Full-Time

Senior Director HRBP

Neurology and Strategy & Innovation

Posted on 6/20/2026

Deadline 6/30/26
Bristol Myers Squibb

Bristol Myers Squibb

10,001+ employees

Global biopharma researching, developing, delivering medicines

Compensation Overview

$221.4k - $268.3k/yr

+ Stock opportunities

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Princeton, NJ, USA

In Person

On-site role required; site-essential with 100% onsite at Princeton facility.

Category
People & HR
Required Skills
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • BA/BS Degree, Advanced Degree preferred, and 15+ years of HR relevant business experience
  • Proven leadership effectiveness in followership, innovation, people program/project management, and executive coaching, demonstrating the ability to inspire and guide teams, foster a culture of creativity and continuous improvement, manage complex projects and programs efficiently, and provide strategic coaching to senior executives to enhance their leadership capabilities
  • Expertise in talent management, including end-to-end talent acquisition, performance management, engagement, and diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Demonstrated experience utilizing data and analytics to drive business and talent decisions, including data analysis, insights generation, data visualization, data integrity, and diagnostic capabilities
  • Demonstrated behavioral skills in curiosity, learning agility, and growth mindset
  • Exhibit understanding of regulatory compliance, including the human elements and implications to enterprise and business
  • Demonstrated strength in strategy and business acumen by influencing and shaping business strategy through people strategy, anticipating external trends, providing context and influence for organizational effectiveness, applying systems thinking, and using a diagnostic mindset to improve talent and business outcomes
  • Extensive experience in business partnering, including organizational savvy and influence, consulting, performance management, organizational design, change management, and significant leadership skills in building and leading global, diverse teams of People professionals
  • Extensive experience as an HR business partner with significant leadership skills leading and working across global, diverse teams of HR professionals
  • Proven success in working effectively at senior management levels to impact and influence decision-making
  • Experience working with global teams
  • Experience in leading change management efforts, including defining change and communication plans
  • Experience in the use of metrics and analytics in a way that drives business performance
  • Demonstrated experience in applying workforce planning knowledge, engagement strategies, and succession management
  • Proven experience in working effectively within a matrixed environment and building alignment in a cross-functional and team environment
  • Knowledge of external trends and factors that influence human behaviors and decision-making at the individual, group, and organizational level
Responsibilities
  • Provides strategic HR Business Partner expertise to the Therapeutic Areas Leadership in function to maximize organizational performance
  • Leverages business strategy, people strategy, external best practices and organizational insights to deliver bold and innovative organizational and talent solutions, including organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, and culture change
  • Aligns corporate and functional strategies with BMS people strategy, monitoring the effectiveness of organizational performance programs through metrics and analytics to bring value through the business
  • Collaborates with Centers of Excellence to monitor external environment (e.g., job market, technology, demographic development) and define future workforce requirements (quantitative and qualitative) as well as identifying and articulating the People needs of the business to the COE’s and deploys their programs and processes in ways that bring value to the business
  • Drives the ONE People team across the region and provides guidance and collaborates with therapeutic area HR Business Partners, COEs and People Services leaders for effective global deployment of People activities
  • Analyzes key data and trends to drive organizational effectiveness and the development of a workforce plan aligned with business strategy and objectives
  • Supports succession planning, talent retention efforts and pipelining, as necessary, for external talent
  • Leads a team of functional HRBPs ensuring continuous performance, engagement and development of all team members
  • Role Model our BMS Values of Integrity, Innovation, Urgency, Passion, Accountability, and Inclusion
  • Ensures end-to-end org design, encompassing communication and effective change management
  • Translate business strategy and organizational needs into contemporary organizational solutions including organizational design, inclusion and diversity, succession & talent management, and culture change
  • Collaborate across the People OP Model (COE’s, People Services) to articulate business needs and partners in delivering solutions in ways that bring value across the enterprise
  • Applies judgment to data insights and trends to support business talent and organization decisions that drives organizational effectiveness and innovative and robust workforce planning, engagement strategies, and succession management
  • Shape and lead change management efforts to ensure delivery of organizational solutions, programs, and deliverables

Bristol Myers Squibb develops and sells medicines for serious diseases, focusing on cancer, immune system disorders, and cardiovascular conditions. Its work starts with research and development to create new therapies, which are then approved by regulators before being used by doctors and patients; the company also offers generic versions and supports biosimilars to expand access. BMS differentiates itself with a broad portfolio of innovative medicines alongside affordable options and a strong emphasis on ESG and regulatory engagement. The goal is to improve patient health by delivering effective, affordable medicines and advancing sustainable healthcare globally.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1887

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What believers are saying

  • Mezigdomide data strengthens BMS's multiple myeloma successor strategy.
  • Opdivo AVD European approval expands first-line Hodgkin lymphoma reach.
  • Broader pipeline readouts in 2026 can reaccelerate growth beyond legacy erosion.

What critics are saying

  • Revlimid and Eliquis exclusivity losses will pressure revenue through 2026.
  • Pipeline success depends on several late-stage readouts across oncology and cardiovascular programs.
  • Opdivo faces intensifying competition from bispecifics and ADCs in oncology markets.

