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Position Summary:
The Director, Digital Health Strategy & Operations is a strategic leadership role responsible for shaping, operationalizing, and governing the enterprise Digital Health portfolio at BMS. Reporting to the Vice President, IT Digital Health, this role acts as the strategic integrator and execution engine for a single, enterprise-wide Digital Health organization serving all of BMS.
The role ensures that Digital Health initiatives, that span early diagnosis, patient engagement, AI-enabled evidence generation, and digital biomarkers, are prioritized, funded, governed, and executed with rigor. The role will have particular focus on ensuring the deployment of digital solutions at scale in clinical care environments.
The Director, Digital Health Strategy & Operations also owns the performance management and communication spine of Digital Health: defining outcome-based KPIs, tracking portfolio value, and translating complex work into clear, executive-ready narratives that improve visibility, decision-making, and organizational alignment and ensure that strategy, execution, and storytelling are tightly connected and consistently landed across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
Digital Health Strategy & Portfolio Leadership:
Partner with the Digital Health team to shape and execute the enterprise Digital Health strategy and roadmap across R&D, Medical and Commercial.
Translate strategic priorities into a focused portfolio of initiatives and lead portfolio governance for Digital Health, including initiative intake, prioritization, investment decisions, and lifecycle management.
Drive the deployment and adoption of digital health initiatives, including hospital- and health system–level deployments at scale
Establish deployment strategies and playbooks that align with clinical workflows, care pathways, and operational realities in hospital settings, including change management and post-launch optimization
Develop business cases, investment theses, and value frameworks that incorporate clinical, operational, and economic outcomes
Drive the leadership operating rhythm, including strategic planning, governance forums, portfolio reviews, and team engagements, ensuring clarity on priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs.
Act as a force multiplier for the team by ensuring alignment between strategy, portfolio execution, metrics, and communication.
Execution Excellence & Value Realization:
Define and own outcome-based KPIs that measure Digital Health impact (e.g., patient outcomes, time to diagnosis, trial efficiency, adoption, scalability, value realization).
Drive consistent execution standards across pilots, scale-ups, and enterprise deployments.
Proactively identify and resolve execution bottlenecks, interdependencies, and misalignments that slow delivery or dilute impact.
Executive Communication & Enterprise Narrative:
Own and elevate the Digital Health communication strategy, ensuring consistent, high-quality, executive-ready messaging.
Translate complex portfolios, technologies, and partnerships into clear narratives that articulate progress, impact, risks, and decisions.
Develop standardized leadership reporting, and storytelling that improve transparency, alignment, and confidence in Digital Health delivery.
Strengthen how Digital Health value is understood across BMS, reinforcing credibility and enterprise trust.
Qualifications & Experience:
Education
Bachelor’s degree required
Advanced degree (MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, MS or equivalent) strongly preferred
Experience:
10+ years of experience across strategy, operations, digital health, life sciences, clinical operations, or healthcare leadership
Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional portfolios in a matrixed, global organization preferred
Experience leading or supporting digital initiatives embedded in clinical care delivery (e.g., clinical decision support, workflow tools, patient monitoring, care coordination platforms)
Familiarity with regulated digital health solutions (e.g., SaMD, digital therapeutics, real-world data platforms)
Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions without direct line authority.
Core Capabilities
Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline and bias for outcomes.
Deep experience in portfolio governance, KPI definition, and performance management.
Strong financial and operational acumen, including prioritization and value realization.
Exceptional executive communication skills—able to make complex topics clear, concise, and decision-ready.
Comfort navigating ambiguity, innovation, and competing priorities.
High credibility with scientific, clinical, technical, and business stakeholders, paired with a high bar for delivery.
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.
Compensation Overview:
The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:
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.
*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.
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
BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
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.
Supporting People with Disabilities
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