Director, Program Management Planning Systems

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 Director, Development Planning Systems & Tools is a senior business leader who owns the strategy, standards, and roadmap for the systems and tools that Program Managers and Global Program Teams (GPTs) use to plan, monitor, and manage drug development programs in alignment with their Integrated Asset Development Plans (IADPs) and Integrated Project Execution Strategy (IPES). This role sits within the business and acts as the senior business partner and demand owner to BI&T, translating Program Management and portfolio needs into a coherent technology and process strategy that BI&T and other technical partners execute against.

The Director is accountable for the end-to-end planning tools portfolio — including ePlan, adjacent and successor platforms, and any current or emerging system used to build, integrate, and maintain development plans — and for ensuring that portfolio evolves in step with how Program Managers actually plan and manage work against their IADPs and IPES. This is a highly visible role that shapes how planning discipline, data quality, and digital innovation (including AI) show up across the development portfolio, and it carries direct accountability for a team of tool and process owners.

• Business Ownership of the Planning Tools Portfolio Serve as the senior business owner and strategic partner — not a technology owner — for every system or tool that enables Program Managers to plan development programs in line with their Integrated Asset Development Plans (IADPs) and Integrated Project Execution Strategy (IPES), including ePlan (Planisware) and future planning platforms Define and own the multi-year strategy and roadmap for the planning tools portfolio, ensuring it is driven by Program Management, and portfolio needs rather than by technology availability Act as the primary business counterpart to BI&T and other technical delivery partners, translating planning and portfolio requirements into clear business cases, priorities, and success criteria for them to build against Make investment, prioritization, and sequencing decisions across the planning tools portfolio, balancing near‑term Program Manager needs against long‑term platform strategy Alignment to Integrated Asset Development Plans and Integrated Project Execution Strategy (IPES) Ensure every planning tool and system in scope is fit for purpose in helping Program Managers build, maintain, and adapt plans that are fully aligned to their IADPs and IPES.
  
  Partner with Global Program Leads (GPLs), Program Managers, Resource Management, and Portfolio Reporting & Analytics to identify gaps between current tooling and IADP planning needs, and prioritize solutions accordingly Champion standardization of planning templates, data structures, and governance so that plans across programs roll up cleanly into asset- and indication-level views
• AI & Digital Innovation Set the vision and business case for embedding AI‑driven capabilities into planning workflows to improve plan quality, reduce administrative burden, and proactively surface risk Sponsor pilots with BI&T, technology partners, and internal innovation teams, and own the decision on…