What makes Bristol Myers Squibb unique

  • BMS pairs oncology scale with immunology and cardiovascular franchises.
  • Its 50-compound pipeline targets transformational medicines across high-value therapeutic areas.
  • Acquisition-led portfolio rebuilding supplements internal R&D through CELMoDs and ADCs.

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6 month growth

-4%

1 year growth

-4%

2 year growth

-4%
LEADx
Jun 11th, 2026
Why this CPO believes AI and EQ need to work in tandem.

Why this CPO believes AI and EQ need to work in tandem. June 11, 2026 The Chief People Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, Amanda Poole, just returned from presenting at a CHRO conference. For six hours, the conversation never left AI: How AI will change HR, how AI will reshape work, how AI will alter productivity, planning, and workforce strategy. By the time Amanda Poole took the stage, the room had heard every version of the same message: AI is coming fast, and leaders need to be ready. Poole didn't disagree, but she reframed the conversation, saying, "AI is transformative. It will do so much and bring so much. But do you know what AI can't do and doesn't do? It can't care." That line gets at a central leadership question many organizations are now facing. AI can summarize, automate, analyze, and accelerate. But it can't make people feel seen. It can't create trust on a team, coach a struggling manager through a hard conversation, or make complex human decisions under pressure. Across more than 40 interviews with Learning & Development leaders, nearly every leader has stated that L&D is optimally suited to fill one of AI's biggest gaps - the need for enduring human skills. The more powerful AI becomes, Poole pointed out, the more valuable care, connection, and emotional intelligence will also become. "People want to do good work, they want to be valued for their work, and they want to know that we care about them and see them," she said. BMS's top 3 skills for the future of work. Poole believes three skills will matter most in the AI Era: curiosity, resilience, and connection. First is intellectual curiosity. This is your ability to think in "three different worlds." "The world of possibility, the world of decisions, and the world of data." This requires a blend of disciplined curiosity and unafraid creativity. Second is resilience. "We certainly don't know what's coming, but what will it look like to demonstrate resilience, to be agile, to navigate change?" Poole said. Third is connection. "Can you still work within a team and bring out the best of yourself and the best of your team?" she asked. "To do this, you need to understand other people's work. You need to be able to do systems thinking, seeing how work gets done and how the ecosystem needs to operate." Curiosity, resilience, and connectedness all tie closely together with emotional intelligence. Consider, for example, how: * you can't practice curiosity if you're closed off and judgmental (low self-awareness, low social awareness) * you can't be agile and resilient in times of change if you can't recognize the emotions change stirs up (self-awareness) and manage those emotions (self-management). * you can't build connection with your team members without awareness of their tendencies and feelings (social awareness) or the expression of care and trust (relationship management) How EQ and personality work in unison. One of the more distinctive things Poole shared was Bristol Myers Squibb's "Valuably Quiet" program. The idea emerged from a reality many science-based organizations know well: not every high contributor is loud, fast-talking, or outwardly expressive. "We've got all sorts of extroverts, but boy, do we have a lot of introverts, too," Poole said. Poole's team wanted to explore the idea that impactful contribution can look different from different people. One example Poole shared was "passion." In many workplaces, passion gets coded by the degree of a person's expression. The person who speaks first, speaks often, and visibly energizes a room can be seen as more engaged. But Poole is explicit that "passion looks different for introverts and extroverts." That is where emotional intelligence comes in. Socially aware leaders can learn the natural tendencies of team members and start to look for "passion" in different ways from different people. Rather than try to turn introverts into extroverts, or extroverts into introverts, the emotionally intelligent leader will tap into the inherent strengths and styles of each type. This leads to more balanced, inclusive, and creative teamwork. The BMS Manager Excellence program operationalizes emotional intelligence. Earlier in Poole's career, she moved out of HR and into the commercial side of the business. That experience, she pointed out, was transformative because it showed her what management really means. In field-based roles, "you effectively are the company," she said. That lesson now sits at the center of Bristol Myers Squibb's manager development strategy. The company's Manager Excellence program, or MAX, helps develop roughly 6,000 managers under the premise that if the company is going to navigate change, it needs strong managers. To strengthen their managers, they first set a clear definition of what great management looks like. Whether you've been a manager for three weeks or 30 years, the baseline standards for "great" are the same. What sits inside that baseline is unmistakably emotional intelligence in practice: self-awareness, empathy, listening, coaching, psychological safety, and the ability to give feedback well. The MAX training program is a six-month journey with ongoing coaching. Poole noted that the coaching conversations delve deep into EQ work. BMS's brain health program: 'work hard, recover harder' As AI accelerates work, many leaders feel pressure to move faster and to take on more work. BMS is betting on a different idea: performance now depends not just on output, but on recovery. "If we want to be leaders in brain health, it needs to start with us, and it needs to acknowledge brain health as a component of well-being," Poole said. "We've translated this demand for brain health into a new mantra, which is 'Work hard, recover harder.' The work we do is hard, and the pace, especially with AI, will not change. The answer isn't to work harder, it's to purposely create the space to recover harder." Under the "Work hard, recover harder" mantra, recovery will become BMS's differentiator, a way to "unlock and unleash a new level of performance at BMS." Enduring human skills like EQ can't be replaced. The practical lesson for other leaders and other organizations is clear: don't let AI become an excuse to neglect the human layer of performance. Build curiosity, resilience, and connection into how you hire and develop talent. Train managers to turn those skills into visible behaviors, and make recovery part of performance, not a reward for surviving it. Because when the room spends six hours talking about AI, the smartest leader may still be the one willing to stand up and remind everyone what the technology is lacking: care.

