Senior Director, Priority Digital Project Lead (3 Openings)

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

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About The Position

The Senior Director, Priority Digital Project Lead is the strategic leader and chief value architect for one or more assigned PDS Aim Points and the Priority Digital Projects (PDPs) that execute against them. The role translates enterprise intent into measurable, value-backed outcomes for PDS and owns the multi-year roadmap for assigned Aim Points. It leads cross-functional teams across PDS and orchestrates products from design through stage-gated delivery, ensuring they are adopted, compliant, and sustained in day-to-day operations.

The role works across a broad network of enterprise partners, which may include Global Quality, site Quality, CTDO, Manufacturing, MS&T, GBU, Regulatory (including Regulatory CMC), R&D, Global Supply Chain, GTS, Engineering, Finance, BI&T, Product Development, procurement and supplier interfaces, logistics, CoS, functional portfolio leads, site operations, and the broader Fusion/PDP ecosystem, depending on the assigned Aim Points and PDPs. It aligns people, process, data, technology, and AI into a single execution system, connecting Aim Point and PDP goals with site- and function-level execution while anchoring product investments to business value, adoption, and sustained operating change.

Assigned Aim Points may include Cash Flow Optimization, Revenue Acceleration, Zero Disruptions, Productivity & Decision Velocity, and Patient Reliability. Execution takes place through Priority Digital Projects, the critical-few digital transformation initiatives prioritized by PDS for investment, governance, and executive sponsorship. A PDP may align with an Aim Point or address another PDS priority, such as an enterprise-wide platform initiative.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of experience in biopharma operations, supply chain, manufacturing, product development, MS&T, regulatory CMC, quality, tech transfer, launch readiness, portfolio operations, digital product management, or enterprise transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional, enterprise-visible initiatives that bring together business process, data, technology, AI, governance, and adoption to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong end-to-end value-chain fluency relevant to the assigned Priority Digital Project, such as development, transfer, filing, launch, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, or portfolio interfaces.
• High digital and data fluency, with enough technical depth to challenge architecture, data model, automation, workflow, and AI/ML choices while partnering with technical leads on delivery integrity.
• Strong to exceptional executive influence, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to drive trade-off decisions and alignment when enterprise and functional priorities conflict.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in life sciences, engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, regulatory affairs, data/analytics, digital transformation, or business.
• Experience with agile product delivery, value-stream mapping, business case development, stage-gated investment governance, change management, adoption planning, and value tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams across PDS to deliver assigned Aim Points and Priority Digital Projects, providing day-to-day direction, accountability, and coaching to Product Owners, Technical Leads, and delivery team members regardless of reporting line.
• Own the roadmap for assigned Aim Points and ensure each Priority Digital Project, product, backlog, and stage-gate decision aligns with defined value outcomes such as cost, cash flow, speed, quality, productivity, or revenue.
• Own and promote the assigned Aim Point vision, ensuring product decisions align with PDS 2030, PDS digital strategy, and enterprise AI priorities.
• Define the critical-few roadmap, sequence work through execution waves, manage interdependencies with other Priority Digital Projects and non-Fusion work, and ensure readiness for prototype, MVP, scale, and value-realization stage gates.
• Lead and align Product Owners across relevant PDS functions so products are reusable, modular, adopted, and sustained in core business processes.
• Drive convergence of relevant source systems, data assets, domain knowledge, and AI or automation capabilities, partnering with technical leads to ensure delivery integrity.
• Partner with Finance to define baselines, benefit logic, and value-capture mechanisms, and champion measurable improvements relevant to the assigned PDP.
• Align sponsors and functional leaders, establish clear escalation paths, cut through silos, and embed site and functional perspectives as work moves from design to execution.
• Reinforce agile ways of working; clarify accountabilities across Fusion/PDP Team Leads, Product Owners, Technical Leads, advisory groups, and delivery teams; and help retire analogue ways of working where digital-first operations are ready to scale.
• Plan change management, communications, training, adoption metrics, and run-state ownership from the beginning to ensure products are used and sustained.

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.
• U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, and 11 paid company holidays.
• Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, subject to manager approval, 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Depending on eligibility, additional time-off benefits may include 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.
• Eligible employees may also be eligible for discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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