Director, Medical Safety Assessment Physician

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Director, Medical Safety Assessment Physician to lead safety activities and benefit-risk strategies for assigned compounds. This role involves overseeing safety review documents, managing emerging safety signals, leading safety labeling activities, and acting as a Subject Matter Expert for regulatory product labeling. The position also includes participating in cross-functional labeling team meetings, providing regional safety labeling support, and leading process improvement projects. The Director will assist the MSA Therapeutic Area Head/Lead in developing and maintaining state-of-the-art Pharmacovigilance (PV) processes and procedures. Additionally, they will support the EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (PV) or other regional/local Qualified Persons, provide input to R&D publication strategy, and represent WWPS at Health Authority (HA) and Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) meetings. The role emphasizes efficiency, quality, accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to global regulatory requirements and cost-effectiveness goals, while also promoting collegiality, teamwork, and mentorship.

Requirements

• MD/equivalent required.
• Postgraduate qualification or experience in internal medicine, immunology, oncology, or related specialty desirable.
• Other relevant experiences & accomplishments considered, such as roles in clinical research, observational research & clinical practice experience.
• 3+ years in PV or relevant pharmaceutical or biomedical field (eg, Medical, Clinical, Regulatory) is strongly preferred.
• Other relevant experiences & accomplishments considered, such as roles in clinical research, observational research & clinical practice experience.
• Understanding of the drug development process.
• Knowledge of PV and ability to apply knowledge to evaluation of safety concerns and minimization of patient risk throughout the life cycle of a drug product.
• Proficient ability to leverage the range of available tools to investigate safety concerns, including the science of observational research.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements for safety assessment and action.
• Strong scientific analytical reasoning skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Behavioral competencies necessary to work and lead within a complex matrix environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Postgraduate qualification or experience in internal medicine, immunology, oncology, or related specialty desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety activities and benefit-risk strategies for assigned BMS compounds/program and chair the product Safety Management Team(s).
• Oversee, Prepare, and/or Review aggregate safety review documents as well as safety sections of relevant clinical trial documents and regulatory filings.
• Lead team in the evaluation & management of signals emerging from any data source.
• Develop strategy for signal evaluation and document outcome.
• Lead safety labeling activities for assigned products/ program.
• Act as the Safety Subject Matter Expert for input to regulatory product labeling.
• Participate/ Provide input at cross-functional labeling team meetings and provide regional safety labeling support.
• Lead process improvement projects.
• Assist the MSA Therapeutic Area (TA) Head/Lead in developing and maintaining state-of-the-art PV processes and procedures within BMS R&D and WWPS.
• Support the EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (PV) or other regional or local Qualified Person for PV relative to issues relating to assigned products.
• Provide input to R&D publication strategy/ plan & ensure safety input to publications/ presentations.
• Actively drive safety strategy preparation and Represent WWPS at Health Authority (HA) and Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) meetings.
• Ensure that the above tasks are performed in the most efficient manner possible commensurate with quality, accuracy, and timeliness and in accordance with current global regulatory requirements and BMS cost effectiveness goals.
• Promote collegiality and teamwork among peers.
• Mentor/Support colleagues as a positive change agent.
• Act as the global safety lead for assigned compounds in development.
• Provide safety lead support for global submission document production.
• Review draft summary documents.
• Lead medical safety development and execution of benefit-risk management strategies for assigned products.
• Provide safety input to clinical development plans, study protocols, amendments, IB, statistical analysis plan (SAP), ICF, CSR, responses to HA or institutional review board (IRB)/ ethics committee (EC) queries.
• Lead development of safety risk language, risk management strategy, pre-filing safety activities including safety table shells, integrated safety data review, integrated safety summary document review, and safety-focused publication development.
• Perform medical safety review of DSUR, annual reports and other periodic safety submissions.
• Support safety strategy preparation for pre-submission meetings, Advisory Committee meetings, Scientific Advice meetings, DMC meetings, etc.
• Act as the safety lead for assigned marketed compounds and support global postmarketing safety activities and submissions.
• Provide medical safety, benefit-risk input for safety aggregate reports, product renewal submissions, postmarketing study documents and reports, responses to HA queries.
• Lead medical safety oversight of and execution of risk management strategies and RMP elements for assigned products.
• Lead safety signal evaluation & management.
• Prepare and Review reports on safety signals (ie, Safety Topic Reviews/ Signal Reports) and ad hoc regulatory responses.
• Provide postmarketing safety study guidance to other groups including epidemiology and medical affairs including but not limited to investigator-sponsored research (ISR), epidemiology studies, and non-interventional safety studies.
• Ensure safety labeling adequately reflects emerging postmarketing safety profile.
• Support preparation for regulatory inspections with evaluation of current processes and assess alignment with regulatory expectations, guidelines, and mandates.
• Assist the team and senior management in all forms of issue management and crisis management.
• Liaise with all TA staff and maintain an effective and collaborative patient safety team.
• Support hiring & orientation.
• Provide input to strategic plans for safety differentiation of BMS products.
• Prepare and Provide training to BMS employees on product safety profiles/issues.
• Act as WWPS liaison for assigned products with BMS functions (Legal, BD, Operations, Marketing, etc.).
• Support manufacturing quality.
• Co-Author integrated health hazard assessments.
• Develop communications of safety data & interpretation to BMS and external parties, globally.

Benefits

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
• Work-life benefits include: Paid Time Off US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees) Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays
• Based on eligibility, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
• All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree