Director, Digital Transformation

Bristol Myers Squibb • Devens, MA

23h • $217,570 - $263,649

About The Position

Lead the Devens Rewiring transformation by converting Blueprinting outputs into an integrated, multi-year roadmap and driving implementation across Biologics, Cell Therapy, and campus functions. The role connects strategy to execution across end-to-end planning, materials and warehousing, quality and sample-to-release, productivity, operating-model changes, and enabling digital capabilities. The successful candidate is an experienced transformation leader who can simplify complexity, mobilize cross-functional teams, challenge established practices, and deliver sustainable operational and financial results in a regulated environment.

This enterprise-minded, execution-focused leader connects process, organization, technology, data, and behavior; creates clarity amid ambiguity; influences without relying on hierarchy; and links simplification and productivity to reliable delivery for patients. Success includes delivering executable plans on schedule, realizing and sustaining validated productivity and financial commitments, establishing process ownership and governance, improving process adoption, and developing transformation capabilities that can be reused across the network.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Operations, or a related field.
• Significant experience leading complex transformation, operational excellence, manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, digital, or cross-functional programs in a regulated environment.
• Proven ability to move initiatives from strategy and design through implementation and sustained adoption.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations and end-to-end business processes.
• Demonstrated leadership of large, cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Strong program and portfolio management skills, including integrated planning, dependencies, risks, resources, and governance.
• Experience developing business cases and measuring operational and financial outcomes.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, decision-framing, and change-leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience with significant leadership responsibility.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading large-scale lean, operational excellence, digital, or process transformation.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile/Scrum, and structured change-management methods.
• MBA or advanced technical or business degree.
• Experience implementing integrated planning, manufacturing, quality, materials, or digital solutions across functions or sites.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the Devens Rewiring transformation and its integrated roadmap, milestones, dependencies, resources, and outcomes.
• Translate approved blueprints into sequenced implementation waves while protecting manufacturing, supply, quality, and technology-transfer commitments.
• Maintain clear ownership, decision rights, governance, stage gates, readiness criteria, and scope control.
• Resolve cross-functional barriers and incorporate lessons learned into future deployments.
• Coordinate planning, materials and warehousing, quality and sample-to-release, productivity, and digital workstreams.
• Manage dependencies across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, MS&T, Digital/IT, Engineering, Finance, HR, and Operational Excellence.
• Align the roadmap with enterprise and network programs to reuse solutions and avoid duplicate investment or benefit claims.
• Build a “One Devens” operating model with simplified processes, handoffs, roles, governance, and decision rights across Biologics and Cell Therapy.
• Ensure new ways of working are practical for frontline teams and improve daily execution.
• Maintain an integrated view of commitments, business cases, investments, milestones, risks, and benefits.
• Partner with Finance and business owners to validate investments, savings, operational outcomes, and benefit realization.
• Establish measures for readiness, adoption, execution progress, and sustained performance.
• Lead the change narrative and partner with HR, Change Management, Communications, and site leaders to build engagement.
• Involve frontline employees and subject-matter experts in solution design and address adoption barriers early.
• Lead program governance across workstream, campus, and executive levels.
• Provide transparent reporting on progress, decisions, risks, dependencies, resources, investment, and value.
• Maintain a single integrated plan and prepare recommendations for senior governance forums.
• Coach workstream leaders and project teams in disciplined execution and problem solving.
• Transition ownership to business-process owners and codify approaches for use across the broader network.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• 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 employees.
• For specified non-exempt, RayzeBio, and Puerto Rico employees: 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 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