Director, Insights & Innovation - Trial Analytics, Insights & Planning

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Insights & Innovation (I&I) will serve as a senior analytical, data science, and methodological authority and leader within TAIP, accountable for owning the roadmap to develop, deliver, and continuously evolve automated, advanced analytics and AI-enabled decision-support capabilities across the trial lifecycle. This role bridges portfolio analytics, applied data science, data governance, and analytics product stewardship, ensuring that insights used throughout trial design, feasibility, enrollment forecasting and execution are scalable, explainable, and decision driving, delivered via Photon and other enterprise platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree required; advanced degree preferred (MBA, MSc, PhD, or equivalent) in a relevant field
• 10+ years of experience across clinical development, trial analytics, biostatistics, data governance, advanced trial analytics, or management consulting
• Demonstrated experience working with data scientists, advanced analytics, or AI-enabled solutions, with the ability to translate business questions into analytically tractable problems.
• Experience governing analytics platforms, tools, or data products in regulated or high-risk environments.
• Strong understanding of predictive modeling, simulation, and/or machine learning concepts sufficient to challenge assumptions, evaluate limitations, and guide roadmap decisions.
• Proven ability to act as a bridge between business stake and IT/data science teams, shaping solutions from concept through adoption.
• Proven track record of driving adoption of new systems, methods, or reporting processes across large organizations.
• Experience with enterprise analytics systems (Workbench, Performance Central, CTMS, etc.)
• Strong documentation, communication, and decision-framing skills
• Proven ability to lead teams, engage with senior stakeholders, and operate effectively across global functions

Responsibilities

• Own and orchestrate the end-to-end roadmap for TAIP’s advanced analytics capabilities, including automated, predictive, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Define priority use cases, maturity stages, and value realization in partnership with TAIp leadership, Business Insights & Technology, and Data Science counterparts (e.g., DQS).
• Ensure roadmap alignment to portfolio and trial decision points, not just tool delivery.
• Own and govern the analytical methodologies underpinning TAIP deliverables across feasibility, site selection, enrollment forecasting, and portfolio insights.
• Define when specific methods, metrics, or tools are appropriate, and when they are not.
• Provide business ownership for analytics products used by TAIP (e.g., Photon, Comet), solutions are designed for automation, scalability, and reuse.
• Translate business needs into analytically sound solution concepts and sense check technical proposals from IT or vendors.
• Shape how predictive modeling, simulation, machine learning, and AI are responsibly applied within TAIP to inform trial and portfolio decisions.
• Partner with enterprise data science teams to define analytical approaches, success criteria, and validation expectations, while ensuring transparency, interpretability, and regulatory appropriateness.
• Translate complex analytical outputs into clear, decision-ready insights for senior leadership forums.
• Ensure outputs answer the right business questions, at the right time, with appropriate confidence.
• Provide informed challenge when analytics risk being misapplied, over-interpreted or operationally misaligned.
• Act as a point of accountability for analytical integrity, escalation of risk, and limitation disclosure.
• Partner with relevant business stakeholders (e.g., Clinical operations, Biostatistics, Data Governance, etc.) to align methodologies and avoid parallel or conflicting standards.
• Clarify and align ownership boundaries to accelerate delivery and avoid rework.
• Mentor junior analysts and strategists to develop strong analytical judgment, methodological literacy, and confidence to challenge assumptions, tools, and stakeholders.
• Promote a culture where clarity, transparency, and rigor are valued over speed or optics.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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