Senior Data Product Owner, Medical Affairs

Bristol Myers Squibb; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 168,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Product Owner, to drive data products in medical affairs and commercialization domains from roadmap to deployment. The role collaborates with Analytics, IT, and business teams to ensure data governance, quality, and catalog accuracy across sensitive medical data including KOL engagement and HCP privacy.

The incumbent leads design and governance frameworks, builds catalog entries, and guides end‑to‑end delivery while ensuring

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).
• Experience with Medical Affairs data domains (e.g., medical inquiry management, KOL/MSL engagement, publications, evidence generation) and the compliance considerations that distinguish them from commercial data, such as promotional/non‑promotional separation and HCP privacy

Responsibilities

• Translate the strategic roadmap into delivery plans, backlogs, and release schedules; track scope, dependencies, and timelines with Analytics, Medical and 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 CASA, Analytics, Brand, Sales, Medical Affairs and Market Access stakeholders to capture requirements and translate workflows into user stories and technical specs.
• Support implementation and enforcement of data governance frameworks, ownership structures, and stewardship roles across commercial data domains.
• Track compliance metrics, identify gaps, and contribute to data quality rules, lineage documentation, and issue management workflows.
• 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

MDM

Stakeholder management

Commercial data

Medical Affairs data

Data modeling

Catalog management

Databricks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Bristol Myers Squibb seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Product Owner, to drive data products in medical affairs and commercialization domains from roadmap to deployment. The role collaborates with Analytics, IT, and business teams to ensure data governance, quality, and catalog accuracy across sensitive medical data including KOL engagement and HCP privacy.

The incumbent leads design and governance frameworks, builds catalog entries, and guides end‑to‑end delivery while ensuring