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Director, Commercial Data Strategy & Governance

Remote, Franklin Lakes, NJ

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Job ID
R-544686
Category
Information Technology
Location
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey

We are the people who give possibilities purpose

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Job Description

Commercial Data & AI Platform Strategy

  • Own the commercial data and AI platform strategy, ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture standards and commercial analytics needs. 

  • Define and evolve the reference architecture for commercial data, analytics, and AI (including lakehouse patterns, MDM, APIs, and integration standards). 

  • Establish a scalable, cost‑effective platform foundation that supports analytics, experimentation, and AI at global enterprise scale. 

  • Partner with IT/GBS to align on shared infrastructure, tooling strategy, and long‑term platform roadmaps. 

Future of AI, Industry Foresight & Strategic Enablement

This role is responsible for ensuring the commercial data and AI foundation remains forward‑looking and adaptable as technology, economic conditions, and regulation evolve.

  • Maintain deep awareness of emerging AI capabilities, macroeconomic forces, regulatory trends, and technology shifts shaping the future of commercial execution in MedTech and Life Sciences. 

  • Evaluate novel AI and GenAI use cases (e.g., agentic workflows, reasoning models, copilots, simulation, real‑time decisioning) from a platform, governance, and scalability perspective for applicability across commercial domains such as sales productivity, forecasting, pricing, customer engagement, and revenue risk management. 

  • Translate external AI and market trends into forward‑looking platform, architecture, and governance implications, ensuring the commercial data ecosystem is future‑ready without sacrificing trust, security, or compliance. 

  • Partner with Commercial Decision Science & AI and Commercial Data Product Strategy to enable rapid experimentation with emerging AI capabilities while establishing guardrails that allow solutions to scale safely into production. 

  • Advise executive leadership on AI platform readiness, enterprise risk posture, and investment tradeoffs as the commercial AI landscape continues to evolve. 

Platform Engineering & Enablement

  • Own platform engineering roadmap supporting cloud infrastructure, storage, compute, orchestration, DataOps, and Master Data Management (MDM) for commercial domains. 

  • Ensure standardized ingestion, integration, and orchestration patterns across commercial source systems (e.g., CRM, CPQ, ERP, GTM, marketing, service). 

  • Enable platform capabilities that support analytics engineering, decision science, and GenAI use cases (e.g., feature access, historical backfills, observability). 

  • Design platform capabilities with a forward‑AI lens, ensuring flexibility to support emerging model types, agentic workflows, and evolving data access and compute patterns. 

  • Drive platforms that prioritize reliability, scalability, performance, and ease of consumption

Governance, Trust & Compliance

  • Own the commercial data governance framework, including operating model, standards, policies, and enforcement mechanisms. 

  • Implement metadata management, lineage, cataloging, and data discovery capabilities to ensure transparency, auditability, and reuse. 

  • Define and operationalize data quality frameworks, including automated validation, monitoring, and remediation. 

  • Establish and enforce access control, privacy, and compliance controls, ensuring adherence to GDPR, SOX, and other applicable regulatory requirements. 

  • Partner with IT, GBS, Legal, and Privacy teams to ensure commercial data and AI usage meets enterprise risk and compliance standards. 

Data Architecture & Standards

  • Define data modeling frameworks, integration patterns, and API standards for commercial data domains. 

  • Ensure architectural consistency across platforms, analytics layers, and AI workloads

  • Govern enterprise standards for data retention, lifecycle management, and auditability

Responsible AI & Enterprise Controls

  • Own and implement responsible AI guardrails for commercial use cases, including bias testing, drift monitoring, explainability, and human‑in‑the‑loop decisioning. 

  • Partner with Commercial Decision Science & AI to operationalize model governance, LLM usage standards, and AI risk controls

  • Ensure AI governance integrates seamlessly with broader data governance, security, and compliance councils

Governance Operating Model & Cross‑Enterprise Leadership

  • Design and run a global governance operating model that balances enterprise standardization with regional execution. 

  • Establish decision rights, escalation paths, and stewardship forums across Business Units and Regions. 

  • Act as the primary point of accountability for data trust, security, quality, and scalability within the Commercial Intelligence ecosystem. 

  • Provide executive visibility into platform health, data risk, governance maturity, and future readiness

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in data architecture, platform engineering, data governance, or enterprise data strategy within MedTech, Life Sciences, or similarly regulated industries (preferred). 

