Strategic Director - Priority Digital Projects Lead

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 225,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

11 paid holidays

Health benefits

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Senior Director, Priority Digital Project Lead to guide multi-functional teams across PDS, owning roadmaps for one or more Aim Points and PDPs. You will drive value outcomes, align with enterprise AI priorities, and ensure timely, scalable product delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, deep digital fluency, and experience delivering enterprise-scale digital transformations within biopharma.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred in life sciences, engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, regulatory affairs, data/analytics, digital transformation, or business.
• 10+ years of experience in biopharma operations, supply chain, manufacturing, product development, MS&T, regulatory CMC, quality, tech transfer, launch readiness, portfolio operations, digital product management, or enterprise transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional, enterprise-visible initiatives where business process, data, technology, AI, governance, and adoption must come together to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong end-to-end value-chain fluency relevant to the assigned Priority Digital Project (for example: development, transfer, filing, launch, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, or portfolio interfaces).
• High digital and data fluency, with enough technical depth to challenge architecture, data model, automation, workflow, and AI/ML choices while partnering with technical leads for delivery integrity.
• Strong executive influence, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to drive trade-off decisions and alignment when enterprise and functional priorities conflict.
• Experience with agile product delivery, value-stream mapping, business case development, stage-gated investment governance, change management, adoption planning, and value tracking preferred.

Responsibilities

• Cross-functional team leadership: Lead cross‑functional teams drawn from across PDS functions to deliver the assigned Aim Point(s) and Priority Digital Projects, providing day‑to‑day direction, accountability, and coaching to Product Owners, Technical Leads, and delivery team members regardless of their reporting line.
• Aim Point and PDP outcome ownership: Own the roadmap for the assigned Aim Point(s) and ensure every Priority Digital Project, product, backlog, and stage‑gate decision ladders to defined value outcomes (for example: cost, cash flow, speed, quality, productivity, or revenue, depending on the Aim Point or PDP in scope).
• Vision ownership and enterprise alignment: Own and evangelize the assigned Aim Point's vision and ensure product decisions ladder to PDS 2030, PDS digital strategy, and enterprise AI priorities.
• Portfolio strategy and sequencing: Define the critical‑few roadmap, sequence work through execution waves, manage interdependencies with other Priority Digital Projects and non‑Fusion work, and ensure stage‑gate readiness for prototype, MVP, scale, and value realization decisions.
• Product leadership: Lead and align Product Owners across relevant PDS functions to ensure products are reusable, modular, adopted, and sustained in core business processes.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive influence

Product development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Senior Director, Priority Digital Project Lead to guide multi-functional teams across PDS, owning roadmaps for one or more Aim Points and PDPs. You will drive value outcomes, align with enterprise AI priorities, and ensure timely, scalable product delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, deep digital fluency, and experience delivering enterprise-scale digital transformations within biopharma.