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Summary

The Associate Director, Commercial AI Product Owner is responsible for leading the transformation of advanced analytics into durable, scalable, and AI-powered solutions that directly accelerate commercial decision-making across the enterprise. You will collaborate across global teams—including BI&T, Data Science, and the engineering/analytics group—to deliver high-quality, production-grade analytics platforms, tools, and automation that embed actionable intelligence into everyday workflows for Marketing, Field, and Market Access stakeholders. This role enables the shift from project-based analytics to platform-enabled, always-on decision intelligence.

You will operate within a hub-and-spoke model, setting standards, governance, and reusable components that empower therapeutic area-aligned teams while driving enterprise-wide consistency, speed, and reliability. You’ll be a technical and strategic leader, guiding cross-functional pods, productizing analytical models, and driving innovation within agentic AI platforms to support forward-looking, actionable brand and omnichannel insights.

Responsibilities:

Tools, Automation, & AI Products

• Product Ownership: Serve as dedicated product owner for the Agentic MMx (Marketing Mix) Platform - own its strategy, vision, roadmap, and stakeholder alignment in partnership with BI&T and Data Science. Drive the ongoing evolution of this self-service analytics hub to deliver advanced capabilities, including KDA, scenario simulation, investment planning, constrained optimization, and real-time decision support.
• Pod Leadership: Lead the Tools & Automated Solutions cross functional team across BI&T, Data Science, TA Analytics, and analytics/engineering to architect, launch, and maintain scalable analytics solutions—covering dashboards, always-on insights, scenario simulators, measurement pipelines, and democratized KDA platforms.
• Collaboration: Partner with BI&T, Data Science, TA Analytics, and engineering to deliver analytics-ready datasets, feature stores, semantic layers, and automated data pipelines, standardizing and accelerating insight generation.
• Efficiency and Innovation: Champion automation, templated workflows, and platformization to reduce manual effort and external vendor reliance, maximizing reuse and operational efficiency. Continuously identify opportunities for tool innovation and scalable enablement of best practice measurement solutions.
• Integrate decision science outputs into annual planning, CRM (e.g., Veeva), and omnichannel orchestration workflows via APIs and embedded dashboards to ensure sustained adoption and business impact.
• Develop monitoring and governance dashboards for real-time oversight of model/data health, user adoption, SLAs, drift/stability, and auditability.

Agentic & AI Capability Development

• Architect and deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous analytics agents using multi-agent frameworks, enabling progression from descriptive analytics to causal analysis, root-cause insights, and predictive recommendations.
• Own the AI product lifecycle: manage proof-of-concept, pilot, rollout, and continuous optimization; establish robust governance covering safety, security, ethical standards, and privacy compliance.

Cross-Functional Team Management & Enablement

• Lead cross-functional pods (BI&T engineers, analytics/data engineers, platform SMEs), managing product roadmaps, agile backlogs, and release cycles.
• Codify and promote engineering standards for deployment, MLOps, CI/CD, QA/testing, SLAs/SLOs, and RACI matrices for reliability and quality.
• Standardize and scale processes, maximize component reuse, minimize vendor dependence, and ensure governance and privacy compliance.
• Coach and enable enterprise and TA-aligned analytics teams, driving best practice adoption, technical enablement, and a culture of consistent delivery and innovation.
• Promote agile ways of working using collaboration platforms (e.g., Jira) for rapid development and communication.

Advance Governance, Compliance & Trust

• Partner with Data Governance, Legal, and Privacy teams to define and enforce data/AI governance: SLAs, RACI, privacy-by-design, and responsible/ethical AI controls.
• Ensure AI tools and solutions are explainable, auditable, and compliant; continuously monitor for bias, document decisions, and incorporate human-in-the-loop mechanisms where required.
• Lead structured change management and feedback loops to drive sustained tool adoption and measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD preferred) in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Econometrics, or related quantitative field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in pharma commercial analytics or decision science.
• Proficiency with causal inference and incrementality tools (geo-experiments, matched markets, synthetic controls, uplift modeling). Expertise in Bayesian/hierarchical MMx, adstock/distributed lag, saturation/response curve modeling, and operationalizing these methodologies in automated pipelines and platforms.
• Proven experience launching and scaling agentic AI solutions (multi-agent systems, LLMs, RAG, semantic layers, real-time architectures).
• Deep proficiency in enabling agent collaboration, negotiation, and task orchestration, including coordination of agent roles/functions within a commercial analytics or decision science context.
• Proven experience operationalizing LLMs for commercial use cases—knowledge retrieval, summarization, generative analytics, automation of insight generation.
• Experience embedding AI analytics platforms into commercial workflows with enterprise-wide adoption.
• Extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical data (claims, APLD, specialty pharmacy, digital signals, promotional data).
• Strong foundation in AI governance (risk management, security, privacy, model monitoring, human-in-the-loop) in regulated environments.
• Experience with cloud analytics platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Spark), MLOps, and BI tools; understanding of HIPAA, GDPR/CCPA and regulatory standards.
• Mastery of programming and data science tools (Python, R), machine learning frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch), large-scale analytics environments, visualization platforms, and workflow automation.
• Familiarity with CRM (e.g., Veeva), omnichannel metrics, multi-touch attribution (MTA), and AI-driven next-best-action frameworks.
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement and communication skills—capable of translating complex analytics concepts into actionable business strategies.

Compensation Overview:

Princeton - NJ - US: $167,540 - $203,013

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.

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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

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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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