Therapeutic Area Specialist Oncology - Podkarpacie or Tarnów

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 Therapeutic Area Specialist Oncology (TAS) – based in Podkarpacie or Tarnów - will have part of Małopolskie, Podkarpackie & part of Lubelskie as work area and will play a critical role in our unique customer model to execute the BMS aspiration to be the BioPharma that delivers the most impactful engagement with Health Care Providers (HCPs), driving adoption of new and existing medicines for appropriate patients. 

The primary role of the TAS is to promote BMS medicines within their portfolio for the appropriate patients. To meet the HCPs expectations, the TAS engages them with a differentiated Customer Experience (Cx) through deeper scientific dialogue and consistent with label. The role builds and maintains strong professional credibility with community-based physicians/HCPs, regional thought leaders (RTLs) and other stakeholders in the patient care continuum as their primary point of contact. The TAS liaises with other BMS functions as needed to deliver an overall higher Customer Experience (Cx) – by meeting HCP needs in a timely and scientific manner. This role will prioritize the safe and appropriate use of BMS products while also focusing on overall business results and performance objectives while exemplifying BMS values. 

The TAS role is field based, as a TAS is anticipated to spend their time in the field with external customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Promotion

-Promotes approved indications of BMS products within a defined territory to meet or exceed assigned targets in a compliant manner.
-Articulates in a balanced manner the clinical and scientific rationale for use of products in appropriate patients.
-Engages with and continuously maintains/grows a high level of scientific expertise in all assigned products and therapeutic areas.
-Prepares and successfully implements  account plans.
-Proactively uses available tools and technology to derive insights and to dynamically inform call plans. Provides feedback on experience using these tools to leadership to enable continuous improvement.

Fair & Balanced Scientific Dialogue

- Demonstrates scientific expertise and passion in using approved scientific resources and publications to present information to HCPs and ensures medical accuracy.
- Conducts in-office (hospital and medical practice) presentations and discusses product-related scientific information / studies with HCPs that is consistent with label.

- Maintains a high level of working expertise on emerging data for approved indications.
- Engages medical support to reactively answer unsolicited questions and complex technical inquiries.

Cross-functional collaboration

- Proactively collaborates with other field teams to ensure the best Customer Experience (Cx) for HCPs. 
- Gathers and shares relevant insights and information internally with the appropriate stakeholders to enable BMS to better serve its customers.

Complies with all laws, regulations, and policies that govern the conduct of BMS.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Advanced scientific degree; preferred: 5+ years experience in pharmaceutical / biotechnology industry as medical representative / MSL, healthcare experience as HCP.

• Experience in drug programs (programy lekowe) required

• Experience in TA would be an advantage

• Ability to communicate scientific or clinical data accurately and convincingly to help physicians best serve their patients.

• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining strong credibility with key customers, office staff, and others in the customer influence network via a customer-centric mindset and desire to create positive and differentiated Customer Experience (Cx).

• Demonstrated strong capability in account management skill sets, superior selling competencies, and proven performance track record of meeting or exceeding goals.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively cross-functionally with a positive team mindset and can-do attitude. 

• Strong promotional skills proven through a track record of performance.

• Good written and spoken local language and English skills

Key competencies desired:

Change agility - The ability of individuals, teams, and organizations to adapt, respond, and thrive in the face of change and ambiguity.

Scientific agility - Ability to understand the application of science to the business by staying up-to-date in the rapidly changing landscape of scientific advancement to address the needs and challenges of healthcare professionals and organizations.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate scientific and clinical data in an easy-to-understand manner to help HCPs best serve their patients.

• Has a strong learning mindset.  Prioritizes staying current with the latest data.

• Understands the patient journey and experience.

Customer engagement - The ability to effectively engage, influence and partner with HCPs, utilising all communication channels, to competitively position BMS medicines and solutions.

Customer/Commercial mindset - Adopting a strategic and customer-focused perspective to competitively drive business success and growth.

• Demonstrated ability to drive business results.

• Experience identifying, engaging, and cultivating relationships with customers across the patient care journey.

• Demonstrated account management skills and problem-solving mentality. Understands the flow of patients through practice and can customize engagement and deliver tailored messages.

• Demonstrated resourcefulness and ability to create access.

• Project Management Experience

Teamwork/Enterprise mindset - An approach that prioritizes collaboration, shared goals, and collective success within a team or organization to deliver an exceptional customer experience.

• Strong business acumen to understand and analyze business and market drivers and develop, execute, and adjust business plans.

• Demonstrates a strong sense of learning agility. Seeks out and learns from unfamiliar experiences, and then applies those lessons to achieve better results in subsequent situations.

• Track record of balancing individual drive and collaborative attitude.

• Holds a high level of integrity and good judgment, in order to navigate the requirements of the role effectively and compliantly in accordance with BMS policies and procedures.

Digital agility - The ability to adapt, thrive, and excel in the rapidly evolving digital landscape harnessing digital technologies to increase customer engagement and overall competitiveness.

• Understanding, adapting, and effectively using technology in various aspects of healthcare business and interacting with HCPs.

• Utilizing various digital communication channels to stay in touch with healthcare professionals, and colleagues. This enables them to respond promptly to inquiries, share updates, and maintain effective communication.

• Competency using technologies and other software or CRM tools to collect, enter, and manage quality HCP data in a timely manner, track interactions, and plan future engagements with healthcare professionals.

• Keeping up to date with technological advancements and changes.

Analytical mindset - An approach with a strong emphasis on critical thinking, logical reasoning, and data-driven decision-making to identify and capitalise on the best opportunities for BMS.

• Ability to analyze data, such as prescribing patterns, market trends, and HCP preferences. Data-driven insights help them strategize and target their efforts effectively.

• Ability to segment HCPs based on their preferences, prescribing patterns, and other relevant factors. This helps them tailor their communication and product presentations to suit individual HCP needs.

• Understanding how to interpret and analyze data related to BMS products, customer preferences, clinical data.

• Ability to generate and use insights to dynamic call planning.

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Field - Poland - PL: zł170,920 - zł207,112

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. The final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience and in accordance with pay equity principles and applicable employment laws.

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.

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