You’ll be in the room where decisions get made. Sitting on joint steering committees alongside senior leaders from BMS and our external partners, you’ll drive the conversations that shape outcomes for our pipeline – not just reporting on them.
You’ll protect the programme, not just the paperwork. By leading Virtual Development Operation Teams (VDOTs), you’ll hold external partners accountable for performance – ensuring timelines, quality, and commitments are met for real assets that real patients are waiting on.
You’ll build strategies that future‑prove our pipeline. Working alongside colleagues across PD, Quality, and Legal, you’ll help develop sourcing strategies that don’t just fill capacity gaps today, but bring in genuine innovation, bridge technology gaps, and set us up for tomorrow.
Your technical background will directly translate into commercial impact. You’ll be the one turning complex development requirements into Statements of Work, Master Service Agreements, and Request for Proposals – meaning your scientific fluency becomes a competitive advantage at the negotiating table.
You’ll own the full partner lifecycle. From first qualification through to decommissioning, you’ll steer vendor onboarding with Global Quality and GOEHSS – ensuring every external partner is set up for success from day one. 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 adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/ (https://careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility) eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
You likely have a degree in chemistry, pharmaceutical science, engineering, or a related discipline (BS, MS, or PhD), and at least five years of hands‑on experience in small molecule drug substance and drug product development, clinical or commercial manufacturing.
- Naturally builds trust – with colleagues, partners, and leadership
- Can hold a technical conversation with a formulation scientist and a legal team in the same afternoon
- Is comfortable leading teams who don’t directly report to you
- Keeps in mind that the best outcomes come from collaboration, not command
If you’ve ever found yourself thinking “I want to understand how the bigger picture fits together” – this role was built for people like you. Ready to shape what comes next?
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 at careers.bms.com/working-with-us. Your science doesn’t stop at our walls. You’ve spent years in the lab, in manufacturing suites, in development teams – understanding what it really takes to turn a molecule into a medicine. You know the complexity, the precision, and the stakes involved. Now imagine taking that expertise and using it to shape how BMS works with the world’s leading external partners to get life‑changing therapies to patients faster.
Let’s be honest – this isn’t just a step up. It’s a step out into a part of drug development that most scientists never get visibility into, but which underpins everything.
- Broaden your career horizon. Your scientific background becomes the foundation for a role that spans strategy, commercial negotiation, and operational leadership. Few roles offer this kind of cross‑functional breadth.
- See your work matter – at scale. The partnerships you manage directly support a portfolio of BMS assets moving through development and into manufacturing. The decisions you make have a direct line to patient impact.
- Build your leadership identity. Leading matrix teams, influencing without authority, and representing BMS in senior‑level governance forums – this is the environment where people become the kind of leader others want to follow.
- Gain commercial fluency without leaving science behind. You’ll negotiate terms, shape agreements, and develop sourcing strategies – all grounded in a scientific understanding that gives you instant credibility with internal and external stakeholders alike.
- Work at the frontier of external innovation. BMS’s external partner network isn’t just a capacity safety net – it’s a source of cutting‑edge technology and capability. You’ll have a front‑row seat to what’s emerging across the CDMO landscape.
At BMS, we’re driven by a single mission – to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. The partnerships you manage in this role are a critical part of making that happen.
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