Disease Area Specialist, Clinical Trial & Pipeline

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Role Summary

The Disease Area Specialist (DAS) embodies BMS's medical mission — becoming a trusted, agile partner who engages in relevant scientific dialogue and delivers timely, high-impact data and insights that advance the science, accelerate access, shape medical practice, and drive the appropriate adoption of BMS medicines.

This is a Head Office (HO)-based role with approximately 20–30% time spent in the field. The DAS will a) work with the cross functional team and lead the medical strategy for relevant pipeline assets b) lead the clinical development and trial activities in collaboration with the Regional Clinical Operations (RCO) team. The DAS will also work in close collaboration with the MSL team to drive relevant clinical trial related support.

Key Role Accountabilities

• Ensure country medical activities are aligned with worldwide (WW) pipeline strategies and implement Therapy Area (TA) initiatives in line with WW medical strategy

• Participate in the Early Product Planning (EPP) process and serve as the country medical representative in regional and global pipeline working groups for relevant assets.

• Provide clinical strategic and tactical leadership for Phase 1–3 trials, including input into clinical development plans, concept sheets, and feasibility assessments

• Drive pipeline asset strategy at the country level by monitoring the competitive landscape, emerging clinical data, and evolving treatment paradigms to proactively shape the commercial and medical strategy of developmental compounds

• Translate global pipeline insights into local medical strategies, ensuring that country-level plans are informed by the latest clinical evidence, unmet medical needs, and patient population characteristics specific to India

• Engage proactively with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and scientific experts to build scientific advocacy and gather meaningful insights that feed back into pipeline development strategies and clinical program designs

• Lead country feasibility assessments for GDD-focused clinical trials by evaluating epidemiology, patient journey, treatment landscape, payer data, and competitive environment through physician interviews and local database analysis

• Provide medical support for the trial start-up phase and recruitment plan with the local RCO organization; proactively identify potential delays and develop robust mitigation strategies to protect planned timelines

• Deliver protocol, RMP, and disease-area training to CRAs, CSEs, investigators, and site personnel; represent BMS at Investigator Meetings and scientific venues to drive trial awareness and recruitment

• Serve as the primary medical point of contact for sites and investigators during trial conduct; review and resolve local medical issues and escalate to global teams as needed

• Provide medical/clinical assistance for IEC/IRB interactions, CTA filings, NDA meetings, label discussions, Ministry of Health interactions, and post-approval commitments

·       Support Ministry of Health interaction (or local Board of Health) as required

• Perform local AE/SAE review for development compounds, support the Patient Safety team with medical assessment and follow-up, and provide pharmacovigilance expertise including risk-benefit assessments

• Support planning, implementation, and follow-up of regulatory agency inspections and internal GCP audits; drive all trial activities in adherence to GCP and ICH guidelines and local regulations

• Closely collaborate with Market Access, HEOR, Regulatory Affairs, Payer and Commercial to ensure seamless cross-functional alignment on pipeline assets; provide medical input into regulatory filings and commercial evaluations.  

• Leverage RWE, registries, and epidemiology insights to support innovative study designs, build robust access narratives, and strengthen cross-functional evidence generation for pipeline products

• Ensure strong medical and scientific knowledge through continuous training of MSLs, FMSM, Sales, and Marketing teams; provide scientific mentoring to newcomers

• Actively promote a culture of performance, innovation, ethical behavior, and compliance with all applicable BMS policies

Role Qualifications:

• Medical Doctor (MBBS, MD) preferredAgility to  move fast across different therapeutic areas and  indications
• Preferably 3-4 years medical affairs and clinical development experience in pharmaceutical industry
• Proficient in both written and spoken English, and local language
• Ability to run a study from the medical/clinical perspective, and a demonstrated proficiency to problem solve and mediate complex-clinical / medical / operational issues and
• Sound understanding of the clinical development and ICH/GCP

Skills: 

• Strategic Agility: Creates a clear purpose, vision, strategies and key priorities for competing successfully in the evolving pharmaceutical and health care industry.
• Intellectual Curiosity and Learning Agility:  Proven history of seeking out new information and learning quickly – ability to absorb new concepts, analyze data and ask insightful questions to make effective decisions-experiments.
• Impact and Influence: Builds personal credibility and strong working relationships through quality of contributions, trustworthiness, openness, and candor. Breaks barriers and influences across organizational and/or geographical boundaries leading to efficiency, effectiveness, and nimbleness for maximized organizational performance.
• Collaboration with matrix team
• Leading Transformation and Change: Demonstrated success in shifting a business or company’s strategy, mindset, culture, process and focus to ensure commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, accountability and nimbleness. Actively engages and aligns others to support the change and take an organization to where it needs to go.
• Functional Expertise: Demonstrates proven skills in functional areas of R&D and GMA.
• Decision Making Skills: Utilizes an effective decision making process, demonstrates superb judgment, decisiveness and applies a combination of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment that enhance the success of Bristol-Myers Squibb.
• Communication Skills: Communicates articulately, credibly and convincingly.
• Execution Skills: Demonstrated success in driving execution of key priorities and plans by establishing expectations for work and metrics, setting high standards and holding team members accountable for results, behaviors and continuous improvement.

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
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

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

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

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