It Business Partnering

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Director, IT Business Partnering, Cell Therapy Development

Position Responsibilities

Director, IT Business Partnering, Cell Therapy Development (CTD) is accountable for the effective delivery of IT capabilities and services supporting the CTD function within Global Product Development & Supply. This is a senior role partnering with stakeholders across the BMS CTD team to define and drive digital capabilities to meet CTD-specific strategic needs, with a focus on enabling digital capabilities that facilitate genetic vector development and delivery, cell therapy product process and analytical development, analytical therapy strategy, operations testing, product sciences and data analytics, and drug product clinical manufacturing.

This role will be expected to lead and accelerate CTD’s digitization through technology innovation, ensure that CTD information capabilities and operations are reliable, accessible and secure, and enable CTD to become competitively differentiated in a rapidly-changing complex scientific landscape. This role will partner closely with matrixed teams across IT and other Enabling Functions to drive digital innovation and capabilities that deliver business value and advance the CTD mission.

Provide domain leadership:

Owns the IT strategy: Drives the development of realistic and actionable multi-year strategic digital capability roadmaps, informed and prioritized by business and IT in an enterprise context.
Develops compelling business cases: Drives the prioritization and development of strong and clear business cases for digital capability investments in support of the roadmap and aligned with the platform strategy. Defines, measures, & achieves business outcomes.
Brings an external view: Actively maintains awareness of external drivers in the business domain and relevant technology trends, and brings new ideas.
Knows what value looks like: Understands where BMS should be competitively differentiated through technology in CTD, translates business needs into specific business requirements, sees realistic opportunities for IT to add more value, and balances this with a pragmatic understanding of “fitness for purpose.”
Provide strategic leadership:

Builds strong partnerships with senior leaders of CTD: Is viewed by senior CTD business leaders as an effective partner who plans and delivers digital capabilities, safeguards their digital assets and supports their strategic goals.
Recognized as a thought leader and trusted advisor: Influences the strategic thinking of senior business CTD leaders, and helps business leaders to include future digital capabilities into their planning.
Owns the relationship: Has effective working relationships with all relevant business leaders, is deeply involved with key business activities and forums, is responsible for building and managing effective business partnership at all levels during project execution, and takes full accountability for delivering the value proposition of IT.
Drives change: Ensures effective planning, execution and communication of business change management to support digital capability investments, including business process changes to achieve maximum value from investments. Accountable for ensuring an effective change management plan is in place for their individual projects.
Leverages the matrix to drive portfolio execution:

Demonstrates Matrix leadership by ensuring that all IT functions are successful in their delivery of services to CTD. Key internal IT partners include business-aligned IT teams supporting other functions, and IT Core Services and Enterprise Applications & Platforms.
Empowers delivery teams: Understands IT business partner accountabilities throughout the portfolio lifecycle, and builds empowered and trusting partnerships with IT delivery team members at all levels.
Constructively advocates for value: Ensures delivery teams understand how to make the right trade-offs between speed, quality and cost. Connects the business stakeholders with the broader IT services. Ensures value is being captured from the entire lifecycle of the investment (from launch through retirement).
Shows good judgement in communication: Communicates successes and issues accurately, urgently, and to the right audience, and takes accountability for ensuring effective management of expectations with business leaders.
Boldly acts with urgency: Shows courage, tenacity and respect to provoke uncomfortable conversations in order to remove roadblocks to value delivery.