Senior Manager, Business Analyst & Scrum Master

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:

Seeking a Senior Manager to lead and support delivery for the field sales force platform portfolio (e.g., Veeva CRM, orchestration, territory management, call planning, and incentive compensation systems) within Commercialization BI&T. This role owns delivery leadership for one or more Sales Systems programs — working across business analysis, Scrum, development, and vendor teams to ensure requirements, agile delivery, and platform governance come together into timely, efficient, on-quality outcomes. The candidate partners directly with sales operations and field leadership to shape the platform roadmap, drives alignment across the cross-functional teams involved in delivery, and removes cross-team obstacles that put program timelines at risk. The ideal candidate brings strong cross-functional program leadership, hands-on familiarity with field sales technology platforms, and the commercial pharma processes they support (territory alignment, call activity, sample management, and rep-facing tools), and is comfortable operating as both a delivery leader and a strategic business partner to senior sales operations and field leadership stakeholders. Experience with Jira for backlog and delivery tracking is expected, in service of this role's core program-leadership and stakeholder-facing accountability.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Business Analysis Oversight:

• Own the requirements strategy for field sales force platforms; oversee elicitation, documentation, and validation of business requirements led by the BA team.

• Ensure functional specifications, process maps, data mappings, and user stories produced by the team are clear, traceable, and sprint-ready before entering delivery.

• Guide current-state and future-state process analysis for field sales workflows, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and platform enhancement opportunities.

• Ensure business requirements documentation (BRDs, functional specs, process maps) is owned, maintained, and traceable from requirement to delivered feature.

2. Agile Delivery & Scrum Governance:

• Oversee Scrum ceremonies and agile delivery practice (stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives) across field sales platform delivery teams; ensure consistent, effective application of agile methodology.

• Maintain oversight of sprint boards and delivery tracking in Jira; ensure stakeholders have clear visibility into progress on field sales platform initiatives.

• Establish and refine standard operating practices for backlog grooming, prioritization, and sprint readiness across the team.

3. Platform Strategy & Subject-Matter Leadership:

• Maintain a strategic, cross-platform view of field sales force technology (territory/alignment structures, call activity capture, CRM data models) and how it supports rep-facing and field leadership workflows.

• Partner with platform administrators and vendors (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce) on the evaluation of proposed changes for feasibility, downstream data impact, and field user experience.

• Define and drive the field sales platform roadmap, recommending improvements based on field feedback, usage data, and industry best practices for field sales technology.

4. Stakeholder Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership:

• Serve as the primary point of accountability and trusted business partner to sales operations, field leadership, and commercial stakeholders on field sales platform initiatives.

• Represent Commercialization BI&T in senior stakeholder discussions; influence and align sales operations, field leadership, data teams, and technical delivery teams around platform priorities.

• Maintain clear, structured executive communication, providing regular updates to PMO leadership, sales operations, and senior management on requirements status, delivery progress, risks, and issues.

5. Continuous Improvement & Governance:

• Facilitate retrospectives and requirements-review sessions across the team to identify and drive improvements in both business analysis practice and delivery execution.

• Establish and continuously refine standards for business analysis and field sales platform delivery to increase efficiency and data quality.

6. Performance Tracking, Risk Management & Reporting:

• Own reporting on requirements delivery, platform adoption, and data quality metrics for the field sales platform portfolio.

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