Sr. Director, Global Business Operations - Advanced Capabilities COE

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. The Senior Director, Global Business Operations - Advanced Capabilities COE Lead, oversees the Innovation and Process Excellence COE (also known as the Advanced Capabilities CoE) and Incubator to identify, pilot, and scale emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI, automation, advanced analytics) that unlocks new value for Finance. This person holds a pivotal leadership role influencing process excellence and digital leadership across the GBO organization globally. This leader will serve as the primary technology and process excellence point of contact for GBO globally including the GBO senior leadership. The Senior Director will be the primary GBO partner to the BI&T organization ensuring the development and implementation of a technology roadmap for the function. This leader will translate GBO strategic priorities into a clear performance reporting, analytics and capabilities roadmap, oversees end-to-end delivery, and ensures sustainable operations leveraging a Hyderabad-based team. The position accelerates digital proficiency and AI utilization across Finance, partnering with BI&T to stand up scalable products, governed processes, and measurable value realization. This leader will also serve as a player-coach, driving change and enterprise strategy across various US-based stakeholders and teams. Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Strategy & Roadmap : Partner with the Head of GBO in Hyderabad and the GBO LT to define the multi-year performance reporting and decision analytics/capabilities roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities and initiatives, investment cycles, and risk posture for GBO globally. Innovation Incubator : Establish and lead an Innovation Incubator for GBO across the world, in consultation with the Head of GBO - scanning emerging technologies, prioritizing high-impact use cases, and working with BI&T to convert successful pilots into production capabilities. Product Ownership & Delivery : Act as business product owner for Finance analytics platforms/workflows and AI solutions; prioritize features, write problem statements, and manage backlogs with BI&T; ensuring secure, compliant delivery. Portfolio & Governance : Key stakeholder with portfolio governance and prioritization process for GBO ensuring capabilities, benefits and eAorts against targets are delivered. Data Science Capabilities : This leader will be responsible to stand up a data science team in Hyderabad, design and develop their charter and transform this into a SWAT capability to operate across various finance teams. EPM : This leader will be responsible for working closely with the EPM leads, GPOs and Data & Digital Strategy Leads to ensure optimal design and implementation of the EPM, Data and Digital framework. In addition, this role will be responsible for managing the post implementation governance, operations and cadence for all GPOs, Data, Digitaland EPM related activities. Data & Digital Strategy : This leader will be responsible to partner with GBO leaders and team in designing, scaling, taking forward, enhancing and driving a consistent data and digital strategy for GBO. BI&T Engagement : This leader will be responsible for managing the relationship between the GBO and BIT& organizations to ensure that the technology needs of the GBO are adequately met. This role will be required to closely partner with the SVP and VP of Enterprise IT and other BIT leaders to ensure the above goals