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Position Summary (Role purpose and objectives)

This new Benelux role within the Strategy & Operations team will bridge business strategy, data science, advanced data analytics and commercial operations to   accelerate and improve decision making on how our Benelux organization operates and delivers value.

The focus is on accelerating and maximizing business impact, identifying untapped business opportunities, and deploying innovative capabilities such as AI and advanced analytics. The role acts as the Benelux connection to global (WW) functions, ensuring alignment, knowledge exchange, and representation of local needs.
Additionally, the role leads acquisition and management of external data assets and digital health projects, positioning Benelux as a frontrunner in customer-centric, data-driven engagement and innovation.

The role is office-based in Utrecht (NL) and Braine l’Alleud (BE), with regular transfers between both sites.

Key Responsibilities

Build, implement and maintain the Benelux data strategy, covering both internal and external datasets.

• Develop and implement robust processes to ensure data quality, integrity, security, and regulatory compliance across countries and across departments.
• Build and execute the strategy for external data acquisition, ensuring alignment with business priorities and growth ambitions.
• Champion a data-driven culture across the Benelux organization.
• Represent Benelux needs within global and regional data initiatives, ensuring strong connectivity with enterprise frameworks.

Develop data-driven capabilities to enable optimized customer engagement in Benelux, across therapeutic areas and stakeholder groups.

• In close collaboration with BI&T, exploit available datasets to the full and convert them into immediately actionable business insights, ensuring engagement activities are tightly linked to sales objectives and market growth potential.
• Provide insights and tools to field leads (commercial, medical and access), to optimize practices in the field, advanced segmentation, and efficient resource allocation. Develops tools to monitor the compliance to best practices and business rules.
• Identify new engagement opportunities to unlock business potential, particularly for growth brands, with emphasis on AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
• Influence senior stakeholders with actionable strategies and evidence-based recommendations.
• Ensure all activities comply with ethical standards, regulatory requirements, and data privacy legislation.

Lead digital health projects that create new opportunities for engagement, value delivery, and differentiation.

• Shape and execute the digital health vision and roadmap in Benelux, identifying opportunities, design and implement impactful projects (including pilots), delivering measurable business and patient value.
• Build expertise, partnerships, and internal capabilities in digital health: scout and evaluate innovative solutions, collaborate cross-functionally (medical, commercial, BI&T, MAx), and foster knowledge sharing to embed digital health in everyday business practices.
• Ensure compliance and market readiness: navigate regulatory, data privacy, and reimbursement requirements, while driving adoption of digital health solutions that strengthen customer engagement and brand performance.
• Represent BMS in external forums and industry associations: actively contributing to digital health workgroups of pharma.be and VIG, shaping the local ecosystem and advocating for the company’s position.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Business acumen, linking strategy to sales performance and business growth.