What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Thoracic/Head position at Bristol-Myers Squibb?
Thoracic/Head & Neck Oncology Medical Expert
At Bristol Myers Squibb, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals who are passionate about transforming patients' lives through science. As a Thoracic/Head & Neck Oncology Medical Expert, you will play a critical role in advancing our mission by engaging in meaningful peer-to-peer scientific dialog with healthcare system National Thought Leaders (NTLs) within a defined geography.
Your primary responsibilities will include conducting critical activities that support advancing science, educating on evolving clinical practices, transforming science into patient care, and facilitating the development of new research collaborations (including Investigator Initiated Trials and Real-World Evidence). You will collaborate with colleagues on capturing medical insights and act as a therapeutic area resource to cross-functional partners. Engagement with TLs should be aligned with medical strategies, and you should provide insight back to home office to inform strategy.
This role is field-based and regional in scope. It is anticipated that the employee will spend ~ 50 - 60% of the time in the field interacting with external stakeholders, including investigators and clinical thought leaders while supporting internal stakeholders and maintaining a high level of therapeutic expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
At Bristol Myers Squibb, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals who are passionate about transforming patients' lives through science. As a Thoracic/Head & Neck Oncology Medical Expert, you will play a critical role in advancing our mission by engaging in meaningful peer-to-peer scientific dialog with healthcare system National Thought Leaders (NTLs) within a defined geography.
Your primary responsibilities will include conducting critical activities that support advancing science, educating on evolving clinical practices, transforming science into patient care, and facilitating the development of new research collaborations (including Investigator Initiated Trials and Real-World Evidence). You will collaborate with colleagues on capturing medical insights and act as a therapeutic area resource to cross-functional partners. Engagement with TLs should be aligned with medical strategies, and you should provide insight back to home office to inform strategy.
This role is field-based and regional in scope. It is anticipated that the employee will spend ~ 50 - 60% of the time in the field interacting with external stakeholders, including investigators and clinical thought leaders while supporting internal stakeholders and maintaining a high level of therapeutic expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engaging in high-quality peer-to-peer scientific dialog with key National Thought Leaders in Oncology focused on pre- and peri-launch period.
- Collaborates with NTLs to identify and generate insights on evolving care paradigms to inform medical strategy
- Provides strategic input into materials for national medical congresses. Collects meaningful medical insights and communicates to the medical and commercial organizations to support strategy development and business decisions
- Facilitates scientific partnerships and research collaborations in collaboration with Global Drug Development (GDD)
- Provides recommendations and insights to the clinical development team on study feasibilities within the therapeutic area based on knowledge of the field and through direct contacts with potential investigators, as agreed with home office medical and Global Development Operations (GDO)
- Proactively leads BMS major evidence readouts to investigators partnering with GDD. Reactively discuss major evidence readouts with other thought-leaders
- Liaises with large key accounts to understand clinical levers and barriers to patient access in the context of clinical trials
- Effectively collaborates and communicates with NTLs to gain insights into the clinical landscape
- Engages in scientific and clinical conversation to ensure the development of a product/disease area-focused medical plan that translates into effective launch and Life Cycle Maintenance (LCM) activities
- Responsible for conducting evidence read-outs with the most prominent institutions, e.g., Phase 3 top-line data.
- Engages with medical societies, Patient Advocacy Groups, and guideline discussions as appropriate.
- Engage account-level decision makers in selected Academic Medical Centers to help identify barriers and solutions to improve patient care and outcomes
- 10 years of relevant experience with emphasis on lung cancers or lung cancer specialty
- MD recruited from top clinical practice and hospital-academic centers
- Proven record of developing high impact peer-to-peer relationships and influence with high impact NTLs
- Strong Oncology experience required:
- scientific or clinical area, patient treatment trends, clinical landscape
- pharmaceutical industry, including compliance and regulatory guidelines
- clinical trial design and process
- national and regional healthcare and access environment - Working in a scientific and/or clinical research environment.
- Deep understanding of NTL environment and needs.
- Scientific Agility
- Patient centricity
- Customer/commercial mindset
- Teamwork/Enterprise mindset
