Senior Manager, Intercon Market Medical Communications
Company: Bristol Myers Squibb
Location: Grady
Posted on: May 21, 2023
Job Description:
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to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that
transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do
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uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in
diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
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flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of
competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our
employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work
and in their personal lives. Read more: .
Locations: Remote by design for US only; Uxbridge UK, Boudry
Switzerland
Position Summary
Position reports to the Director of Intercontinental Markets
Medical Communications within Medical Communications under
Scientific Communications & Engagement of Global Medical Affairs
and is responsible for the planning and timely execution of
scientifically accurate and strategically aligned communications
plan that support the local medical communication needs of the
Intercontinental Markets.
Key Responsibilities
A core member of Intercontinental Market Medical Communications
Team, the Sr. Manager of Intercontinental Markets Medical
Communications is accountable for the following:
Medical Communications Strategy:
- Leads across the BMS matrix to develop and timely delivery of
strategically aligned medical publications, scientific content,
medical information, training content, and congress presentations
at local market level
- Ensures endorsement of medical communications plans by relevant
governance bodies prior to execution, and continuously develops and
maintains plans in conjunction with scientific landscape and in
alignment with Local Market Medical, Worldwide (WW) Medical and
medical market-level strategy
- Serves as the Intercontinental Markets Medical Communications
point of contact between WW/Local Medical, and other matrix
partners
- Provides medical communications management oversight to Local
Market Medical
- Enhances bi-directional communication by understanding and
sharing the WW medical communications plans to Local Market Medical
and raises local market needs to WW Medical/Medical Communications
teams, ensuring country/global level of awareness &
connectivity
- Understand the communication needs across Intercontinental
Market and own the pull-through and execution of the Scientific
Narrative, development & execution of functionally integrated
publication plan, content plan, and application to the Scientific
Communication Platform (SCP).
- Must have strong business acumen, ability to interface with
market matrix partners & manage Market-level Medical Communications
budget Data Dissemination:
- Serve as a subject matter expert to BMS internal audiences
related to Market-level communication landscape, HCP preferences,
publication and scientific content planning, data disclosure /
dissemination, and represent BMS scientific communications to
external investigators, key authors and journal editors.
- Promotes and reinforces principles among authors and internal
publication stakeholder community, ensuring publications are
authored, written, and reviewed according to publication best
practices and BMS standards and policies for Intercontinental
Markets and for ensuring BMS publication & scientific content
standards are aligned with Good Publication Practices and industry
standards, and all BMS employees engaged in publication activities
follow Good Publication Practices guidance with the highest degree
of integrity, quality and transparency.
- Demonstrates understanding of therapeutic disease areas,
market-level expertise to support the establishment of strong
working collaborations with both internal and external disease-area
experts to ensure quality data analysis, interpretation,
communication planning & data disclosure/dissemination.
- Ensures collection of market-level insights to deliver high
quality medical communication that enables the most impactful
dialogue and interactions with customers at the market level.
- Identifies and drives opportunities to enhance processes,
tools, operating procedures, and outsourcing strategy to ensure
consistent delivery and alignment of standards across Markets.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Fostering collaborative relationships with academic & clinical
experts, publishers, medical associations & other relevant market
stakeholder groups; participating in external initiatives to foster
trust and respect amongst academic and medical publishing
community
- Partners with TA Medical Communication Leads, Market Medical
and other stakeholder to assess, plan, and allocate resources
(budget, medical writing, biostatistical services) to ensure timely
delivery of high-quality medical communications
- Partners externally with 3rd party vendors to ensure the
appropriate balance of internal and external execution of work
- Establishes clear metrics aligned & regularly communicates
metrics with key markets medical stakeholders Other
responsibilities:
- High performing, externally focused which emphasizes teamwork,
cooperation, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality;
models BMS behaviors and reinforces such behaviors at all levels in
the organization
- Serve as mentor to other leads.
- Ensure preparation for audit and inspection readiness
- Ensuring diversity and inclusion in decision making,
organization and talent development Qualifications & Experience
- Advance scientific degree, PharmD, PhD or MD preferred
- 2+ years of Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry experience with
a focus on medical communications; experience in both local country
& global preferred
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance,
build alignment, inform, negotiate and collaborate
- Experience working cross-functional, with cross-cultural
project teams, and collaborating across matrix, markets and global
geographies
- Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment &
demonstrated success driving optimal business results in a large
complex corporate environment with multiple priorities and tight
timelines
- Ability to manage timelines and quality of work using strong
leadership, organizational, communication, facilitation and
interpersonal skills
- Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
skills with exceptional time management skills
- Experience leading medical communications across all phases of
drug development and commercialization
- Ability to analyze and interpret trial data
- Ability to influence and negotiate appropriate solutions;
ability to establish strong stakeholder relationships
- Ability to flexibly schedule and participate in teleconferences
and virtual meetings across different time zones
- Ability to travel (domestically and internationally) Knowledge
Desired
- Pharmaceutical/Healthcare Industry
- External compliance, transparency and conflict-of-interest
regulated work environments
- In-depth knowledge of Good Publication Practices and guidance
(GPP, ICMJE), Sunshine Act, Pharma Code of Conduct, and other
guidance related to post-marketing practices and scientific data
communication
- Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP), and ISMPP
active member highly desired
- Understanding of clinical trial design and execution,
statistical methods and clinical trial data reporting
requirements
- Working knowledge of Microsoft suite of applications, and
familiar with publication management tool (DataVision). The
starting compensation for this job is a range from $109,000
-$138,000, 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.
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may
vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please
visit our BMS Careers site.
Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the
applicable plans then in effect and may include the following:
Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such
as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance
programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K).
Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term
disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business
travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include
paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown days
between Christmas and New Year's holiday, up to 120 hours of paid
vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and
summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and
military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy
reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for
traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other
perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.
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