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Role Overview
At Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), a top 10 global biopharmaceutical leader, we are seeking a visionary scientific and technical leader for the role of Vice President of Research Business Insights & Technology.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President of R&D – Business Insights & Technology (BI&T), In this role, you will define and execute the strategy for technology to contribute to BMS’s drug discovery / research team and shape the future of medicine. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of R&D Business Insights & Technology, you will lead a global team of 175 talented analysts, data scientists, and engineers globally with key hubs in Boston, Princeton, California, Seattle, and Hyderabad. With a budget of approximately $100 million, you will harness data and innovation to drive smarter decision-making in early R&D.
This is an opportunity to transform how we discover and design new therapies, from identifying intervention points in disease to selecting & designing molecules to preparing for INDs and entering into clinical studies, by ensuring BMS remains at the cutting edge of scientific discovery through its use of technology.
In this highly visible leadership role, you will be responsible for working with the Research leadership team to establish the vision and strategy for technology, data, and AI in drug discovery, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration with research scientists and data-driven decision-making. You will work at the intersection of science, technology, and business, inspiring cross-functional teams to enable advanced AI/ML, data science, and predictive modeling techniques in pursuit of breakthrough therapies.
Your leadership and your work will directly influence BMS’s pipeline – accelerating the path from idea to lifesaving medicine – by integrating and ensuring usability of AI, technology, and data to support research and computational scientists generating data and deriving translational insights to de-risk drug projects and informing research priorities.
If you are a forward-thinking leader passionate about integrating science, technology, AI, and data to improve patients’ lives, this role offers a chance to make an enduring impact on our organization and the wider industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Vision & Leadership: Develop and execute a bold Business Insights and Technology strategy working closely with Research that aligns with BMS’s portfolio goals and mission to transform patients’ lives. Champion the use of cutting-edge technologies (GenAI and Agents, AI/ML, automation, high performance & cloud computing) to predict, design, assess, and prioritize the most promising drug intervention points and drug candidates. Articulate a clear, forward-looking vision that inspires both your team and stakeholders to embrace data-driven innovation.
- Operational Excellence: ensure that systems and technology operate every day and work well for their intended purposes. Reliability & continuous improvement of our key systems and from ELN to LIMS to analytic tools, is always the first priority.
- Global Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, develop, and empower a global team. Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture that encourages curiosity and experimentation. Build organizational capability by attracting top talent (including bringing in external expertise) and developing the next generation of leaders data, AI and technology.
- Innovation in Drug Discovery: Drive innovation on “in silico” drug design and discovery analytics. Partnering with R&D embedded specialized computational and quantitative groups (computational chemistry, and chemoinformatic) in the development of AI/ML models for molecule design, target identification, lead optimization, accelerating the discovery of high-quality drug candidates. Stay abreast of emerging scientific and technological advances and ensure BMS leverages these tools to pioneer new approaches in small molecule and biologics design.
- Translational & Precision Medicine: deliver capabilities for data and insight that bridge R&D. Build and manage technology capabilities that enable us to integrate data across preclinical data, clinical, and real-world evidence to inform early development strategies. Partner with R&D embedded computational groups (pharmacometrics, clinical pharmacology, informatics & predictive sciences).
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a bridge between scientific and technical teams, working closely with research computational scientists, medicinal chemists, biotherapeutic scientists, biologists, translational scientists, and Research leadership. Deliver on a portfolio of technology solutions and services to ensure day-to-day operations and make data and insights available for decision-making at all stages of research. Influence cross-functional strategy by communicating technology opportunities in clear, compelling ways to senior R&D stakeholders, tied to the ability to make evidence-based decisions on portfolio direction.
- Portfolio & Budget Management: Oversee a portfolio of analytics projects and platforms, managing an annual budget of >$100M. Prioritize initiatives that deliver high scientific impact, lower cost and accelerate BMS’s pipeline of new medicines. Ensure efficient allocation of resources and drive accountability for delivering results. Continuously evaluate build vs. buy opportunities, including external partnerships, platforms, or data acquisitions that could accelerate our analytics capabilities.
