What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Translational Medicine, Late Stage Neurology position at Bristol-Myers Squibb?
Director, Translational Medicine, Late Stage Neurology
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San Diego - CA - US
Brisbane - CA - US
Cambridge Crossing - MA - US
Time Type
Full time
Posted on
Posted 12 Days Ago
Job Requisition ID
R1587696
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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.
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Summary / Scope
Reporting to Senior Scientific Director Translational Medicine (TM), the Director will be part of the late stage TM group. The individual will be a translational team lead for neurological and neuropsychiatric indications and be responsible for setting strategy for translational activities including clinical biomarker activities to support drug development programs. This individual will assume translational lead responsibilities for assets such as serving as a TM representative on global program teams, biomarker representative on study teams, setting up biomarker plans for individual trials and ensuring appropriate collection and timely analysis and reporting of final biomarker data. The individual will also be responsible for answering key TM questions related to the assigned assets and diseases via collaboration with TM laboratory team and / or academic thought leaders. The successful candidate will have prior therapeutic area and late development clinical experience in biotech / pharma organizations interacting with project teams, clinical research physicians, statisticians, computational biologists, contract research organizations and translational scientists to deliver science that supports the development of medicines to patients in need.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following :
- Designs and implements program-specific late development biomarker / translational plans, responsible for aiding in creation of clinical protocols, SAPs, SOWs, lab manual, and interfacing with CRO for execution of services, in conjunction with Biospecimen Operations and Procurement.
- Determines appropriate assays and vendors for clinical biomarkers, and manages outsourcing of biomarker assay development and validation partnering with Translational Sciences colleagues when applicable.
- Manages clinical biomarker data delivery and analysis and associated timelines by working with relevant internal functions and CROs.
- Prepares and delivers internal and external translational / biomarker presentations.
- Maintains timelines for biomarker data related publication through interaction with Medical Communications and Publication team as needed.
- Keeps up-to-date on relevant scientific / technical literature in order to applying external knowledge to internal research programs as appropriate and acts as a subject-matter expert within the team to critically evaluate the literature regarding the asset and disease biology.
- Works with TM laboratory scientists and academic TLs to address nonclinical translational questions.
- Participates in post-hoc biomarker analysis and publication efforts.
- Supports regulatory submissions and regulatory interactions as needed.
Skills / Knowledge Required
Basic Qualifications :
8 years of academic and / or industry experience.
Plus :
For CA, based candidates only : The starting compensation for this job is a range from $220,000 - $280,000, plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).
The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.
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Salary : $220,000 - $280,000
