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Position Summary:- Coordinate with partner counterpart with focus on overall portfolio delivery including ensuring timely execution of the book of work while adhering to the MSA and Quality Agreement.
- Co-lead with vendor partner and drive efficient and effective governance meetings, including Operational Management Committees and additional project meetings as necessary.
- Liaise with internal teams, regional colleagues, key subject matter experts and stakeholders in other functions and within partner's organization to embed the operational model, and to identify and resolve issues and gaps.
- Drive collaborative continuous improvement initiatives with the partner to streamline and improve operational processes.
Position Responsibilities:- Drive communication with internal and external partners to align on operational processes.
- Collaborate with the BMS quality organization and partner to drive, implement, and operationalize effective quality management of clinical trials.
- Support MSA/partnership contract negotiations as necessary.
- Collaborate with other BMS business units that outsource clinical trials to ensure alignment of information, best practices, and to standardize processes where applicable.
- Provide outsourcing perspective and vendor capabilities to ensure proactive consideration of impact to outsourced studies.
- Support the onboarding of new partnerships and responsibilities associated with change management.
- Portfolio and priority study-level escalation point of contact. Act as escalation point for trending lab issues, issues that BMS team members are unable to resolve directly with the vendor, and partnership scale issues.
- Monitor key performance indicators/metrics across portfolio and vendors to identify trends related to issues and successes within each category.
Qualifications & Experience:- Bachelor's degree (advanced degree preferred) in clinical or scientific discipline.
- 5-7 years of relevant experience in clinical development (pharma, biotech, CRO).
- 5+ years of Lab (could be both Central and Specialty) experience is a must.
- Experience in managing clinical service providers and executing financial/legal agreements.
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders, including senior leaders, and influence changes when necessary.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to manage cross-functional and multi-cultural teams.
- Ability to adapt to complex and ambiguous environments while managing multiple priorities effectively.
Soft Skills Experience:- Ability to influence up/down.
- Strong time management, communication skills and ability to prioritize.
- Ability to work with diverse groups of stakeholders with different backgrounds and competing priorities.
- Creativity is another one, especially with issue management negotiation skills/experience is certainly a plus.
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.
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 adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
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