Director, Digital Health Strategy and Operations

Overview

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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, spanning early diagnosis, patient engagement, AI-enabled evidence generation, and digital biomarkers, are prioritized, funded, governed, and executed with rigor. The role will focus on deployment of digital solutions at scale in clinical care environments.

The Director, Digital Health Strategy & Operations 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; ensuring strategy, execution, and storytelling are tightly connected 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 standardized leadership reporting and storytelling to improve transparency, alignment, and confidence in Digital Health delivery.
• Strengthen how Digital Health value is understood across BMS, reinforcing credibility and enterprise trust.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree required
• Advanced degree (MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, MS or equivalent) strongly preferred

Experience

• 10+ years of experience across strategy, operations, digital health, life sciences, clinical operations, or healthcare leadership
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional portfolios in a matrixed, global organization
• Experience leading or supporting digital initiatives embedded in clinical care delivery (e.g., clinical decision support, workflow tools, patient monitoring, care coordination platforms)
• Familiarity with regulated digital health solutions (e.g., SaMD, digital therapeutics, real-world data platforms)
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions without direct line authority.

Core Capabilities

• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline and bias for outcomes.
• Deep experience in portfolio governance, KPI definition, and performance management.
• Strong financial and operational acumen, including prioritization and value realization.
• Exceptional executive communication skills—able to make complex topics clear, concise, and decision-ready.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, innovation, and competing priorities.
• High credibility with scientific, clinical, technical, and business stakeholders, with a high bar for delivery.

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Compensation & Benefits

Compensation Overview

Princeton - NJ - US $189,890 - $230,102. The starting compensation range for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities may be available. Final compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.

Eligibility for specific benefits varies by job and location. For more on benefits, visit the Careers site.

• Health Coverage, Wellbeing, Financial Well-being and Protection

Work-life Benefits

• Paid Time Off and holiday allocations; details vary by location.

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Additional Information

Support & Accessibility

BMS is committed to an accessible recruitment process and reasonable accommodations. Contact for accommodations. Review our Equal Employment Opportunity statement on the Careers site.

Data Protection

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