Scientist, Exploratory Biopharmaceutics

**Working with Us**
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

**Drug Product Development (DPD)**

Our Drug Product Development team is committed to CMC design, development, and commercialization of innovative drug products to improve patient lives. We leverage the best people, collaboration, and cutting-edge innovation to achieve this commitment. BMS's internal engine of innovation includes unrivaled industry leading expertise in CMC development of small molecules, protein biotherapeutics, protein degraders, and other therapeutic modalities. We collaborate closely with our colleagues in R&D and Commercial to design our drug products. Here, you'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope.

**Position Summary**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Key member of a dynamic scientifically driven team, dedicated to the design, development, and characterization of small molecule drug product formulations.
- Perform physico-chemical characterization and pre-formulation activities to inform early-stage risk assessment and formulation strategy.
- Develop oral and parenteral formulations to support clinical and preclinical studies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to develop and optimize formulations and support technology transfer to CMOs and/or other sites for manufacturing and scale up activities.
- Develop experimental protocols and execute in vitro biorelevant dissolution studies for NCEs and drug products.
- Prepare technical reports, batch records, SOPs, manuscripts, and oral presentations as required.
- Support preparation of CMC regulatory documents.
- Support departmental initiatives for assigned projects and methodologies.
- Maintain safety, regulatory, and compliance standards as they relate to the development of pharmaceuticals.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Degree in Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline; **Ph.D.** with 0-2 years industrial or post-doc experience, **M.S.** with 2+ years industrial experience or **B.S**. with 5+ years industrial experience.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of physical pharmacy, fundamentals of pre-formulation, chemistry, stability, and fundamental principles of pharmaceutical science essential for the development of oral and injectable dosage forms.
- Hands on experience with analytical tools including HPLC and dissolution apparatus required.
- Hands on experience in formulation development, pharmaceutical processing related to drug product development preferred.
- Experience with designing and developing novel delivery technologies is desired, such as particulate systems (nano or micro), hydrogel depots, lipid matrices, etc.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills demonstrating effectiveness as a team player on multidisciplinary teams resourced in a flexible and global environment is required.

LI-Onsite

**Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers**

**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.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

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