IT Business Partner - Data Sciences

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Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global Biopharma company committed to a single mission: to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines focused on helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, immunoscience and fibrosis.

Join us and make a difference. We hire the best people and provide them with a work environment that places a premium on diversity, integrity, collaboration and personal development. Through a culture of inclusion, we create a better, more productive work environment. We believe that the diverse experiences and perspectives of all our employees help to drive innovation and transformative business results.

Accountable to drive digital strategies and the delivery of IT capabilities to achieve defined business outcomes, including the governance of the applicable investment portfolio from ideation to value realization. Responsible for stakeholder management to set the right expectations, and ensure that IT delivery resources are appropriately engaged to fulfill the defined business outcomes. Establish and maintain a collaborative and strategic relationships with a wide range of business and IT leaders. Provide leadership and talent management for direct and matrix teams. Act as the product owner for the Data Sciences business, gather requirements, translate them into actionable user stories and act as the liaison between the business users and the IT build and run teams. This person will also be accountable for the data science product suite including scope definition, requirements, change management and training

Accountable for positioning Bristol Myers Squibb digital business priorities for the function:

Lead and accelerate digitization through technology innovation and ensure the digital capabilities are reliable and secure to enable competitive differentiation.

Drive the development of an actionable multi-year strategic digital strategy and capability roadmaps, informed and prioritized by business and IT in an enterprise context. Prioritize the portfolio appropriately and is accountable for the overall portfolio budget management.

Lead the development of strong business cases for digital capability investments in support of the roadmap and aligned with the platform strategy. Define, measures, & achieves business outcomes for highest value digital capabilities.

Bring an external view by actively maintains awareness of external drivers in the business domain and relevant technology trends.

Understand where BMS should be competitively differentiated through technology, translates business needs into specific business requirements/user stories.

Provide functional strategic leadership and influence:

Build strong partnerships with senior leaders in the business and IT

Influence the strategic thinking of senior business leaders, and lean in to help business leaders to include future digital capabilities into their planning.

Establish an effective working relationships with all relevant business leaders, is deeply involved with key business activities and forums, and takes full accountability for delivering the value proposition of IT.

Drive change through effective planning, execution and communication of business change management to support investments and value realization. Accountable for ensuring an effective change management plan is in place.

Evaluate various technology options including new data science, analytical, computational and visualization software and provide recommendation

Assist data scientists with choice of data sources, technology and tool selection

Ensure all AI/ML solution development is in line with industry standards for data management and privacy compliance including collection, use, storage, access, retention, output, reporting and quality of data

Assist data scientists in their needs with a strong understanding of advanced machine learning including neural networks, NLP and variety of classification & predictive algorithms

Leverage the matrix to get things done:

Understand the business partner accountabilities throughout the plan/build/run cycle, and build partnerships with IT teams

Constructively advocate for value by ensuring IT has the right balance of trade-offs between speed, quality and cost.

Connect & educate the business stakeholders on the IT capabilities & services.

Communicate successes and issues to the right audience, and take responsibility for resolution and management of expectations across stakeholders.

Provide strong and supportive management of team members

Mentor and develop staff to achieve and exceed performance, and to sustain talent pipeline for the future.

Required:

Strong domain expertise in the application of IT capabilities to drive business value, including a broad understanding of business processes for one or more core business functions (e.g. Research and Development, Manufacturing, Finance, HR, other)

Track record of leading the analysis of complex and ambiguous business needs, and integrating those into compelling and actionable strategic plans and investment business cases with global reach and impact.

Track record of delivering high-value digital capability projects within timelines and budget.

Demonstrated commitment to creative thinking and applying innovative technologies to use cases, in achieving a balance between pragmatic value and transformation.

Proven ability to drive efficiencies and strategic synergies across IT functions and platforms.

Ideal Candidates Would Also Have:

Experience of large-scale SaaS deployments, and how to work with SaaS partners to ensure maximum value and effectiveness.

Seasoned direct and matrix management skills, with a particular emphasis on energizing and developing talent.

Working knowledge of agile methodologies applied to SDLC and IT services.

Ideal Candidates Would Also Have one or more of the following:

Good knowledge/experience in data science technologies (Python, R, SAS, building models, dashboard analytics, etc.)

Machine/Deep Leaning – machine learning algorithms and platforms, neural network

Language – Natural language Processing, classification etc.

Experience in key AI platforms such as AWS sagemaker

Experience in key machine learning and deep learning framework e.g. Tensorflow

Experience in working on enterprise software products leveraging AI/Machine Learning technology

Experience in understanding data and information technology including Big Data trends

Experience working in a DevOps environment & using industry standard tools like GIT, JIRA etc.

Bristol-Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Company info

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Website : http://www.bms.com