Director, Cell Therapy Competitive Intelligence

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Position Summary

The Director of Cell Therapy (CT) Competitive Intelligence (CI) leads all aspects of a comprehensive CI program based on an internal consultative engagement with ~10+ stakeholders to strategically support BMS’ cell therapy portfolio. This role provides strategic guidance and oversees the planning and dissemination of competitive intelligence. Delivers timely, relevant, strategic intelligence to cross-functional stakeholders through effective communication of intelligence, manages external CI vendors/partners, and leverages relevant internal tools and platforms (including genAI tools). This role reports to the Executive Director, Competitive Intelligence and acts as the lead across all Cell Therapy CI initiatives, including providing ongoing coaching, feedback, and guidance to a few indirect reports.

This position resides within the Applied Intelligence and Analytics (AI&A) team within the broader Business Insights and Technology organization. AI&A helps BMS navigate uncertainty with data-driven and innovative analytical and insight solutions, serving as a trusted and objective strategic partner for our stakeholders. We deliver transformative value through customer voice, data, advanced analytics, and actionable intelligence. Our teams collaborate with stakeholders across the organization, and we impact multiple aspects of the business, including Enterprise, Commercial, Development, and Global Product Supply. We invite exceptional candidates to join our best-in-class team to develop innovative capabilities and solutions, and to fulfil BMS’ vision of transforming patients’ lives and delivering more medicines to patients faster.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads all elements of internal Competitive Intelligence (CI) model for BMS’ Cell Therapy (CT) franchise based on consultative engagement with key stakeholders, leading internal intelligence networks, coordinating the communication of intelligence, leading external CI vendors/partners, and leveraging relevant internal tools and platforms.

• Conducts analysis and research based on stakeholder-driven key intelligence questions while adhering to consistency and set standards across BMS.

• Builds relationships and effectively influences all senior management stakeholders to advance the culture of insight-enabled decision making.

• Identifies, gathers, synthesizes, and distills information/intelligence into key insights across the cell therapy portfolio and in partnership with cross matrix business partners.

• Advances initiatives, applies successful pilots across Cell Therapy and ensures consistency amongst strategic CI capabilities (e.g., field intelligence synthesis, congress coverage, competitive simulation workshops).

• Translates insights into actionable recommendations for US and WW Commercial, Strategy, Medical, and in support of EA and BP initiatives.

• Maintains forensics capability (asymmetric intelligence) via extrapolation, triangulation and internal expert validation.

• Executes all projects within budget assigned, in a timely fashion, making tradeoffs as necessary.

• Ensures appropriate dissemination of, and access to, competitive intelligence so it may be fully leveraged to answer strategic questions.

• Demonstrates, and holds others accountable to high standards of business integrity.

• Responds to senior-level ad-hoc business questions with expert analysis and timely delivery.

• Assesses vendor capabilities by research type and strives to define most effective CI model to drive efficiencies, prioritization, and simplification across the CT commercialization CI team.

• Leads Cell Therapy CI indirect reports, balancing