Associate Director, Global Field Medical Excellence, CV/IMM

Princeton, NJ

Job Description

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

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At BMS, the Global Field Medical Excellence (GFME) team is positioned within the Scientific Communications and Engagement (SCE) organization. SCE/GFME plays a critical role in ensuring that healthcare professionals are educated on the appropriate use of our medicines and have the information they need to improve outcomes for their patients. We develop strategies, tools, and guidance to empower Medical (Home Office, Market and Field Medical/FM) teams around the globe and ensure that they are aware, informed, engaged, and equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to perform their roles effectively and compliantly. Our AD GFME are agile, strategic partners within the Medical matrix organization for their respective therapeutic areas, serving to bridge the global medical vision and strategies into successful field medical execution.

Key Accountabilities

  • Reports to Director, Global Field Medical Excellence; AD GFME will provide support to GFME leadership within and across CV/IMM to:
    • Inform development of CV/IMM field medical strategies and narratives, leveraging medical insights, to represent the interests and voice of the market FM teams
    • Partner across the matrix to ensure effective FM communications and engagement
    • Ensure CV/IMM input is maintained in FM operational/reporting systems, including customer relationship management, content management, and medical insights platforms
    • Optimize medical insight quality, analysis, and communications, including operational support for Global and above Market Fast Insight Review (FIRe) teams
    • Coordinate GFME efforts to ensure optimal FM Study Support within and across CV/IMM /Assets/Indications, including analytics and value demonstration for tier 1 priority studies.
    • Maintain connectivity with market Field Medical personnel, ensuring feedback that informs and aligns GFME activities with market needs
  • AD will proactively outreach and partner across GFME CV/IMM teams to Identify and escalate opportunities to optimize and standardize deliverables and ways of working resulting in improved quality, efficiency, and organizational value.
  • May include responsibility for management of team project manager/operational support (eg graduate, Fellow, intern).

Strategic Planning

  • Participates actively in the Medical CV/IMM Forum/Matrix and SCE cross-TA teams, and in partnership with GFME directors, ensures FM interests and insights are effectively represented in global Field Medical plans that support the overall medical strategies. May be called upon to provide a leadership role to represent GFME within assigned matrix team/project
  • Partner with GFME directors to ensure globally consistent and locally relevant pull through of medical strategies
  • Accountability to maintain alignment and implementation of Medical Communication Topics (MCTs) for stakeholder interaction documentation in InterAct and Key Insight Topics/Details (KIT/Ds) for insight documentation in MEDsights

Execution

  • Partner with GFME directors to pull through strategic initiatives impacting Field Medical, inclusive of QL, Medical Mindset, and Medical Impact Agenda. Optimize capabilities to improve speed and simplicity
  • Facilitates FM related congress support inclusive of priority session coverage and summaries, medical booth staffing/briefing, and insight oversight and management
  • Accountable for overarching FM study support for CV/IMM – ensuring training of FM study leads and key cross-functional stakeholders, oversight of management of resources for all studies and responsible for metrics to demonstrate FM activities for Tier 1 and 2 trials
  • Accountable for operational support for global FIRe Team(s) for assigned assets/indications including meeting facilitation, analysis, and reporting/tracking. Facilitates integration and review of stakeholder insights to inform actionable plans

Communications & Value Demonstration

  • Ensures platforms and tools are effectively leveraged to facilitate optimal bi-directional communications and information sharing between FME and market FM teams (Inclusive of CV/IMM Sharepoint(s)), MS Teams Channels, Veeva Vault Portal)
  • Partners with GFME directors to define, measure and report on FM activities and value aligned with objectives
  • Facilitates FM best practice sharing and implementation across CV/IMM and markets
  • Fosters communication and alignment with alliance partners, as appropriate

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

  • Medical/Scientific background from prior Field Medical deployed and/or Field Medical Management position in Pharma or Biotech company (2+ years advantageous)
  • Proven track record in strategic thinking, ability to synthesize data and communicate effectively (excellent written/oral English mandatory), and demonstrate advanced presentation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence effectively across a matrixed, multicultural organization and manage Medical and Commercialization activities
  • Proven ability to innovate and to rapidly adapt to a fast-changing environment
  • Experience and proven knowledge in disease-state area (advantageous)
  • Country or regional medical role (2 years desirable)
  • Understand regulatory policy & guidance for Medical communications in the industry
  • Proven understanding of the medical environment and industry trends and their impact on the business
  • Demonstrated skills with tools and technologies used to communicate and engage with large Medical audiences (Live & Remote)
  • Demonstrates consistent ethical and professional behavior
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally, up to 20%

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