Director, Commercial Data Product Owner at Bristol Myers Squibb

Director, Commercial Data Product Owner

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Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

The Director, Commercial Data Product Owner will implement and operationalize the commercialization data product strategy. This role focuses on execution: translating the product roadmap into deliverables, managing backlog, linking technical teams with business owners, and ensuring commercial data products are built, deployed, and adopted effectively.

The Director will work closely with Brand, Sales, Medical, Market Access, Business Insights & Technology, and other stakeholders to ensure data products support launch readiness, customer and patient insights, and commercialization operations. They will oversee the life-cycle of specific data product offerings (e.g., Customer 360, Payer 360, Incentive Comp Data Mart, Patient, Market Access, Medical), ensure integration with systems, data governance, quality, and deliver business impact.

The Director will manage technical workstreams, vendor relationships, and deployment timelines while ensuring adoption, training, and usage by commercialization teams. They will provide regular metrics on product performance and collaborate with analytics teams to refine and evolve products over time. The Director will also hire, coach and develop a small team of product managers/analysts and ensure the product delivery culture supports agility, responsiveness, and commercial value.

Responsibilities:

• Implement Commercialization Data Product Roadmap
• Manage Product Lifecycle & Delivery
• Stakeholder Engagement & Business Requirements Translation
• Data Integration, Quality & Governance Support
• Monitor Performance, Reliability & Operational Excellence of Data Products
• Adoption & Value Realization
• Vendor & Budget Oversight

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, Information Systems, Data/Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related).
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS) is a plusespecially for cross-functional leadership and commercialization strategy execution.
• Minimum 8 years years in commercial pharma/biotech data, analytics
• Minimum 4 years leading data product delivery

Key competencies desired:

Product Ownership & Technical Delivery

• Expertise in owning digital/data products as business offerings: backlog management, agile delivery, release planning, quality gate control.
• Technical fluency to engage with engineers and architects in defining system requirements, integrations and platform capabilities.

Commercialization & Customer Orientation

• Strong understanding of commercialization operations in the Pharmaceuticals industry including Sales execution, brand planning, payer/patient journeys and lifecycle dynamics.
• Ability to translate business objectives (e.g., launches, growth in CV/Neurology/HIV) into data product features and user value.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Influence

• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (Brand, Sales, Insights & Technology, Compliance).
• Ability to negotiate prioritizations, secure stakeholder alignment, and manage trade-offs among user needs, technical complexity and resource constraints.

Data & Analytics Fluency

• Understanding of data architecture, data integration patterns, master/data management, business rules and metadata.
• Comfortable working with analytics teams to monitor performance, derive insights, and evolve product capability over time.

Technical Architecture & Platform Integration Literacy

• Strong understanding of how data systems integrate (APIs, ETL/ELT, streaming/batch pipelines, real-time enablement)
• Able to partner effectively with architects and engineers to ensure scalability, security, and interoperability
• Comfortable making informed trade-offs between complexity, cost, and long-term platform evolution

Risk Management & Operational Discipline

• Proactively identifies risks related to data quality, availability, access controls, and regulatory exposure
• Skilled in issue triage, root-cause analysis, and implementation of preventative measures
• Maintains strong compliance mindset when handling sensitive healthcare data and commercial workflows

Change Management & Adoption Focus

• Skilled in driving user adoption, enabling business change, building training/enablement programs, and embedding new ways of working.
• Experience in linking usage to value and driving iterative enhancements based on real-world feedback and metrics.

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Compensation Overview:

Princeton - NJ - US: $197,800 - $239,681

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee's work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience. Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

? Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)
• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

*Eligibility Disclosure: T he summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.

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