Becton, Dickinson and Company

Director, Commercial Data Strategy & Governance

Becton, Dickinson and Company • $192K — $307K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Franklin Lakes, NJ
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
2 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in data architecture or enterprise data strategy (MedTech or Life Sciences preferred).
  • 5+ years managing global data and platform teams.
  • Experience designing enterprise data platforms for analytics and AI.
  • Strong knowledge of data governance, compliance, and enterprise risk.
  • Familiar with cloud data architectures, MDM, and data quality tooling.
  • Ability to translate AI trends into actionable platform and governance strategies.
  • Capacity to balance governance with operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Own the commercial data and AI platform strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
  • Define the reference architecture for data, analytics, and AI.
  • Establish a scalable platform foundation for global analytics and AI.
  • Collaborate with IT on shared infrastructure and long-term roadmaps.
  • Maintain awareness of trends in AI and the life sciences industry.
  • Evaluate AI use cases for scalability across commercial domains.
  • Advise executives on platform readiness and risk management.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus and potential discretionary LTI bonus.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement plans including 401(k) and deferred compensation options.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) and educational assistance.
  • Various well-being resources and mental health support programs.
Full Job Description
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 Privacyteams 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


Primary Work Location
USA NJ - Franklin Lakes

Salary Range Information
$192,000.00 - $307,200.00 USD Annual

About Becton, Dickinson and Company

BD is a global technology company that provides diagnostics and technologies for frontliners. Through their solutions and services, they assist scientists in detecting diseases and advanced researchers' on developing diagnoses and therapeutics. BD was established in 1897 by Farleigh Dickinson and Maxwell Becton in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Size
75,000 employees
Market Cap
$72 billion
Industry
Healthcare
Net Income
$1.6 billion
Founded
1897
5 Year Trend
+9.3%
Revenue
$18.2 billion
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