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Position Purpose

As the Front-Office Lead, you will be at the forefront of our customer interactions, ensuring seamless service delivery and exceptional performance.

Lead a team of customer service associates, manage day-to-day operations, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Pivotal in promoting a culture of effective financial and quality controls, compliance, and knowledge sharing across the Order to Cash (O2C) department.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & Management: Lead all Front-Office activities for a group of international markets within Europe in the capability centre, including those performed by the customer service team. Ensure effective service delivery and performance of customer-facing activities.

• Performance Reporting: Report the outcomes of Order Management (OM) team activities through defined KPIs to key business partners and the O2C Lead. Highlight areas for further improvement, continuously assess team capacity, and ensure an effective BCP is in place.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and project initiatives with a focus on effectiveness and efficiency within your own and cross-O2C functions.

• Compliance & Controls: Promote and emphasize an environment of effective financial and quality controls, compliance and a knowledge-sharing culture; related to Pharmaceutical Industry Good Distribution Practice ( GDP ) regulation

• Team Development: Clearly define performance standards and hold functional managers directly responsible for the execution of processes, controls, and knowledge management within their function and markets in scope.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Ensure end-to-end (E2E) processes and cross-functional alignment to achieve organizational goals. Effective business partnering with in-market European teams including Quality function, Business Control Function, Finance Directors.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or equivalent business experience.

Required Knowledge/Skills

• Good understanding of Good Distribution Practice ( GDP ) in Pharmaceutical industry

• Knowledge of SAP and/ or other enterprise systems; with ability to manipulate and analyze data

• Deep understanding of financial and quality controls, compliance, and knowledge management.

• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills

Required Experience

• Proven experience in a leadership role within a customer service or Front-Office environment

• Proven experience in managing international and diverse teams

• Ability to drive continuous improvement and standardization initiatives; with clear examples of outcomes

• Demonstrable experience of business partnering across a complex matrix organisation

Preferred skills / experience

• Additional European language beyond English; such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch

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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.

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 an inclusive culture, promoting diversity 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 a diverse 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.

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