Director, Medical Safety Assessment Physician

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

2d • 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/programs. This role involves chairing Product Safety Management Teams, overseeing safety review documents, leading signal evaluation, and managing safety labeling activities. The position also contributes to process improvement, supports regulatory filings, and acts as a Safety Subject Matter Expert. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and representation at health authority meetings, ensuring efficient and high-quality execution of safety assessments in compliance with global regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• MD/equivalent required.
• Postgraduate qualification or experience in psychiatry or neurology preferred.
• 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 psychiatry or neurology preferred.

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 safety 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 PS.
• 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 PS 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, safety-focused publication development.
• Perform medical safety review of development update safety reports, 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.
• Assist the MSA TA Head/Lead in developing and maintaining state-of-the-art PV processes and procedures within BMS R&D and PS.
• 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 PS 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

• Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• 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.
• flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees))
• 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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