Director, Life Cycle Assessment & Product Stewardship

Bristol Myers Squibb

19h • $179,300 - $239,001

About The Position

Bristol Myers Squibb is hiring a Director to join its Product Stewardship group within the Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability Enablement organization. The successful candidate will serve as the company’s internal authority on product environmental footprinting, leading technical execution of Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) and Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and developing a multi-year strategy that makes this capability scalable and decision-grade. The role includes advising on investment priorities, developing digital tools, embedding PCF/LCA into product development and procurement decisions, and engaging suppliers and external standards bodies.

The Director will build and operate PCF/LCA methodologies, governance, tools, and data-management systems, and lead implementation and lifecycle management of the Watershed platform. The role also translates external product-stewardship requirements into internal programs and workflows, represents BMS in industry initiatives, and works across the organization to incorporate life cycle thinking into design, formulation, packaging, devices, and sourcing. The successful candidate may also support other Product Stewardship activities, including global research projects, environmental support of sites, extended producer responsibility, chemical registrations, and hazard communication, and will serve as a primary backup for the Product Stewardship Lead.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, industrial ecology, chemistry, or a related field, or a bachelor’s degree with equivalent demonstrated LCA/PCF experience.
• At least 10 years of relevant industrial experience, including hands-on delivery of cradle-to-grave life cycle assessments and product carbon footprints.
• Working fluency with ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14067, and the GHG Protocol Product Standard.
• Hands-on proficiency with recognized LCA software, such as SimaPro or GaBi, and life cycle inventory databases, such as ecoinvent.
• Ability to produce robust, low-uncertainty, third-party-verifiable PCFs/LCAs, including managing data quality, boundary setting, and uncertainty analysis to withstand independent verification and audit.
• Experience operationalizing product-stewardship or environmental regulations in a regulated industry by translating external requirements into executable internal programs.
• Ability to translate technical results into clear business, regulatory, and commercial decisions for non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across procurement, manufacturing, regulatory, commercial, and sustainability/disclosure functions.
• Ability to innovate and encourage innovation, including enhancing performance through unique and leading-edge approaches.
• Willingness to embrace changes needed to adapt to new circumstances and uncertainties.

Nice To Haves

• Pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry experience.
• Engagement with pharma-sector harmonization efforts.
• Familiarity with the pharma-specific PAS 2090:2025 product category rules and the French medicine carbon score methodology.
• Familiarity with Watershed.
• Experience with AI and/or automation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as BMS’s subject-matter expert and strategic lead for LCAs and PCFs.
• Build, run, and critically review audit-ready, third-party-verifiable cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave LCAs and PCFs for BMS products.
• Develop the internal PCF/LCA operating model, including governance, standard methodologies, digital tools, data-management systems, and training for non-specialists.
• Own PCF/LCA technology implementation and lifecycle, including guiding the Watershed platform’s tool design, data quality, and fit with business and regulatory needs.
• Translate external product-stewardship regulations and mandates into executable internal programs and repeatable workflows.
• Represent BMS in industry workstreams and projects.
• Work with the Environment and Sustainability Enablement group to embed life cycle thinking into design, formulation, packaging, device, and sourcing decisions, and develop a roadmap for using LCA/PCF in product development.
• Serve as a primary backup for the Product Stewardship Lead.
• As time permits, participate in other Product Stewardship activities, such as global research projects, environmental support of sites, extended producer responsibility, chemical registrations, and hazard communication.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 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 employee groups, 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays, subject to manager approval.
• Depending on eligibility, paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves 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 discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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