Associate Scientific Director

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

 

Position: Associate Director, Process Scale-Up & Manufacturing Readiness

Location: Hyderabad, India

Working with Us

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees continually ask, “Who are you working for?” – a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Position Summary

The Associate Director, Process Scale-Up & Manufacturing Readiness serves as a technical leader responsible for assessing, de-risking, and enabling the successful scale-up of clinical drug substance manufacturing processes from laboratory scale through pilot plant and manufacturing scale implementation. This role provides strategic and hands-on expertise in chemical engineering, technology transfer, process scale-up, safe process implementation, and GMP process operations across our growing network of external manufacturing partners located in Asia.

This individual will be based out of the Hyderabad BMS office and will serve as the Person in Plant (PIP) with our Asian Contract Development and Management Organizations (CDMOs). They will collaborate closely with internal colleagues based in US and/or Europe across chemistry, engineering, manufacturing, and quality to translate laboratory science into reliable, safe, and executable manufacturing processes at scale. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in small molecule processes and GMP manufacturing, with experience in other modalities (ADCs, oligonucleotides, peptides, radiopharmaceuticals) viewed as a significant advantage. Additionally, the successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills, the ability to frequently travel to CDMO manufacturing sites, and have prior experience navigating CDMO technical relationships including the ability to strategically and tactically drive technical improvements.

Responsibilities

• Influence manufacturing strategies across a large portfolio of projects while mentoring US- and European-based scientists and engineers to build organizational capabilities in scale-up and GMP manufacturing

• Lead technology transfer and on-site support at multiple external sites, driving proactive assessment and mitigation of potential risks and rapid resolution of realized manufacturing issues

• Identify and improve BMS-CDMO ways-of-working regarding technical transfer and manufacturing readiness

• Lead manufacturing readiness assessments, evaluating process scalability and de-risking scale-up from lab through pilot plant and commercial production

• Serve as SME for chemical manufacturing operations and unit operations, partnering with process chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing to define executable processes

• Apply process safety and risk management principles to lead readiness reviews prior to manufacturing campaigns

• Represent CPD Engineering in cross-functional and enterprise forums, contributing to broader strategic alignment

The successful candidate can walk into a manufacturing plant and rapidly assess:

• Whether the process will fit the equipment, and where scale-up risks are likely to occur

• Whether environmental health and safety and GMP quality risks are adequately addressed, and if not, have the ability productively raise these risks to internal and external stakeholders and leadership while successfully driving resolution

• Whether the process, equipment, or operations strategy requires modification to maximize the probability of success

Qualifications & Experience

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with 8+ years industrial experience; or M.S. with 12+ years; or B.S. with 15+ years of relevant experience

• Extensive experience scaling small molecule manufacturing processes from lab through pilot plant and commercial production, with strong process safety and troubleshooting skills

• Knowledge of cGMP manufacturing and quality systems

• Demonstrated success influencing in a matrixed management environment without direct reporting relationships

• Experience beyond small molecules (ADCs, oligonucleotides, peptides, radiopharmaceuticals) and experience spanning clinical to commercial manufacturing preferred

• This position requires work within facilities handling hazardous chemical agents, which, if improperly handled, may have the potential to affect employee health, including reproductive function and/or embryo/fetal development

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

At BMS, every employee helps advance our vision: Transforming patients’ lives through science™. Here, uniquely interesting and meaningful work happens every day, across high-achieving teams who have transformational opportunities to learn, grow and lead. Help us define what’s possible for the future of science and the patients we serve.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

Data Protection

We will never request payments, financial information, or social security numbers during our application or recruitment process. Learn more about protecting yourself at https://careers.bms.com/fraud-protection.

Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.

If you believe that the job posting is missing information required by local law or incorrect in any way, please contact BMS at TAEnablement@bms.com. Please provide the Job Title and Requisition number so we can review. Communications related to your application should not be sent to this email and you will not receive a response. Inquiries related to the status of your application should be directed to Chat with Ripley.

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

For roles based in Los Angeles County only:  If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

For roles based in Washington State only: If you live in or expect to work from Washington State if hired for this position, please visit this page for important information about the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Data Protection

We will never request payments, financial information, or social security numbers during our application or recruitment process. Learn more about protecting yourself at https://careers.bms.com/fraud-protection.

Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.

If this posting is missing required information required by local law or incorrect, contact BMS at TAEnablement@bms.com with the Job Title and Requisition number. Do not send application-related inquiries to this email. To check your application status, please login to your Candidate Home Account.

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