Product Owner, Workday Adaptive Planning

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.

Position Summary

At BMS, digital innovation and Information Technology are central to our vision of transforming patients' lives through science. To accelerate our ability to serve patients around the world, we must unleash the power of technology. We are committed to being at the forefront of transforming the way medicine is made and delivered by harnessing the power of computer and data science, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to promote scientific discovery, faster decision making, and enhanced patient care.

The Product Owner, Workday Adaptive Planning will co-own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for BMS's Workforce Planning capability, built on Workday Adaptive Planning and integrated with Workday HCM — while also hands-on building and maintaining the Adaptive Planning integrations, security/permissions, reports, and dashboards that power it. Having established the foundational platform, this role will drive the next phase of the journey: maturing workforce planning from headcount and budget forecasting toward strategic workforce planning — including scenario-based org design, skills and talent supply/demand analysis, and long-range workforce modeling that directly informs business and talent strategy.

This role partners closely with the business Product Manager, People Organization, and Finance leaders to translate evolving workforce planning needs into a prioritized backlog, and personally builds and maintains the integrations, security, reports, and dashboards that keep the platform accurate, secure, and trusted as the capability matures.

If you want an exciting and rewarding career that is meaningful, consider joining our team!

Key Responsibilities

Workforce Planning Product Strategy

• Co-own, with the business Product Manager, the vision and multi-year roadmap for Strategic Workforce Planning, evolving the capability beyond current-state headcount/budget planning toward scenario planning, org design modeling, and skills/talent-based forecasting.
• Translate People Organization and Finance strategy into workforce planning requirements — e.g., how the business plans headcount, org structure changes, span of control, succession, and talent pipelines — and prioritize these in the Adaptive Planning backlog.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to mature the model (new dimensions, planning versions, scenario types) as the business's workforce planning maturity increases.

Hands-On Build: Integrations, Security, Reports & Dashboards

• Design, build, and maintain integrations between Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning, ensuring accurate, timely data flows for headcount, compensation, organizational dimensions, and planning versions.
• Configure and maintain Adaptive Planning security and permissions — roles, level and version access, and security groups — ensuring the right stakeholders can plan, model, and report at the right level of the organization, and that sensitive workforce data is properly protected.
• Build and maintain reports and dashboards (e.g., Adaptive Discovery Boards, OfficeConnect, Workday reporting) that give HR, Finance, and business leaders visibility into workforce plans, scenarios, and variances.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data quality, integration, security, and calculation issues directly, partnering with Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning admins as needed.
• Continuously enhance existing integrations, security configurations, reports, and dashboards based on stakeholder feedback and evolving workforce planning maturity.

Adaptive Planning Model Design

• Own the backlog and hands-on build for Adaptive Planning models (sheets, dimensions, attributes, versions, assumptions) that represent the organization's workforce structure, positions, and headcount plans.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on cross-system interfaces (e.g., payroll, benefits, time & attendance) that feed or influence workforce planning assumptions, ensuring upstream/downstream data quality.

Governance, Testing & Enablement

• Co-own governance and change control for the workforce planning product — model updates, assumptions, planning calendars, security changes, and integration schedules — aligning with enterprise SDLC and release processes.
• Own and execute testing and deployment (unit, system, UAT, regression) for integrations, security/permission changes, models, reports, and dashboards; ensure planning cycles (budget, forecast, headcount reviews) are supported without disruption.

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