  • 5+ years of leadership experience managing global or enterprise‑scale data and platform teams. 

  • Proven experience designing and operating enterprise data platforms that support analytics and AI at scale. 

  • Deep understanding of data governance, privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk management

  • Strong familiarity with modern cloud data architectures, master data management (MDM), metadata management, and data quality tooling. 

  • Demonstrated ability to assess emerging AI technologies and macro trends and translate them into concrete platform, architecture, and governance decisions

  • Proven ability to balance governance rigor with speed, usability, and business outcomes

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field required. Advanced degree preferred. 

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Experience implementing governance‑by‑design approaches (automated controls vs. manual reviews). 

  • Familiarity with commercial data domains and how governance impacts analytics, AI, and decisioning. 

  • Experience partnering with analytics engineering and data science teams in production environments. 

  • Global enterprise experience spanning multiple Business Units, Regions, and regulatory environments. 

  • Strong executive presence and communication skills. 

Leadership Attributes

  • Future‑oriented thinker: anticipates how advances in AI, economic conditions, and industry dynamics will reshape commercial decision‑making and platform requirements. 

  • Trust‑centric leader: uncompromising on security, quality, and compliance while enabling scale and speed. 

  • Systems thinker: understands how platforms, governance, analytics, and AI operate as a single ecosystem. 

  • Pragmatic enabler: embeds governance into workflows rather than creating friction. 

  • Enterprise leader: drives standardization with empathy for regional and business realities. 

  • Clear executive communicator: able to explain risk, architecture, and tradeoffs to senior leadership. 

  • High integrity, resilience, learning agility, and bias for action.

At BD, we are committed to supporting our associates’ well-being, development, and success through a performance-based culture. For this position, BD offers a competitive compensation package along with the following benefits specific to this role: 

  • Annual Bonus 

  • Potential Discretionary LTI Bonus

  • Potential reimbursement of vehicle use/mileage 

  • Potential reimbursement of phone use 

Health and Well-being Benefits

  • Medical coverage  

  • Health Savings Accounts  

  • Flexible Spending Accounts  

  • Dental coverage  

  • Vision coverage  

  • Hospital Care Insurance  

  • Critical Illness Insurance  

  • Accidental Injury Insurance  

  • Life and AD&D insurance  

  • Short-term disability coverage  

  • Long-term disability insurance  

  • Long-term care with life insurance  

Other Well-being Resources

  • Anxiety management program  

  • Wellness incentives  

  • Sleep improvement program  

  • Diabetes management program  

  • Virtual physical therapy  

  • Emotional/mental health support programs  

  • Weight management programs  

  • Gastrointestinal health program  

  • Substance use management program  

  • Musculoskeletal surgery, cancer treatment, and bariatric surgery benefit  

Retirement and Financial Well-being

  • BD 401(k) Plan  

  • BD Deferred Compensation and Restoration Plan  

  • 529 College Savings Plan  

  • Financial counseling  

  • Baxter Credit Union (BCU)  

  • Daily Pay  

  • College financial aid and application guidance  

Life Balance Programs

  • Paid time off (PTO), including all required State leaves  

  • Educational assistance/tuition reimbursement  

  • MetLife Legal Plan  

  • Group auto and home insurance  

  • Pet insurance  

  • Commuter benefits  

  • Discounts on products and services  

  • Academic Achievement Scholarship  

  • Service Recognition Awards  

  • Employer matching donation  

  • Workplace accommodations  

Other Life Balance Programs

  • Adoption assistance  

  • Backup day care and eldercare  

  • Support for neurodivergent adults, children, and caregivers  

  • Caregiving assistance for elderly and special needs individuals  

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)  

  • Paid Parental Leave  

  • Support for fertility, birthing, postpartum, and age-related hormonal changes  

Leave Programs

  • Bereavement leaves  

  • Military leave  

  • Personal leave  

  • Family and Medical Leave (FML)  

  • Jury and Witness Duty Leave 

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.

Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program. We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs. You can learn more on our career site under "Our Commitment to You."

Our salary or hourly rate ranges reward associates fairly and competitively. We regularly review these ranges and factors, such as location, contribute to the range displayed.

Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully. The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location. Salary or hourly pay ranges are influenced by labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location which may also affect the workplace arrangement of the role.

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