Associate Director, Agile Strategic Learning Lead

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.

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.

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…