DCM Product and Release Management

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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.

The Product and Release Manager works closely with the various stakeholders to align EDEA’s products and platform roadmaps to business needs and monitor successful execution.


Understand the problems and gaps in current portfolio of products

Manage process for developing, prioritizing and communicating vision, strategy, and roadmap to solve the problems

Track timely delivery of commitments and oversee change management around launch of releases

Track that business and budget goals are met

Measure and report on product KPIs


Key Responsibilities and Major Duties:


Participate in strategic planning and demand management activities to develop and evolve roadmaps for portfolio of EDEA data products and underlying technology platforms that balance short-term needs with long term strategies in order and deliver expected benefits and synergy across products.

Work closely with EDEA digital capabilities managers to groom and prioritize the product and platform backlog to ensure roadmap are aligned, defined, and implemented across portfolio.

Define product and platform releases and lead change management activities including communications to stakeholders and enable adoption while minimizing impact.

Maintain EDEA technology inventory and define, track portfolio and product KPIs such as TCOs to enable cost optimization and minimize waste.

Define portfolio and product business plans and ensure that the plans are realized


Degree/Certification/Licensure:


BA/BS (or greater) degree in IS/CS or related disciplines with at least 10 years of experience working in software company or IT organization

Agile Scrum Master/Scrum Product Owner certification and/or SAFe certification

Experience – Responsibility and minimum number of years

7 years of Agile Methodology, Frameworks, and Tools (knowledge of SAFe is a plus)

5 Software portfolio and Product Management experience preferably in the context of data and application integration, data engineering, data-warehousing and analytics

2 years of experience with Program management, business case development and TCO analysis

2 years of experience designing, capturing and analyzing product and marketing metrics, KPIs, and experiments to make product decisions

Strong communication and influencer


Competencies – knowledge, skills, abilities, other:


Preferred pharma experience.

Ability to design and deliver products that delight the users

Familiarity with Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Big Data technology stack

Familiarity with data analytics and machine learning user workflow

Demonstrated ability to make product priority decisions based on data and experiments

Ability to influence DevOps teams, architects and work across multi-disciplined groups.

Strong interpersonal and team building skills, and able to build effective relationships with stakeholders, business partners, external partners and vendors.

Able to effectively partner and collaborate with a broad set of cross functional counterparts (GPS, Commercial, Enabling and R&D) to achieve organizational objectives

Can communicate effectively to audiences with varying degrees of technical knowledge

Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate to a diverse audience at multiple levels within the company through various formats, such as presentations, written proposals, reports, correspondence, leading meetings, face-to-face dialogue etc.

Proven experience operating successfully in a complex organizational environment with internal teams and external partners to optimize solution and value delivery to meet technical requirements

Operate independently within the guidelines of overall position and objectives

Appropriately raise and escalate issues and/or risks and challenge assumptions

Demonstrates a strong attention to detail and a commitment to process quality, continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Confidence in the ability to influence and negotiate desired outcomes

Ensures best practice adoption within area of responsibility, applying appropriate levels of technical capability, standardization and subject matter expertise

Understands, demonstrates, and drives adherence to all BMS operating policies

Leads and continuously develops a diverse team across a complex matrix that has required business knowledge and appropriate skillsets, including recruiting of new team members

Ensures appropriate prioritization, consistent quality and timeliness in delivery to business stakeholders.

Supports and champions a culture of diversity and inclusion

Strong project management and people development skills

Creates energy, excitement & personal investment in others

Creates an environment that encourages continuous improvement, operational excellence, innovation, and informed risk taking

Works across organizational, functional & geographic boundaries including collaboration with third parties (e.g. Accenture, DXC, BT) to achieve company goals

Ability to translate broad strategies into specific objectives & action plans

Makes critical choices that support strategy & ultimately the end-customer

Software that must be used independently and without assistance (e.g., Microsoft Suite)

Jira

Microsoft Office Suite

MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, Teams


Key Stakeholders/Contacts

Strong communication and relationship building skills to establish trust and rapport with:


BMS DCG Delivery leads

EDAE Platform and Engineering Digital Capability Managers

Enterprise Architecture

Enabling IT groups

Technology partners


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.

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