Associate Director, Commercial Data Products & Governance

Bristol Myers Squibb; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 179,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton, NJ seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Product Owner to drive commercialization data products from strategy to deployment. You will coordinate data governance, modeling, catalog management, and quality across multiple data domains, partnering with Brand, Sales, Medical, and Market Access teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, maintain artifacts, and ensure adoption of data products with governance and security

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data, Life Sciences, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data products, data governance, MDM, analytics enablement, or commercial data within pharmaceutical or life sciences organizations.
• Experience with data governance principles, data catalog platforms, and metadata management
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery and execution through strong stakeholder engagement and cross‑functional collaboration (Commercial, Analytics, IT, Compliance, vendors).

Responsibilities

• Translate the strategic roadmap into delivery plans, backlogs, and release schedules; track scope, dependencies, and timelines with IT.
• Facilitate planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and support end-to-end delivery from requirements through deployment.
• Maintain product documentation, release notes, and versioning; ensure modeling artifacts and catalog entries are part of the definition of done.
• Engage Brand, Sales, Medical, and Market Access stakeholders to capture requirements and translate business workflows into user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications.
• Support implementation and enforcement of data governance frameworks, ownership structures, and stewardship roles across commercial data domains.
• Monitor data quality dashboards; upscale completeness, latency, and accuracy issues to appropriate teams.
• Develop enablement plans including training, user guides, and dashboards; track usage metrics and synthesize feedback to drive refinements.
• Support vendor management, SLA monitoring, budget tracking, and research of new technology and tooling options.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Data modeling

Product ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data, Life Sciences, Business

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Data catalog

Metadata management

MDM

Job description

Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton, NJ seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Product Owner to drive commercialization data products from strategy to deployment. You will coordinate data governance, modeling, catalog management, and quality across multiple data domains, partnering with Brand, Sales, Medical, and Market Access teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, maintain artifacts, and ensure adoption of data products with governance and security