Director, Worldwide Commercialization Skills, Commercialization Learning, Centre of Excellence

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Director, Worldwide Commercialization Skills, Commercialization Learning, Centre of Excellence

What we are looking for:

The Worldwide Commercialization Learning (WWCL) Centre of Excellence is seeking a strategic, enterprise-minded leader to serve as Director, Worldwide Commercialization Skills.

This role provides end-to-end leadership for the commercialization skills strategy across Field, Medical, Market Access, and Home Office roles within the Commercialization organization, inclusive of CASA (Commercialization AI Strategy & Analytics).

This role represents an evolution of the Commercialization Skills remit to align with BMS's AI-enabled commercialization model and the Global Capability Centre (GCC), known internally as Learning Excellence & Advancement Partner (LEAP). The Director will translate business strategy, AI-powered capabilities, and organizational priorities into scalable skills, pathways, and enablement that drive sustained behavior change, readiness, and performance.

Who you will work with:

This position reports to the Senior Director, Worldwide Commercialization Learning, Centre of Excellence. In this role, the Director will partner closely with senior leaders across CASA, Medical, Market Access, Marketing, and Field organizations globally, as well as Enterprise Learning leaders and the Global Capability Centre (LEAP), to ensure an integrated, scalable approach to commercialization capability development.

Primary responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve the Worldwide Commercialization Skills strategy, aligned to enterprise commercialization priorities, CASA's AI-enabled operating model, and LEAP service guardrails.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for commercialization skills across Field, Medical, Market Access, and Headquarters roles, reducing duplication and increasing stakeholder clarity.
• Act as the Learning Partner Lead for Worldwide Commercialization, owning portfolio-level learning demand planning, prioritization, and routing of work to LEAP in line with enterprise standards.
• Define annual and multi-year demand plans for commercialization skills, balancing strategic initiatives, run-the-business needs, and capacity trade-offs.
• Provide portfolio-level governance for LEAP-delivered work, ensuring quality, compliance, consistency, and alignment to commercialization skills standards.
• Escalate enterprise-impacting prioritization, capacity, or delivery risks through the LEAP Interlock Lead and appropriate governance forums.
• Partner with CASA leaders to translate AI products, analytics, and insights into role-based capability frameworks, learning pathways, and enablement.
• Lead and develop a team of Associate Directors and Senior Managers responsible for commercialization skills, curriculum pathways, and leadership development.
• Ensure global scalability and consistency of skills frameworks and learning models while enabling appropriate local flexibility.
• Embed learning at moments that matter by integrating skills development into business workflows, platforms, and AI-enabled tools.
• Define and track success metrics, leveraging data and analytics to evaluate capability uplift, adoption, and business impact.
• Act as a senior thought partner and advisor to commercialization leaders on capability, readiness, and change as the organization continues to evolve.
• (Disclaimer: The responsibilities listed above are only a summary and other responsibilities will be required as assigned.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.
• 10+ years of exp