Director, WW Portfolio Strategy, WW Medical Cell Therapy

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Reporting to the Sr Director of WW Portfolio Strategy, this individual serves as the BMS strategic engagement lead with external stakeholders. This role requires an experienced and dynamic professional who is dedicated to building and managing key strategic relationships for all medical strategic purposes. This role is responsible for developing and leading the communication and insight generation strategy for relevant external stakeholders such as CAR T treaters, APPs, Professional Societies and Associations, and Patient Advocacy Groups. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cell therapy, excellent communication skills, and a passion for advocacy and external engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

External Engagement

• Develop and deliver presentations, reports, and other communication materials to external audiences.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with external partners, including high-profile academic institutions, industry leaders, professional societies, and community organizations to promote the company's interests and initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to influence policy and regulatory decisions.
• Engage with government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other advocacy groups to promote the company's interests.
• Develop and coordinate leadership engagements with key stakeholders at key leadership meetings and congresses
• Collaborate with congress management to ensure excellence in execution with congress strategies including internal and external communications and TLE management
• Collaborate with internal disease leads to ensure alignment on strategic medical initiatives
• Coordinate and participate in outreach activities, public relations events, and community engagement initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison between the company and external stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and information sharing.
• Build regular insights reporting for senior management to highlight key trends (US and ex-US)
• Collaborate with internal teams to create and implement innovative medicalstrategies for engaging with professional societies and patient advocacy groups.
• Serve as the primary point of contact within CT Medical for all interactions with professional societies and association – in strong alignment with Hem/Onc Professional Societies and AssociationLead
• Represent the company at conferences and workshops organized by professional societies and/or BMS
• Work in collaboration with Advocacy leads to drive medical strategy to align with asset teams within the current and pipeline portfolio

General Responsibilities

• Thoroughly understand the complex and evolving healthcare environment and landscape and ensure that all interactions and strategies are implemented accordingly and compliantly.
• Understand the mission and vision of each organization and serve as the primary relationship manager for professional societies’ community.
• Educate internal stakeholders about professional societies and the functional role.
• Shape strategic approaches to these organizations and work cross-functionally to ensure execution of plans.
• Maintain regular communication with professional societies and associations to remain current on all activities.
• Work extensively with BMS senior leaders across multiple departments to optimize interactions with professional societies and associations.
• Support activities both internally and externally, including processes and procedures.
• Contribute to optimizing internal and external society engagement procedural and operational best practices.
• Lead and align with internal stakeholders in determining company representation or participation in professional medical societies’/associations’ initiatives and interactions, including corporate roundtables, forums, and science/clinical interactions.
• Create appropriate budgets and monitor expenditures, revising as needed.
• Input data into the departmental financial tracking system as required.
• Provide periodic reports and analyses to leadership and team members as needed.
• Ensure all activities comply with company policy and legal and regulatory requirements.

Working Conditions

• This position may require 20% travel to attend meetings, conferences, and events.
• Occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8-10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or significant experience with stakeholder and organizational engagement or partnerships (public and/or private)
• BA/BS degree minimum requirement--in area relevant to pharmaceutical industry/ Life Sciences preferred) or advanced degree. Pharm.D., PhD, MD, MS with general knowledge of pharmaceutical operations, i.e., advocacy, medical affairs, clinical development, regulatory, commercialization,
• Understanding of drug development across the continuum from development to commercialization
• Strong interpersonal, public communication and negotiation skills
• Proven track record of managing complex interactions
• Experience with professional medical societies and associations preferred
• Able to innovate, analyze and solve problems with attention to detail
• Ability and willingness to travel globally
• In-depth understanding of the drug development process across the spectrums of development and commercialization
• Previous cross-functional experience is desirable as this position requires a high degree of interaction with teams encompassing Patient Advocacy, Medical Affairs, Research & Development, Commercialization, Corporate Affairs and other enterprise-wide teams
• Highly collaborative, possess a track record of building and maintaining cross-functional relationships, and able to communicate business topics effectively with senior management, peers, and others
• Ability to lead and represent the company and, where appropriate, to follow within a large complex organization and within small working teams

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