Pharma Focus Asia
May 21st, 2026
Bristol Myers Squibb enters into agreement with Anthropic for AI deployment across global operations.

Bristol Myers Squibb enters into agreement with Anthropic for AI deployment across global operations. Thursday, May 21, 2026 Bristol Myers Squibb has entered into a strategic agreement with Anthropic to deploy Claude Enterprise across its global operations. The partnership aims to strengthen the use of artificial intelligence in research, clinical development, manufacturing, commercial activities, and corporate functions. The company plans to provide Claude's AI capabilities to more than 30,000 employees. The initiative is designed to move beyond basic chatbot applications and introduce agentic AI systems that can support everyday workflows and decision-making across the organisation. As part of the agreement, Bristol Myers Squibb will use Claude Code to support engineering and data science teams in accelerating software and AI development. The company expects this approach to improve the integration of data and expertise currently spread across disconnected systems. The collaboration will also focus on embedding AI agents into key pharmaceutical workflows. In research, AI tools will be used to analyse scientific, molecular, and clinical data to support target identification and optimisation in areas including oncology, haematology, neuroscience, and immunology. In drug development, the company plans to apply intelligent automation to activities such as preparing clinical study reports, patient safety narratives, and regulatory submissions. The aim is to reduce the time required between clinical data completion and regulatory filing. Manufacturing and quality operations will also benefit from AI-driven support for root-cause investigations, corrective and preventive action documentation, and batch release decisions. The company expects these improvements to strengthen compliance, speed up decision-making, and support faster medicine delivery. In commercial and medical affairs, the technology will help organise field insights into structured information to improve engagement with healthcare professionals and deliver more relevant information when needed. Claude will also be connected to internal systems and repositories containing scientific, clinical, regulatory, and commercial knowledge. Bristol Myers Squibb stated that the deployment will operate with enterprise governance and audit controls. The agreement builds on more than three years of AI investment by Bristol Myers Squibb. The company has already provided employees with access to multiple frontier AI models through its internal AI platform as part of a broader multi-vendor strategy.

360Dx
Apr 21st, 2026
In expanded BMS collaboration, Foundation Medicine to develop CDx to detect MTAP deletion.

In expanded BMS collaboration, Foundation Medicine to develop CDx to detect MTAP deletion. NEW YORK - Foundation Medicine said Tuesday that it has expanded an ongoing collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to develop FoundationOne CDx as a next-generation sequencing-based companion diagnostic to identify patients with homozygous MTAP deletion in multiple indications for an investigational targeted therapy. Get the full story with 360dx Premium. Only $95 for the first 90 days. Full site access Interest-based email alerts Premium Access - Trial Offer $95.00 for 3 month

Yahoo Finance
Apr 13th, 2026
Bristol Myers Squibb: 4.2% dividend yield and stable revenue at bargain valuation

Bristol Myers Squibb presents an attractive value investment in the pharmaceutical sector, with a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 9.5, significantly lower than competitors Johnson & Johnson (21) and Merck (24). The company offers a 4.2% dividend yield and has increased payouts for 17 consecutive years. Bristol reported $48.2 billion in revenue for 2025, with 2026 guidance between $46 billion and $47.5 billion, demonstrating consistency despite modest decline. However, the favourable valuation reflects investor concerns about slowing legacy portfolio revenue, which fell from $25.7 billion in 2024 to $21.8 billion in 2025. Key challenges include an upcoming patent cliff for Eliquis, its blood thinner generating $14.4 billion in 2025 sales, and the $1.5 billion acquisition of Orbital Therapeutics whilst carrying over $47 billion in debt.

Yahoo Finance
Apr 10th, 2026
Bristol Myers' Cobenfy hits $155M in first year, outpacing rival schizophrenia treatments

Bristol Myers Squibb's schizophrenia drug Cobenfy generated $155 million in sales during 2025, outpacing comparable treatments in its first year following FDA approval in September 2024. The medication represents the first new pharmacological approach to treating schizophrenia in decades. Recent phase II data presented at the Schizophrenia International Research Society Annual Congress showed adults with schizophrenia remained stable after switching to Cobenfy monotherapy over eight weeks, with low discontinuation rates and no dropouts due to lack of efficacy. Bristol Myers is pursuing label expansions across multiple indications, with ongoing phase III studies in Alzheimer's disease psychosis, agitation, cognitive impairment, bipolar I disorder and paediatric irritability associated with autism. The company expects Cobenfy to become a significant growth driver as legacy drugs face generic competition.