Associate Director, Global Clinical Physician

Working with Us
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. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and 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: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

As an Associate Director, Global Clinical Physician at BMS, you will sit at the heart of our clinical development engine — providing medical leadership, scientific expertise, and strategic oversight across Phase 1–3 trials. This is a high-impact role for a physician who thrives in a matrix environment and is driven by the challenge of bringing transformative medicines to patients.

Medical Monitoring

• Serve as the primary source of medical accountability and oversight across your portfolio of clinical trials
• Lead medical data review, eligibility assessments, and safety evaluations in close partnership with Worldwide Patient Safety
• Drive site interactions, safety narrative oversight, and GCP compliance as core responsibilities
• Collaborate with Global Clinical Scientists on protocol development, contributing medical and scientific judgment on inclusion/exclusion criteria and safety considerations

Clinical Development Strategy

• Partner with Clinical Development Leads to design robust clinical plans and protocols grounded in deep disease area knowledge and competitive landscape awareness
• Lead benefit/risk analyses and support study execution across site activation, enrollment, and protocol deviation adjudication
• Build and maintain relationships with principal investigators and key opinion leaders to shape emerging science and study design
• Stay at the forefront of your therapeutic area through active engagement with scientific literature and conferences

Regulatory and External Engagement

• Represent BMS at Health Authority interactions and advisory board meetings
• Author and contribute to clinical study reports, regulatory briefing documents, submission materials, and clinical narratives

• MD or equivalent required
• 3+ years of pharmaceutical industry and/or clinical trials experience
• Subspecialty training in the relevant therapeutic area is an advantage
• Strong command of clinical and statistical methodology, drug development processes, and regulatory requirements
• Proven leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required

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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 a supportive culture, promoting global participation 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 an 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.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Bristol Myers Squibb is Disability Confident – Employer

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