Associate Director, Cell Therapy, Medical Communications

1 month ago


Madison, Wisconsin, United States Bristol Myers Squibb Full time
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Position Summary

Position reports to the Director of Medical Communications within Cell Therapy and is responsible for the strategy and execution of medical communication plans. This role will ensure the disclosure of the science and health economic value of BMS products and research data to inform Healthcare Providers, Patients, and Payers in accordance with local regulations.

Key Responsibilities

The Associate Director of Medical Communications is accountable for the following:

Medical Communications Strategy:
  • Establishing a clear, viable and compelling strategy for the Medical Communications, aligned with overall Medical vision, strategy and objectives, and ensure delivery of timely and high-quality medical publications, scientific content, medical education, medical information, and congress presentations.
  • Understand the communication needs across markets and own the pull-through and execution of the Scientific Narrative, development & execution of functionally integrated publication plan, content plan, and application to the Scientific Communication Platform (SCP).
  • Lead development of medical communications and ensure timely journal submissions, publications, congress presentations, and deliver of internal and external scientific content
  • Must have strong business acumen, ability to interface with matrix partners to make trade-off decisions by managing Medical Communications budget and allocation of funds and resources to highest business priorities.
Data Dissemination:
  • Serve as a subject matter expert to BMS internal audiences related to communication landscape, HCP preferences, publication and scientific content planning, data disclosure / dissemination, and represent BMS scientific communications to external investigators, key authors and journal editors.
  • Leading internal process improvements to ensure BMS remains an ethical and credible leader in the practice of publications & scientific content; leading transformation efforts and for ensuring BMS publication & scientific content standards are aligned with Good Publication Practices and industry standards, and all BMS employees engaged in publication activities follow Good Publication Practices guidance with the highest degree of integrity, quality and transparency.
  • Providing oversight to the team for the development and execution of functionally integrated and aligned medical communications plans; adjust communications plans in accordance with clinical trial results/milestones and changes in the healthcare landscape
  • Demonstrates scientific/research expertise to support the establishment of strong working collaborations with both internal and external disease-area experts to ensure quality data analysis, interpretation, communication planning & data disclosure/dissemination.
  • Ensures collection of insights to deliver high quality medical communication that enables the most impactful dialogue and interactions with customers.
  • Identifies and drives opportunities to enhance processes, tools, operating procedures, and outsourcing strategy to ensure consistent delivery and alignment of standards
Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Fostering collaborative relationships with academic & clinical experts, publishers, medical associations & other relevant key stakeholder groups; participating in external initiatives to foster trust and respect amongst academic and medical publishing community
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders across the Medical matrix (e.g., the country and regional medical directors) and other Scientific Communications & Engagement team (e.g., Customer Engagement, Field Medical Excellence, Congress Strategy, Training & Compliance) to leverage external insights to inform medical communications planning
  • Partners externally with 3rd party vendors to ensure the appropriate balance of internal and external execution of work
  • Establishes clear metrics aligned to meeting customer needs and demonstrating desired outcomes of activities. Regularly communicates metrics with key stakeholders
Qualifications & Experience
  • Advance scientific degree, PharmD, PhD or MD preferred
  • 7-10 years of Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry experience with a focus on medical communications; experience in both local country & global preferred
  • Experience of leading a large team or multiple teams; and demonstrated strength in leading teams to high performance
  • Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance, build alignment, inform, negotiate and collaborate
  • Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment, and develop teams with a focus on quick deliverables
  • Experience leading cross-functional, cross-cultural project teams, and collaborating across matrix, multiple markets and global geographies
  • Demonstrated success driving optimal business results in a large complex corporate environment with multiple priorities and tight timelines
  • Ability to manage timelines and quality of work using strong leadership, organizational, communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills
  • Proven experience establishing strategic direction for teams, and proven ability to achieve set objectives; ability to take educated risk, rise above technical expertise; demonstrating judgement, wisdom and understanding of impact
  • Experience with change leadership and appreciation for complexity of leading teams through change
  • Experience leading medical communications across all phases of drug development and commercialization
  • Ability to analyze and interpret trial data
  • Ability to influence and negotiate appropriate solutions; ability to establish strong stakeholder relationships
  • Ability to travel
Knowledge Desired
  • Pharmaceutical/Healthcare Industry
  • External compliance, transparency and conflict-of-interest regulated work environments
  • In-depth knowledge of Good Publication Practices and guidance (GPP, ICMJE), Sunshine Act, Pharma Code of Conduct, and other guidance related to post-marketing practices and scientific data communication
  • Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP), and ISMPP active member highly desired
  • Understanding of clinical trial design and execution, statistical methods and clinical trial data reporting requirements
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft suite of applications, and familiar with publication management tool (DataVision).
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On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse 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.

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