Vice President, Competitive Intelligence & Strategic Foresight

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Position: Vice President, Competitive Intelligence & Strategic Foresight

Location: Lawrenceville, NJ

Position Summary

The Vice President, Competitive Intelligence & Strategic Foresight is a senior, enterprise‑facing leader in Portfolio Strategy, accountable for strengthening Bristol Myers Squibb’s understanding of the global competitive environment across oncology, hematology, neuroscience, immunology, and cardiovascular. This leader sets the vision, operating model, and standards for how next‑generation intelligence and foresight are generated, synthesized, and applied—translating complex, multi‑source signals into clear implications and decisions that shape pipeline, portfolio, commercial strategy, launch planning, and business development.

As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, this role leads a globally distributed CI and foresight organization and ensures insights are proactively embedded in key enterprise and Therapeutic Area decisions, with initial emphasis on advancing enterprise impact through a clear service model, modernizing CI through AI‑enabled capabilities, and scaling impact through standardized methods, reusable products, and self‑service tools for TA teams and enterprise‑wide ways of working.

The Vice President will set and sustain a high bar for executive‑ready products, strengthen governance and stakeholder partnerships, and foster a rigorous, ethical intelligence culture, with accountability for the continued maturation and evolution of CI and foresight as a core enterprise capability, ensuring sustained relevance and impact as strategy, portfolio priorities, and the external environment evolve.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy, Leadership & Operating Model

• Define and champion the long-term global vision, operating model, and standards for Competitive Intelligence (CI) & Strategic Foresight, aligned to BMS enterprise strategy and growth objectives.

• Embed competitive and foresight insights into TA and Disease Area strategies, enterprise portfolio tradeoffs, and program-level investment decisions—ensuring intelligence is decision-integrated and action-oriented.

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the BMS Leadership Team, Enterprise Strategy Office, Therapeutic Area leadership, and the Board on competitive dynamics, market inflection points, and strategic risks and opportunities.

• Set a modernization agenda that advances BMS toward best-in-class, AI-enabled CI capabilities and measurable enterprise impact.

Competitive Intelligence & Landscape Excellence

• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of rigorous, ethically sourced competitive intelligence covering competitor pipelines, clinical development, launches, pricing and market access strategies, and digital engagement approaches.

• Conduct deep therapeutic area landscape analyses; identify and articulate differentiation strategies, target product profile vulnerabilities, emerging threats, and whitespace opportunities.

• Integrate primary expert intelligence, secondary data, field insights, and foresight outputs into unified, coherent, decision-ready products tailored for use in governance forums and TA decision-making.

• Lead competitor intent and early signal analyses to anticipate pipeline prioritization, launch strategies, lifecycle management decisions, and business development intent ahead of public disclosure.

• Provide timely insights on competitor clinical trial design, site strategy, patient enrollment, and regulatory engagement to inform BMS program and TA strategies.

Executive-Ready Insights, Deliverables & Governance

• Lead enterprise conference intelligence across major medical, scientific, and commercial congresses, translating real-time signals into implications for pipeline, portfolio prioritization, and competitive positioning.

• Oversee peer-company monitoring (including quarterly earnings), assessing strategic intent, R&D prioritization shifts, capital allocation signals, and implications for BMS.

• Develop dashboards, briefing materials, and decision memos that support Leadership Team, Investor Relations, and Board engagements.

• Ensure CI outputs include a clear “so what” and explicit options/tradeoffs tailored to TA leadership, GPTs, and governance forums.

Strategic Foresight, AI Enablement & Operational Excellence

• Build and operationalize a structured strategic foresight capability, including scenario planning, horizon scanning, and signal detection across science, technology, regulation, and the competitive environment.

• Define and deliver an AI-first CI strategy that accelerates collection, monitoring, synthesis, and insight generation through advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.

• Oversee the development and scaling of next-generation CI capabilities (e.g., automated landscape monitoring, competitor-intent models, and scenario generation).

• Establish enterprise-wide methodologies, tools, platforms, and processes that enable efficient intelligence sharing and knowledge management.

• Ensure CI activities and primary research are conducted in full compliance with BMS ethical standards, PhRMA guidelines, IP protection policies, and the Code of Business Conduct, in partnership with CI Operations, Legal, and Compliance.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Team Leadership

• Partner with Portfolio Strategy, TA Leadership Teams, GPTs, and leaders across R&D, Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Finance, and Legal to embed intelligence into critical decision processes.

• Act as a strategic partner to global brand and asset teams, supporting launch readiness, lifecycle management, and portfolio prioritization.

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing, globally distributed CI & foresight organization with clear roles, ways of working, and development pathways.

• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, intellectual curiosity, and continuous improvement; coach and develop talent through targeted capability-building.

• Own budget management and cultivate innovative external partnerships to extend reach and impact.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Advanced degree required: M.S., Ph.D., Pharm.D., or M.D. in a life sciences discipline, or an MBA from a top-tier institution with a strong scientific foundation.

• Dual credentials (e.g., Ph.D. + MBA) are a strong differentiator

Experience

• 15+ years of progressive experience in competitive intelligence, strategic market insights, corporate strategy, or management consulting, including significant biopharmaceutical experience.

• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading global teams and influencing senior stakeholders.

• Demonstrated track record of influencing high-stakes decisions (e.g., pipeline investments, launch strategy, and business development) through rigorous, decision-ready competitive intelligence.

• Deep therapeutic area expertise in one or more of BMS’s core areas: oncology, hematology, neuroscience, immunology, or cardiovascular.

• Prior experience in a VP-level or equivalent senior strategic leadership role within biopharma or a top-tier healthcare consultancy strongly preferred

Technical Skills

• Mastery of qualitative and quantitative CI methods, including primary and secondary research, win/loss analysis, scenario planning, and competitive benchmarking.

• Strong command of CI platforms and data sources (e.g., Evaluate Pharma, IQVIA, GlobalData, Citeline, PubMed, SEC filings, clinical trial registries)

• Proficiency in advanced analytics, data visualization, and executive storytelling.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strategic Thinker: Exceptional ability to synthesize ambiguity into clear implications, options, and recommendations.

• Executive Presence: Proven ability to influence and advise senior leaders with credibility and clarity.

• Collaborative Leader: Demonstrated success driving alignment in highly matrixed, global organizations.

• Communication Excellence: Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication; able to deliver a compelling, evidence-based narrative.

• Change Leader: Proven ability to modernize capabilities, implement new operating models, and build strong executive alignment and trust through measurable impact.

• Ethical Integrity: Deep understanding of and commitment to legal and ethical boundaries governing competitive intelligence collection and use

• Resilient & Agile: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving competitive environment with multiple simultaneous priorities

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

$307,190 - $372,242

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience. 

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
 

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.

• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

​Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)

• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown. 

*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

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