Director ISC Data and AI

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Director governing supply-chain data, ontology, products, and AI agents at BD, a global medical technology company. Leading ISC data transformation, governance, interoperability, and executive strategy.

Responsibilities:

  • Establish and drive the data foundation for the end-to-end Integrated Supply Chain Digital Transformation agenda
  • Own data governance, ownership, and stewardship across plan, source, make, deliver, and return supply chain domains
  • Define and enforce common data standards, taxonomies, master data, and reference data across ISC systems and processes
  • Lead data quality management, monitoring, issue resolution, and continuous improvement
  • Design and evolve enterprise-grade conceptual, logical, and physical supply chain data models
  • Lead delivery and management of reusable, business-aligned data products
  • Develop and maintain a contextualized ISC data ontology/semantic layer
  • Enable knowledge graph and semantic capabilities for analytics, natural-language query, and AI/agentic use cases
  • Define and govern standards, lifecycle stages, quality gates, and registration requirements for all ISC AI agents
  • Establish and maintain a centralized AI Agent Registry/Catalog
  • Ensure agents consume governed data products and the ISC ontology/semantic layer
  • Define agent consistency, risk tiering, access management, observability, documentation, versioning, and interoperability standards
  • Establish an agent review/certification process before production release
  • Monitor agent performance, drift, redundancy, and retirement
  • Publish reusable agent design patterns and reference architectures
  • Ensure the data foundation is AI-ready for GenAI, predictive/prescriptive analytics, agentic AI, and automation
  • Advise ISC leadership on data, AI, agent strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities
  • Track and communicate ROI of data governance, AI enablement, and agent standardization initiatives, including token usage and cost optimization
  • Build, lead, and develop a team of data governance, data modeling/architecture, and data product professionals
  • Serve as liaison among ISC leaders, IT/Data Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics/AI, and external partners
  • Influence senior stakeholders across a matrixed organization

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in data management, data governance, data architecture, or analytics
  • At least 5 years in supply chain, manufacturing, or operations contexts
  • Proven track record leading enterprise data governance programs and data modeling initiatives at scale
  • Experience building or scaling data product organizations is highly valued
  • Experience with data ontology, knowledge graphs, or semantic layer design preferred
  • Experience establishing or governing an AI agent inventory/registry, or equivalent governance mechanism for bots, RPA, or automation assets, strongly preferred
  • Exposure to multiple agent/automation platforms with ability to define platform-agnostic standards
  • Prior experience in a large-scale digital transformation program
  • Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes and associated data domains
  • Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks, master data management, and data quality practices
  • Working knowledge of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, data architecture, and modern data platforms
  • Familiarity with ontology/semantic technologies such as RDF, OWL, and knowledge graphs
  • Understanding of agentic AI architecture concepts, including tool use/function calling, orchestration, memory/context management, human-in-the-loop design, and multi-agent interoperability
  • Familiarity with AI risk classification frameworks and responsible AI/model governance practices
  • Ability to define technology-neutral standards across heterogeneous, multi-platform agent landscapes
  • Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and executive communication skills
  • Ability to translate technical data concepts into business value for non-technical audiences
  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Data/Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required
  • Relevant certifications in data and AI are a plus

Benefits:

  • Face-to-face collaboration culture
  • Learning, growth, and development opportunities
  • Equal opportunity employment