Medical Head, CHAT-CEE Subregion

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.

The Medical Head, CHAT-CEE Subregion leads an organization responsible for supporting better health outcomes for patients through understanding the current and future needs of patients and medical care. The incumbent will be a forward-looking, objective, matrixed leader, establishes both the strategy and culture to drive the organization towards delivering differential value to our key thought leaders and patients. 

The Medical organization provides a critical bridge between the science and medical practice and is core to the collaboration between science/development and commercial/ market facing functions as well as BMS and the external collaborators/stakeholders. The successful candidate will work closely with peers and colleagues in the development and commercial organizations worldwide to support the delivery of the company's product and portfolio strategies. He/ she will bring a strong external focus and patient-centric approach. Most critically, the successful candidate will be a highly pragmatic, results-oriented, execution-minded leader. 

Accountable for providing vision and delivery of a first in class medical model for a biopharma company with a robust pipeline, supporting multiple launches in the cluster. Effectively drive the review process and execution of the medical book of work including but not limited to investigators sponsored, phase IV research and real-world data generation, while ensuring the safe and appropriate use of BMS medicines. Building and applying core medical capabilities to support the medical delivery model. Develop, maintain and monitor processes/policies and ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements for global medical activities undertaken for launches and approved products. Ensure effective partnerships with the company's Commercial, Access, Regulatory and Development teams, and external stakeholders to develop post-marketing strategies that address key data gaps that are aligned with unmet medical needs. 

Position Responsibilities 

• Ability to lead and develop a cross-country organization with strength in medical, clinical practice and scientific expertise. 

• Ability to motivate and engage an organization and lead through transformation (i.e., launch, integration, divestiture, new partnerships). 

• Strong external customer focus and the ability to rapidly build a comprehensive and efficient network of external relationships. 

• Ability to lead and influence at the company level, cooperating with global matrix functions, commercial, Clinical Operations  and R&D teams. 

• Excellent communication skills, and ability to represent BMS and complex scientific evidence at medical meetings and congresses. 

• Depth of knowledge in therapeutic areas. 

• Driving leadership and strategy in gaining access across all countries. 

• Ability to lead Alliance partnerships across markets. 

• Ensuring compliance in a dynamic business environment. 

• Talent & Culture management. Embedding the BMS People Strategy and ensuring employee engagement, attraction, development and retention of talent. 

Education & Experience Requirements 

• Advanced degree required; MD preferred, with 10-15 + years of pharmaceutical leadership experience 

• Demonstrated track record of leadership in a complex, matrix environment. Experience delivering successful results in a variety of business situations. 

• Experience building and delivering Medical capabilities in a complex global organization 

• Successful track record of leading through influence and working across complex, global organizational matrices 

Leadership Capabilities 

• Enterprise Mindset: Makes decisions, set priorities and creates strategies based on what will benefit the whole. They build and maintain networks within and outside of the organization to both strengthen their understanding of the big picture, the market dynamics and business value drivers and leverage diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise to maximize performance.  

• Authentic Leadership: Builds legitimacy through cultivating honest relationships. They generate trust by demonstrating the highest level of consistency between their words and their actions, especially under pressure. They are role models and promote an environment of openness. 

• Change Agility: Is constantly thinking ahead and scanning the environment for opportunities. They are able to navigate ambiguity for themselves by demonstrating smart risk taking and personal resilience. They lead others through change by focusing individuals and teams on the highest priorities and simplifying work, continuously creating the context and engaging individuals. Talent Development Maintains a current and strategic view of talent management aligned with the organization’s priorities. This includes an understanding of the needs and diversity of the organization’s current and future talent. In addition, they proactively develop talent across the organization and engage external talent. 

This role is a HQ based position with up to  40%+ international/domestic travel requirement. 

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.

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