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.
Roles & Responsibilities
Sales Crediting Platform Ownership
- Own day-to-day operations and continuous enhancement of the in-house Sales Crediting Platform, ensuring accurate, timely and reliable processing of sales crediting activities.
- Translate business requirements, sales crediting rules and Incentive Compensation processes into technical requirements and implement scalable solutions.
- Develop, maintain and optimize data pipelines, transformations, business rules and validation processes supporting sales crediting.
- Monitor platform performance, identify data/process issues, perform root-cause analysis and drive timely resolution of production issues.
- Partner with Incentive Compensation stakeholders to understand changes in business rules, field force structures, products, territories and crediting methodologies and translate these into platform enhancements.
- Establish robust data quality, validation and reconciliation frameworks to ensure accuracy and completeness of sales crediting outputs.
- Support recurring Incentive Compensation cycles and ensure operational readiness, including testing, validation, deployment and post-production monitoring.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve platform efficiency, scalability and reliability.
Data Engineering & Analytics
- Build and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, validate and integrate data from multiple internal and external sources.
- Work with large and complex datasets using SQL, Python and Databricks to perform data transformation, analysis and troubleshooting.
- Develop reusable data processing and analytical solutions that improve efficiency, reduce manual intervention and enhance data quality.
- Collaborate with Data & Analytics and IT teams to develop and enhance data architecture, pipelines, analytical tools and platform capabilities.
- Perform data profiling, reconciliation, anomaly detection and root-cause analysis across multiple data sources.
- Develop dashboards, reports and analytical outputs where required to monitor sales crediting performance, data quality and operational KPIs.
Technology, Automation & AI
- Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI, GenAI, machine learning, automation and emerging technologies to improve Incentive Compensation and sales crediting processes.
- Explore practical applications of AI for areas such as data validation, anomaly detection, issue identification, process automation, documentation and operational insights.
- Stay current with emerging data engineering, AI and analytics technologies and assess their potential application within the Incentive Compensation ecosystem.
- Continuously challenge existing processes and identify opportunities to make the platform more automated, scalable, intelligent and user-friendly.
Stakeholder & Project Management
- Partner closely with Incentive Compensation, Commercial, IT, Data & Analytics and other cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Communicate complex technical and data concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Manage multiple enhancements, operational priorities and projects while maintaining high standards of quality and execution.
- Lead or contribute to platform enhancement initiatives from requirements gathering through development, testing, deployment and stabilization.
- Collaborate with vendor/partner teams where required and ensure effective knowledge transfer and delivery.
Process & Knowledge Management
- Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, technical documentation, data dictionaries, process maps, business requirements and validation frameworks.
- Establish best practices around data engineering, testing, quality control, change management and platform operations.
- Build strong domain knowledge of Incentive Compensation, sales crediting, commercial operations and relevant business processes.
- Become a subject matter expert on the Sales Crediting Platform and serve as a key point of contact for platform-related questions and issues.
Skills & Competencies
Technical / Data Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL and Python.
- Strong understanding of data engineering concepts including ETL/ELT, data pipelines, data transformation, data quality, data validation and data integration.
- Experience working with Databricks and/or similar cloud-based data platforms.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets and multiple data sources.
- Understanding of data architecture, data modeling and scalable data processing.
- Experience with APIs, cloud technologies, workflow orchestration or CI/CD is a plus.
- Experience with BI/visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar is an advantage.
AI & Emerging Technology
- Strong interest in and practical understanding of AI/GenAI and emerging data technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities to apply AI or automation to improve business processes.
- Experience building or experimenting with AI/GenAI solutions, LLMs, intelligent automation or machine learning is a strong plus.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies quickly is critical for this role.
Business & Analytical Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex business problems into structured technical solutions.
- Ability to understand business rules and translate them into data logic and scalable technical implementations.
- Strong attention to detail, particularly given the financial and field-force impact of sales crediting and Incentive Compensation.
- Ability to investigate ambiguous data issues, identify root causes and develop sustainable solutions.
- Strong business acumen and ability to understand the "why" behind requirements rather than simply executing technical specifications.
Collaboration & Communication
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across a matrix organization.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to take accountability for platform performance and deliverables.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Quick learner with high intellectual curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics or a related discipline.
- 3–6 years of experience in data engineering, data analytics, business intelligence, data platforms or a similar technical role.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL and Python.
- Experience working with Databricks or similar modern data platforms.
- Experience building or managing data pipelines and working with large datasets.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP is an advantage.
- Experience with AI/GenAI, machine learning, automation or modern analytics technologies is strongly preferred.
- Experience in pharmaceutical/biopharma commercial operations, Incentive Compensation, sales crediting, sales operations or field reporting is an advantage but not mandatory.
- Experience with commercial datasets such as sales, prescription, customer, territory, alignment, CRM or field activity data is a plus.
- Experience working with business stakeholders and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
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.
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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R1605919 : Data Analyst II, Incentive Compensation
