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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Hybrid
At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.
What we are looking for:
The Worldwide Commercialization Learning (WWCL) Centre of Excellence (CoE) is seeking an experienced, agile-minded learning leader to serve as Associate Director, Agile Strategic Learning Lead.
The WWCL CoE designs and builds the skills content and learning pathways used by every market BMS operates in and by home office functions globally, typically deployed with no more than ~20% local adaptation. The pooled Senior Manager team this role leads and resources is the operational engine that determines the pace, consistency, and quality of that output.
This role owns and leads WWCL CoE’s pooled Senior Manager capability, a flexible, cross-portfolio team of Senior Managers, Agile Strategic Learning Partners who are deployed dynamically against the CoE’s highest-priority work. Rather than being aligned to a single functional area, this role’s Senior Managers flex across Commercialization Field Skills, CASA & 3M (Medical, Marketing, Market Access) Skills, Platforms & AI Adoption, and First Line Manager (FLM)/Leadership Development, in line with the CoE’s unified operating model. This is a people leadership role: the Associate Director holds direct line management responsibility for the Senior Manager, Agile Strategic Learning Partner team, and is responsible for their development, performance, and effective deployment across the full breadth of CoE Skills team priorities.
This is distinct from the CoE’s functional Associate Directors (Field AI Transformation Learning; Platforms Skills Development; CASA & 3M Skills Development; Medical Skills), whose primary orientation is toward business stakeholders, understanding commercial, medical, or platform needs to shape design intent for their portfolio area. The Associate Director, Agile Strategic Learning Lead is internally oriented: the role’s focus is leading the Senior Manager team and define and build the mechanics of the operating model itself; tiering, prioritization, capacity, and skills-matching so that the right resource is aligned to the right work at the right time, in close partnership with the functional Associate Directors who own that work.
This role works in close, ongoing partnership with the Senior Director, Worldwide Commercialization Learning Strategy & Operations and Enterprise LEAP Performance, ensuring the pooled Senior Manager team's capacity, delivery, and demand data directly inform Enterprise LEAP performance, value case, and vendor governance outcomes.
The CoE's Priority, Tiering, and Resource principles have been defined in principle by CoE leadership, but the operating mechanics that bring them to life, capacity matching, portfolio review rhythms, and skills-based resourcing, have not yet been operationalized. This role introduces and stands up those mechanics in practice, in partnership with LEAP, and leads their ongoing evolution as the CoE's portfolio, technology landscape, and business priorities change, particularly as AI reshapes what is possible in learning design and delivery, bringing recommendations to the Senior Director, WWCL Centre of Excellence for endorsement. This includes drawing on workforce strategy and organizational design principles, and partnering with HR and IT, to identify and build net-new approaches where no established methodology yet exists. The BMS-LEAP delivery partnership is itself newly established, having launched within the past year and still in the early stages of piloting what it can reliably deliver for learning content and resources. This role sits at the center of discovering, in practice, how that partnership works for the WWCL portfolio, feeding what is learned back into both the operating model design and Enterprise LEAP performance reporting.
Who you will work with:
This position reports to the Senior Director, Worldwide Commercialization Learning Centre of Excellence.
In this role, the Associate Director partners closely with:
Primary responsibilities:
1. Agile Portfolio Governance & Learning Partner Lead & Operating Model Design
2. Line Management & Flexible Resourcing
3. Operating Model Guardrails & Quality Standards
4. LEAP Partnership & Enterprise Performance Management
5. Continuous Improvement & Reporting
(Disclaimer: The responsibilities listed above are only a summary and other responsibilities will be required as assigned.)
Qualifications:
We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Compensation Overview:
The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.
Benefits:
Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).
U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.
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, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including 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 also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits
How We Work
Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.
Supporting People with Disabilities
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