Director, Cycle Assessment & Product Stewardship

Posted October 2, 2026# Director, Life Cycle Assessment & Product Stewardship New Brunswick, United States Full time

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This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and passionate team that is focused on being a world class Product Stewardship group within Bristol Myers Squibb's Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability Enablement organization. As a member of the Product Stewardship group, the successful applicant will be primarily responsible for the technical execution of Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) /Life Cycle Assessment (LCAs), as well as development of the PCF/LCA multi-year strategy advising where the company invests, development of digital PCF/LCA tools, how PCF LCA is embedded into product development and procurement decisions, and how we engage suppliers and external standards bodies.

The successful candidate will be the internal authority on product environmental foot printing and the person who turns it from a set of one-off studies into a scalable, decision-grade capability. In addition to working on PCFs/LCAs, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to help operationalize other Product Stewardship regulations across the business. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to participate in other aspects of the Product Stewardship program (e.g., global research projects, environmental support of sites, extended producer responsibility, chemical registrations, hazard communication) as time permits.

This role will also act as a primary back up for the Product Stewardship Lead.
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* Key Responsibilities:

** Serve as BMS's subject-matter expert and strategic lead for LCAs and PCFsBuild, run, and critically review cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave LCAs/PCFs for BMS Products that are audit-ready and third-party-verifiable.

Build the internal operating model: governance, standard methodologies, digital tools, data-management systems, and the tools and training that let non-specialists across the company use PCF/LCA outputs

Own PCF/LCA technology implementation and lifecycle, including guiding the maturing Watershed platform on tool design, data quality, and fit to evolving business and regulatory needs

Translate external product-stewardship regulations/mandates into executable internal programs and repeatable workflows

Represent BMS in industry work streams/projects

Work with the Environment and Sustainability Enablement (ESE) group to embed life cycle thinking into design, formulation, packaging, device, and sourcing decisions early enough to change outcomes, and build a roadmap for how LCA/PCF informs development.
** Qualifications &

Experience:

** Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D. preferred) in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, industrial ecology, chemistry, or a related field, or a bachelor's degree with equivalent demonstrated LCA/PCF experience
10+ years of relevant industrial experience, including demonstrated, hands-on delivery of cradle-to-grave life cycle assessments and product carbon footprints; pharmaceutical, biotech or life sciences industry experience is a plus;
Engagement with pharma-sector harmonization efforts is a plus.

Working fluency in the governing standards: ISO 14040/14044 (LCA), ISO 14067 (product carbon footprint), and the GHG Protocol Product Standard, with familiarity with the pharma-specific PAS 2090:2025 product category rules and the French  medicine carbon score  methodology.

Hands-on proficiency with recognized LCA software (e.g., Sima Pro, GaBi) and life cycle inventory databases (e.g., ecoinvent). Familiarity with Watershed…