- Data & Platform Strategy: Accountable for the development of enterprise R&D data infrastructure and technology platforms in partnership with Research teams. Advocate for technologies that keep us at the forefront of science and enable rapid scaling of insights. Advocate and partner with R&D data teams to ensure data governance and quality for research data assets, and promote best practices in data science, reproducibility, and knowledge sharing across the organization.
- External Partnerships & Thought Leadership: Represent BMS as a thought leader in the external community. Identify and nurture strategic collaborations with academic institutions, industry consortia, and technology partners to continuously infuse new ideas and tools into BMS’s research workflows. Present at key conferences and publish noteworthy innovations, positioning BMS as a leader in data-driven and technology-enabled drug discovery.
- Drive a Data-Driven Culture: Foster and support a predict-first approach to drug discovery decision-making in partnership with the Research leadership team. Support with training, communication, process change, and success stories, and increase the adoption of analytics tools on research project teams.
Qualifications & Experience
- Scientific & Technical Training: master’s degree level or equivalent in relevant technology or scientific fields (e.g. Computer Science, MBA, computational sciences), with a deep understanding of drug discovery processes.
- Proven R&D Analytics Leadership: ~15+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical, technology, or biotechnology industry, with a strong track record in delivering results through analytics, data science or related functions in IT and R&D groups. Demonstrated impact in applying technology/AI/data to drive decisions in drug discovery or early development (e.g. successful design of drug candidates, faster project progression, or improved target validation through data insights).
- Strategic Visionary: Bold thinker with the ability to envision the future of data-driven discovery and set a compelling strategy. Proven experience in transforming organizations or strategies – for example, leading technology innovation at scale, establishing new technology capabilities, or driving business outcomes.
- Global People Leader: Significant experience managing large, global teams (100+ employees) and multimillion-dollar budgets. Exceptional people leadership skills – able to inspire a shared purpose, cultivate talent, and build diverse, high-performing teams across different cultures and geographies. Adept at organizational design and scaling teams to meet evolving business needs.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Excellent collaboration and influencing skills at senior levels. Able to work seamlessly across R&D functions to drive a unified data strategy. Comfortable presenting and working with executive committees and governance boards with well-articulated insights and recommendations.
- Scientific & Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of modern data science, AI/ML, and analytics tools relevant to pharmaceutical research. Familiarity with areas such as predictive and causal modeling, computational chemistry/biology, bioinformatics, statistics, and AI-driven drug design is required. Able to guide teams in selecting and applying the right technologies and approaches to complex scientific problems.
- Innovation & Results Orientation: Passion for innovation with a demonstrated ability to translate new ideas into action. Not afraid to challenge the status quo; has introduced new technologies or approaches that delivered tangible improvements. Outcome-focused, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity to deliver results.
- Industry Perspective: Broad view of the biopharma R&D landscape, including an understanding of emerging trends in R&D information technologies and technology-enabled business outcomes. External mindset with the ability to benchmark BMS’s capabilities against industry best-in-class and bring in outside perspectives. A network of contacts in the research technology community is a plus.
- Inspirational Communicator: Excellent communication skills with an ability to articulate a vision and energize others. Can distill complex analytical concepts into clear messages for diverse audiences, from research scientists to C-suite executives. Fluent in the language of both science and business, enabling effective storytelling around data and its impact on patients.
Join us in this leadership role to reimagine what is possible in drug discovery through data technology and AI. We welcome applications from transformational leaders ready to lead business-critical operations and scale innovation in close partnership with Research teams. If you have the passion, experience, and bold vision to lead a data-driven revolution in biomedical research, we encourage you to apply and help Bristol Myers Squibb deliver the medicines of tomorrow to patients in need. Together, we can accelerate the journey from scientific insight to life-changing medicines for patients.
If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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