Vice President Safety Evidence and Sciences

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Position Title: Vice President, Safety Evidence & Sciences

Position Summary

The Worldwide Patient Safety group is responsible for ensuring the safety of our medicines globally. The Safety Evidence and Sciences team is responsible for pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology deliverables such as signal detection, aggregate reporting, structured benefit-risk assessment and risk management strategy for assets in development and on market. Additionally, this team is continually transforming to address new regulation and evolving global data and analytics challenges requiring the development of capabilities to enhance the efficiency, analytical capabilities, and process enablement associated with planning, strategy, and execution of safety aggregate reports, epidemiology studies, risk management plans, and signal detection to ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversees a team of safety scientists, REMS and risk management scientists, epidemiologists, and structured benefit risk assessment experts.

• Oversees the pharmacoepidemiology study strategy, design, and execution (eg, PASS and PMR studies)

• Oversees REMS and Global Risk Management strategy, planning and execution

• Oversees processes and execution of safety aggregate reports, risk management, and signal detection

Qualifications & Experience

• Doctoral degree (eg, MD or PhD) with relevant career experience preferred

• Minimum 15 years pharmaceutical experience.

• Preferred: Experience in clinical research, observational research, International regulatory experience

• Demonstrated ability and experience leading high-performing teams in a highly matrixed and collaborative environment

• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams of scientists across numerous disciplines across all therapeutic areas

• Expert knowledge of pharmacovigilance as well as emerging trends/directions in pharmacovigilance

• Expert knowledge of analytics, epidemiology and/or statistics related to the execution of signal detection, risk management, and post market non-interventional safety studies

• Ability to lead both strategic, scientific teams and operational, process teams toward common goals

• Ability to advise and direct senior drug development leaders on evaluation of safety concerns and minimization of patient risk throughout the life cycle of a drug product

• Capable of influencing in a complex matrix environment and exhibiting productive matrix behaviors as a role model for their employees.

• Excellent ability to communicate, specifically on scientific topics

• Able to integrate knowledge and experience in multiple domains (e.g. pharmacovigilance, risk management, drug regulations, drug development)

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $393,000 - $462,000, 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 Career 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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