • Organize cultural and team-building events, activities, and workshops to promote collaboration, inclusivity, and a strong sense of belonging among employees. Change Management: • Develop and implement change management strategies and plans. • Lead execution of change management activities by applying client methodology & tools to support adoption of project related changes. • Drive employee engagement initiatives and programs aimed at fostering a positive work environment and enhancing employee satisfaction and morale. Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree required in supply chain, data analytics, life sciences and/or business administration advanced degree preferred. Strong Project Management capability skills, PMP preferred. • 4+ years of experience in business operations, supply chain, data analytics, structuring analytical tools, and data visualization, preferably in pharmaceutical or related industry. • Proficient with data science and analytics, modeling platforms, and visualization tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, Spotfire, PowerBi, Solvace); up-to-date on emerging technology and able to quickly adapt to new digital ways of working / systems. • Excellent written and verbal executive-level communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and confidently to stakeholders at all levels. • Ability to prioritize work with autonomy and drive results under pressure, cultivate growth mindset in others. • Skilled in leading cross-functional, complex projects with high organizational impact; requiring enterprise stakeholder manager, leading and influencing activities and non-direct team members, leading across multiple sites, workstreams globally. • Excellent collaboration, problem solving and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organization. • Proven critical thinking, analytical and logic skills with a focus on fact-based decision-making. • Financial management awareness and strong acumen - clear understanding and alignment on the business problem, value/return on investment, identifying critical stakeholders and team members, building project structure/approach, and creating robust execution plans • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, organized and able to prioritize execution activities to meet multiple deadlines in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment • Demonstrated learning agility and ability to inspire adaptability across the global supply chain. This posting is for a contract assignment with ASK Staffing DBA ASK Consulting to provide services to Bristol Myer-Squibb. The starting hourly compensation for this assignment is the following range ($50-$54/hr). While the final, individual compensation and any available benefits will be determined by your employer of record ASK Staffing, Inc (and not BMS), factors that will be included in making the final determination may include the characteristics of the assignment, such as demonstrated experience, required skill, and the geographic location where the job is performed. The starting hourly compensation may be subject to change. About ASK Consulting ASK Consulting is an award-winning, woman-owned staffing and recruitment solutions provider with over three decades of industry experience. We specialize in connecting businesses of all sizes—across IT, healthcare, engineering, finance, and more—with top-tier professionals. 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