Director, Digital Health Strategy and Operations

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Position Summary:  

The Director, Digital Health Strategy & Operations is a strategic leadership role responsible for shaping, operationalizing, and governing the enterprise Digital Health portfolio at BMS. Reporting to the Vice President, IT Digital Health, this role acts as the strategic integrator and execution engine for a single, enterprise-wide Digital Health organization serving all of BMS. 

The role ensures that Digital Health initiatives, that  span early diagnosis, patient engagement, AI-enabled evidence generation, and digital biomarkers, are prioritized, funded, governed, and executed with rigor. The role will have particular focus on ensuring the deployment of digital solutions at scale in clinical care environments.

The Director, Digital Health Strategy & Operations also owns the performance management and communication spine of Digital Health: defining outcome-based KPIs, tracking portfolio value, and translating complex work into clear, executive-ready narratives that improve visibility, decision-making, and organizational alignment and ensure that strategy, execution, and storytelling are tightly connected and consistently landed across the enterprise. 

Key Responsibilities:

Digital Health Strategy & Portfolio Leadership: 

• Partner with the Digital Health team to shape and execute the enterprise Digital Health strategy and roadmap across R&D, Medical and Commercial.

• Translate strategic priorities into a focused portfolio of initiatives and lead portfolio governance for Digital Health, including initiative intake, prioritization, investment decisions, and lifecycle management.

• Drive the deployment and adoption of digital health initiatives, including hospital- and health system–level deployments at scale 

• Establish deployment strategies and playbooks that align with clinical workflows, care pathways, and operational realities in hospital settings, including change management and post-launch optimization

• Develop business cases, investment theses, and value frameworks that incorporate clinical, operational, and economic outcomes

• Drive the leadership operating rhythm, including strategic planning, governance forums, portfolio reviews, and team engagements, ensuring clarity on priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs.

• Act as a force multiplier for the team by ensuring alignment between strategy, portfolio execution, metrics, and communication. 

Execution Excellence & Value Realization: 

• Define and own outcome-based KPIs that measure Digital Health impact (e.g., patient outcomes, time to diagnosis, trial efficiency, adoption, scalability, value realization).

• Drive consistent execution standards across pilots, scale-ups, and enterprise deployments.

• Proactively identify and resolve execution bottlenecks, interdependencies, and misalignments that slow delivery or dilute impact. 

Executive Communication & Enterprise Narrative: 

• Own and elevate the Digital Health communication strategy, ensuring consistent, high-quality, executive-ready messaging.

• Translate complex portfolios, technologies, and partnerships into clear narratives that articulate progress, impact, risks, and decisions.

• Develop st