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BMS is seeking an IT Business Partner for Japan to oversee the effective delivery of IT capabilities and services that most significantly drive business growth within the market. Join us in advancing patient outcomes through leveraging state-of-the-art technologies.

In this role, you will collaborate with various business teams to define and implement digital solutions aligned with their strategic objectives. Reporting to the Australia and New Zealand IT Business Partner Lead, you will support the local execution of the enterprise IT/Digital strategy. This position focuses on accelerating business digitization through technological innovation, ensuring operations and information systems are reliable, accessible, and secure enabling a competitively differentiated presence in a rapidly evolving scientific and business environment.

The successful candidate will cultivate strong partnerships with market business teams, facilitating the consistent adoption of digital capabilities and capitalizing on innovation opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

Domain leadership: 

• Supports the IT/Digital strategy: Driving the development of realistic and actionable multi-year strategic digital capability roadmaps, informed, and prioritized by business and IT in an enterprise context. Prioritizes the portfolio appropriately and supports the portfolio budget management.  

• Develops compelling business cases: Leads the prioritization and development of strong and clear business cases for digital capability investments in support of the roadmap and aligned with the platform strategy. Defines, measures, and achieves business outcomes for the highest value (at the lowest cost) digital capabilities.  
• Designs Solutions: Supports the design of specific solutions to various business problems. Design, describe, and manage the solution most appropriate for the risks and opportunities involved. 
• Brings an external view: Actively maintains awareness of external drivers in the business domain and relevant technology trends and brings innovative ideas. 
   

Strategic leadership: 

• Builds strong partnerships with business stakeholders: Is viewed by business leaders as an effective partner who plans and delivers digital capabilities, safeguards their digital assets, and supports their strategic goals.   
• Recognized as a thought leader and trusted advisor: Influences the strategic thinking of business leaders and helps business leaders to include future digital capabilities into their planning. 
• Owns the relationship: Has effective working relationships with all relevant business teams, is involved with key business activities and forums, is responsible for building and managing effective business partnership at all levels during project execution, and takes accountability for delivering the value proposition of IT.   
• Drives change: Ensures effective planning, execution, and communication of business change management to support digital capability investments, including business process changes to achieve maximum value from investments. Accountable for ensuring an effective change management plan is in place for their individual projects. 

Leveraging the matrix organization to drive portfolio execution: 

• Demonstrates Matrix leadership by ensuring that all IT functions are successful in their delivery of services to the business.   
• Empowers Shared IT teams: Understands IT business partner accountabilities throughout the portfolio lifecycle and builds empowered and trusting partnerships with shared IT team members at all levels.
• Shows good judgement in communication: Communicates successes and issues accurately, urgently, and to the right audience, and takes accountability for ensuring effective management of expectations with business leaders.  

Experience & skills

Our ideal candidate will present us with a strong business presence based on business knowledge and ability to demonstrable strategic planning & implementation of digital capabilities including cutting-edge technologies such as AI/ML, automation, cloud solutions, and GenAI  for business stakeholders. The candidate will have a growth mindset with an eagerness to develop and grow within the role

• 3 plus years’ experience in a similar role
• Strong ability and comfort with matrix management in delivering digital capabilities
• Familiarity with and awareness of the full pharmaceutical industry lifecycle
• Capable of working cooperatively across boundaries and time zones within a matrix to achieve results
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, influence and partner with business leaders

Preference will be given to candidates with experience working for large multi-national companies in a matrix structure.

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.

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.

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