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The Director, Talent Management Lead, R&D is a strategic leader responsible for driving the organization's talent agenda to achieve impactful business outcomes. This role partners closely with HR Business Partners, the functional LT member and their Leadership team, and Centers of Excellence (CoE) to translate enterprise people strategy into actionable workforce and talent initiatives for the business. The Director serves as a proactive advisor, ensuring the organization is equipped with the workforce of the future, and is accountable for developing and executing integrated talent management strategies that foster growth, performance, engagement, and retention. The Head of Talent Management takes a holistic approach to the talent landscape, identifying, attracting, and nurturing our most critical talent to unlock their full potential and drive meaningful impact. By mitigating risk and minimizing business disruption, this role delivers purpose-driven, data-informed, and seamlessly integrated talent solutions that accelerate the realization of critical business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

+ Serve as a strategic partner to HRBP Leads and their Leadership Teams, translating the enterprise people strategy into a business-focused, integrated functional talent strategy and agenda.

+ Integrate strategic workforce planning by identifying critical priorities and developing a forward-thinking talent strategy, including the identification of future workforce needs and digital capabilities and driving transformations.

+ Partner with People Science, HRBPs, and CoEs to synthesize data from various sources (e.g., Talent Acquisition, employee surveys, organizational health, performance, people analytics) to drive focused efforts, communicate a cohesive talent narrative and monitor org talent health and impact.

+ Partner with HRBPs and key Business Leaders to build the strategic talent agenda and talent rhythm and build their talent capability while executing against it. Hold regular functional talent review meetings that foster talent sharing across the business with appropriate follow-through to deliver on intended measurable outcomes.

+ Provide a comprehensive view of critical talent pools from both internal and external perspectives, proactively managing talent movement and succession planning for LT, enterprise and functional critical roles and talent pools.

+ Lead collaboration across Centers of Excellence across including both Talent & Inclusion and Talent Rewards, to support HRBPs in delivering end-to-end solutions for priority talent needs.

+ Know the business and enterprise critical role talent and pipeline in the organization and enable their growth, performance, engagement and retention

+ Manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously, ensuring flawless execution and alignment with business objectives.

+ Benchmark externally to determine best in class approaches in support of our integrated talent strategy.

Required Experience and Qualifications

+ Bachelor's degree in HR/IO psych, or a related field.

+ Proven experience leading workforce, talent, and leadership strategy delivery and execution in a client aligned capacity (TM Lead or HRBP)- previous experience supporting R&D/Scientific Leaders preferred.

+ Demonstrated excellence in communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels.

+ Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, address root cause of problems and drive outcome focused solutions.

+ Deep understanding of the business and the critical roles that drive enterprise success, with the ability to enable talent growth and retention.

+ High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation with the ability to simultaneously manage deadlines for a variety of initiatives against competing 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.

Compensation Overview:

Madison - Giralda - NJ - US: $189,890 - $230,102

Princeton - NJ - US: $189,890 - $230,102

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 then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year's holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition 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.

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 [email protected] . Visit careers.bms.com/ (https://careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility) eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

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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**Company:** Bristol-Myers Squibb

**Req Number:** R1596936

**Updated:** 2025-11-21 04:23:47.617 UTC

**Location:** Princeton LVL-NJ

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, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.