Director, Contracting Systems, Governance and Operations

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

2d • $221,340 - $268,212

About The Position

The Director, Contracting Systems, Governance and Operations owns the strategy, governance, technology enablement, process design, knowledge management, and operational performance of Bristol Myers Squibb’s enterprise contracting function. The role leads both the existing Contract Operations team and the transformation to a single, integrated, AI-enabled contracting ecosystem, while ensuring current contracting operations continue to run effectively.

The Director partners with Law, Procurement, Enterprise Technology, Data & AI, Finance, Compliance, and business functions to deliver a scalable, data-driven contracting model across the contract lifecycle, from intake through execution and post-signature management. The model is intended to improve speed, consistency, risk management, and user experience.

The role leads enterprise contracting transformation and technology deployment; governs playbooks, templates, policies, and intake; oversees Icertis administration and operations; develops contract data strategy, analytics, and knowledge assets; and implements controls and continuous improvement. The Director also leads and develops the Contract Operations team and the enterprise transformation program team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; equivalent experience in contracting, legal operations, or procurement operations may be considered.
• Typically 10 or more years of experience in contracting, legal operations, or procurement operations.
• Five or more years leading teams or large cross-functional programs.
• Demonstrated people leadership, including managing managers and building teams from the ground up.
• Experience delivering enterprise transformation or technology implementations and designing end-to-end processes and operating models.
• Deep knowledge of contract templates, playbooks, fallback frameworks, and risk-tiered review models.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a similarly regulated industry.
• Working knowledge of contract data and analytics, AI governance, data privacy, and information security considerations in contracting technology.
• Excellent business judgment, executive presence, and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across Law, Procurement, Technology, and business functions.
• High integrity, resilience, and commitment to BMS values of integrity, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion, and passion.

Nice To Haves

• JD or other advanced degree.
• In-house experience.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management transformation or AI-assisted drafting and review.
• Experience selecting and managing contracting technology and vendors.
• Familiarity with Icertis or similar contract lifecycle management platforms and AI drafting tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise contracting transformation roadmap, simplifying, standardizing, and digitally enabling the contract lifecycle, including intake, routing, drafting, redlining, escalation, approvals, signatures, and data extraction.
• Serve as process owner for the enterprise contracting lifecycle, establishing workflows, decision rights, routing rules, service models, controls, performance standards, risk tiers, and review SLAs.
• Build and lead the enterprise contracting transformation program team and establish its structure, roles, and operating cadence.
• Onboard functional delivery owners and attorney towers to the new contracting model, including inventories, routing rules, risk criteria, template and fallback submissions, and retirement of legacy channels and shadow templates.
• Lead change management, training, and adoption across Law, Procurement, the business, and third parties contracting on BMS’s behalf.
• Lead deployment and governance of AI-enabled contracting capabilities, including intelligent intake, drafting, redlining, escalation management, knowledge management, and continuous learning.
• Manage relationships with contracting technology vendors and Technology teams, including requirements, architecture, data and security considerations, pilots, and go-live readiness.
• Own the integrated contracting technology roadmap across BMS Claude, Icertis, Databricks, SAP, Ariba, DocuSign, TPRM processes, repositories, and data products.
• Own vendor and budget strategy for contracting technology and service providers, including performance, cost, and contract management.
• Maintain enterprise contracting playbooks, decision frameworks, fallback positions, approval authorities, and governance standards.
• Own the governed template library, template selection guidance, and change-control process for templates and fallback updates, including monthly review of high-churn language.
• Set standards for capturing subject matter expert dispositions and converting them into governed fallback positions and counterparty-history guidance.
• Lead facilitator enablement through training, job aids, and guidance to support Procurement facilitators and reduce unnecessary legal escalations.
• Own contracting policies and guidance, including Global Contracting Hub content, in coordination with Procurement, Finance, Legal, and Compliance.
• Own the central legal intake model and escalation framework, including uniform intake, escalation routing, template selection guidance, and criteria for escalation to Legal.
• Own Icertis administration and provide centralized contract operations support across contracting towers.
• Lead repository mapping and decisions about the future contract repository, including controls linking payment to an agreement identified in the mapped repository.
• Establish and oversee contract data strategy, including metadata standards, extraction frameworks, reporting models, contract intelligence, and analytics.
• Own contracting reporting and metrics, including visibility into volume, cycle time, time in stage, escalations, fallback adoption, and template and playbook adoption.
• Develop and maintain enterprise contracting knowledge assets so approved positions, templates, and playbooks are captured, governed, and reused.
• Implement operational controls, approval frameworks, human checkpoints, AI governance mechanisms, and risk-management processes, including TPRM and financial review touchpoints.
• Drive process optimization using analytics, user feedback, cycle-time reduction, and automation opportunities, feeding learnings into templates and playbooks.
• Maintain audit readiness and clear interfaces with Procurement, Finance, and business owners to clarify contracting accountability.
• Lead, develop, and retain the Contract Operations team and enterprise contracting transformation program team, establishing a unified culture and operating rhythm.
• Set team priorities, performance expectations, and succession plans, and fill open roles.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings.
• Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit for eligible U.S.-based exempt employees, subject to manager approval.
• 11 paid company holidays each year.
• For eligible non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico: 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, subject to manager approval, 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Depending on eligibility, paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs.
• Eligible employees may receive an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
• Potential eligibility for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director