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Position Summary

The Sr. Scientific Advisor is responsible to actively engage with Thought Leaders and to serve as the Therapeutic Area (TA) reference point within their geographic scope. The Sr. SA is responsible to design and deliver the medical plan, provide medical support to internal matrix partners, and support clinical trial activities.

1. External Environment and Customer Focus

• Role model in developing and maintaining peer-to-peer relationships and close contacts with Thought Leaders, appropriate HCPs, and access stakeholders, within a given geography to answer unsolicited product and HEOR related questions.

• Master proficiency in available scientific resources and presentations. Effectively present information to HCPs, as appropriate, ensuring medical accuracy and compliance with local procedures, ethical and legal guidelines and directives.

• Actively profile the medical and competitive landscape to effectively evolve planning at the market level within the medical team and matrix leadership teams, as appropriate.

• Collect, analyze and present meaningful medical insights back to the medical and commercial organizations at brand team meetings to be actioned in support of the strategy development.

2. Design and Deliver the Medical Plan

• Deliver scientifically meaningful medical programs proposals and ensure flawless execution of medical activities to support overarching medical plan execution.

• Discuss and deliver Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) evidence based information reactively (ie, to government agencies, healthcare organizations, and payers), as appropriate.

3. Provide Medical Support

• Lead cross functional collaboration within matrix teams to ensure appropriate embedding of the medical perspective and aligned focus in key critical execution to achieve overall medical strategies and objectives.

• Represent medical as a key reference point for internal stakeholders and a regional reference for other SA’s (mentor or coach); demonstrate the ability to train SA’s by supporting with role play simulations and/or co-visits, while acting as a role model.

• Facilitate continuous improvement towards higher quality work and promote innovation within the local team.

4. Support Clinical Trial Activities

• Contribute to the “early prioritization” of development programs for the country by collating and integrating data on disease incidence / prevalence, treatment patterns, unmet medical needs and interest from the scientific community, as appropriate; Serve as point of reference for compounds in early development

• Actively track study performance and contribute with insights and solutions

• Ensure that BMS Pharmacovigilance procedural documents are understood and applied by Investigators of local studies, and alert appropriate BMS personnel to any identified Adverse Events.

5. Additional Sr. SA Responsibilities

• Deliver the medical / scientific sections of pricing and reimbursement files

• Act as medical study director / study monitor, if appropriate and in agreement with local medical management

• Identify local needs and provide input into NRDG strategy development

• Provide strategic input into the development of Brand plans and drive the development and execution of the medical plan and related TL interaction plans. May contribute to regional / Worldwide medical plans.

• Actively provide coaching through customer facing field visits for scientific advisor

Profile Requirements

Required Experience

• Medical doctor (physician), PharmD or PhD, with experience in a specific Disease Area or with a broad medical background Or Science graduate with substantial and relevant pharmaceutical experience

• Extensive knowledge and/or experience of healthcare and access environments as per criteria through the WW Medical Competency Framework.

• Expertise in and knowledge of the medical organization and our products, as evaluated through the WW Medical Competency Framework.

• Achievement of exceeding performance & behaviour measures as defined by WW Medical calibration process & WW Promotion Process for internal BMS candidates.

• For external candidates as demonstrated through CV, first line manager interview of candidate, and reference feedback.

Knowledge Desired

• Therapeutic Area point of reference for internal/external stakeholders with superior disease Area knowledge and understanding scientific publications

• Expert knowledge of a scientific or clinical area

• Expert knowledge of relevant BMS products highly desirable.

• Expert of clinical trial design and process

• Demonstrated track record of the above

Experience Desired

• Training others and working as a mentor

• Market / Regional / WW initiative contribution which generated value to the organization

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

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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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Req Number: R1581026

Updated: 2024-05-18 02:14:25.663 UTC

Location: Budapest-HUN

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