Executive Director, Medical Communications & Digital Excellence

Princeton, NJPosted Jul 17, 2026
Working with Us Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible. 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 with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us. Position Summary The Executive Director, Medical Communications & Digital Excellence is a transformative enterprise leadership role within the Medical Excellence organization at Bristol Myers Squibb. This leader is accountable for one unified, high-performing team formed through the integration of Medical Communications Excellence and Medical Digital Engagement — creating a cohesive, customer-focused capability that elevates BMS's scientific communications across all channels, both traditional and digital. A critical dimension of this role is serving as the enterprise center of excellence for Medical Communications — elevating the scientific narrative strategies developed within each Therapy Area, ensuring they are translated into compelling, consistent, and measurable communications across channels. This leader partners closely with TA-embedded Medical Communications leads to strengthen scientific storytelling, optimize ways of working, and pull strategy through into integrated digital execution and measurement. By fusing deep scientific expertise with cutting-edge digital strategies, this leader will ensure a consistent, impactful, and compliant OneBMS voice across all medical communication touchpoints — spanning publications, medical education, content development, omni-channel engagement, and social media. Key Responsibilities: * Reports to the Vice President, Head of Medical Excellence and serves as a member of the Medical Excellence Leadership Team * Leads the organizational integration of Medical Communications Excellence and Medical Digital Engagement into a single, high-performing team — establishing a unified culture, shared operating model, and clear roles and accountabilities that leverage the full capability of both organizations * Serves as the enterprise center of excellence and trusted strategic advisor to TA-embedded Medical Communications leads — elevating scientific narrative strategies, strengthening communications standards, and ensuring enterprise-wide consistency in how BMS tells its scientific story across assets and indications * Establishes enterprise standards, frameworks, and best practices for scientific narrative development — ensuring TA Medical Communications teams have the tools, guidance, and strategic support to develop differentiated, evidence-based narratives that resonate with HCPs, patients, and payers * Drives the pull-through of TA scientific strategies into integrated digital channel execution — ensuring scientific narratives developed at the asset level are amplified, personalized, and measured across web, social media, digital medical education, and congress digital channels * Develops and implements a unified strategy for medical communications and digital engagement, integrating content and engagement insights from customers (HCPs, patients, payers) to ensure a data-driven, customer-focused approach to scientific communications and channel strategy * Develops and implements comprehensive end-to-end strategies for optimizing external medical communications,...

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